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Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in breast lift surgery. I have severe ptosis of my breasts. I had weight loss surgery in 2012 and my breasts turned into nothing but skin! I am let with extremely saggy breast.s I assume I need a reduction and then implants because my breast tissue is non existent […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in skull reshaping surgery. My head shape is not normal. It is flat from the back side and inclined backward at the forehead making it smaller on the top as a whole. My face is not much wider as well resulting in a small head. I want to increase […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in chin cleft removal surgery. The deepest part of my cleft is at the very top. Ironically, the deepest part at the top goes down to the bone, which is not a valley but a peak at this part of the cleft.  So the top is strictly due to the positioning […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in rhinoplasty and chin reduction surgeries. I am very unhappy with the profile of my face. I feel it looks very masculine. I do have a twisted nose and large tip. I feel my nose doesn’t fit in with my face and looks rather big when I start to […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, What is the recovery time for liposuction? I was looking to have liposuction done on my stomach, upper back, thigh and  bottom area.  I am not sure what type of liposuction would be right for me. I am 38 years old, eat healthy and exercise, but I can’t seem to tone those […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I was wondering if you could take a look at the attached photos and see if I am a good candidate for umbilicoplasty to achieve a typical “innie”. I have been told by my general practitioner and another cosmetic surgeon I do not have a hernia (they made me cough and felt […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m looking to get buttock implants. I am very small framed (5’0” and 105 lbs) and wanted to know what should I get for my size? A: When you get buttock implants, they should almost always be placed in the intramuscular space to lower the risk of long term problems. While above […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in getting chin and jaw angle implants.I want to be an actor, and I have always been considered attractive however I feel that I need to have a wider jawline like Brad Pitt or Stephen Amell as well as a chin implant in order to balance out a bit […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I was interested in a chin reduction surgery, perhaps rhinoplasty (although I really don’t mind my nose). I am very comfortable with my appearance, and don’t mind it much although I find my chin to be too large! I think I would be much more attractive and feminine if I had a […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a facial scar revision. My facial scar is three years old and is the result of a sharp tool attack. It was thinner after the attack but has grown considerably larger with time. It also appears more indented now. What are my scar revision options to make it […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a tummy tuck which is needed after my bariatric surgery. After my bariatric surgery I’ve had this horrible itching and burning under my skin flap over my c-section scars. Do you thing my insurance would help pay for me to get a tummy tuck? I am too embarrassed […]

Q: Dr. Eppley,  I am interested in getting some information on scar revision. My daughter has a lip scar from an injury 5 months ago. Is there anything that can be done to fix the misalignment of the vermilion border and to minimize the white scars on the red part of the lip? Attached are […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I would like to have a forehead augmentation. I am a female and have a small feminine-type forehead and would like a bigger more masculine forehead, one that is much more convex in shape. It is very clear to me now that the women I find the most beautiful almost all have […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m interested in abdominal scar revision. I’m a 35 year old female who has a very big scar on my abdomen from an open surgery on my pancreas (Whipple procedure) done six months ago due to chronic pancreatitis and necrotizing pancreatitis. You can see where the staples were on the scar as […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I have stretch marks covering most of the center of my abdomen. They are about two years old. I am curious about the pricing of your fractional CO2 laser resurfacing as well as recommendations for the best type of treatment or any other suggestions. A: When it comes to treating stretch marks, […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I have a lot of  facelift questions for you. Which ‘full facelift’ technique do you offer? Do you offer the deep plane composite facelift technique with a 80% vertical pull and 20% lateral pull? I see on your website that most of your pulling is towards the ear. Doesn’t this result in a […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I have a question concerning using injectable fillers in the jawline. I’m considering doing a jaw implant, not so much to widen the jaw but to lengthen the jawline down in the vertical direction. I know that injectable fillers (such as Juvederm Voluma) is a great option when it comes to widening […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Could you tell me when diced cartilage injections are recommended in rhinoplasty?  Five years ago I received a septal cartilage graft on my nasal dorsum but there remains a little gap on the side of the dorsum between the eyes. Could a diced cartilage injection resolves my problem? Does it need a […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’ve been looking into cranial augmentation and it has led me to  here. You seem to have a lot of experience in the matter so I have a few questions. I have flatness in the back of my head and also a hump on the top of my head. If you look […]

Q: Dr. Eppley,I am interested in a testicular implant.  I’ am 24 years old and I have monorchism. When I was in grade school my older brothers thought it was funny to tell  every one and this humiliation as stuck with me my whole life. They called me “Half a Man” or “UniBall”. It was […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I had a rhinoplasty combined with orbital and maxillary osteotomies on me. I am wondering if it is possible to completely or partially reverse the osteotomies specially the orbital ones. In my picture you see how there is a bone that sort of curves from the eyebrow to the eye corner and […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in pubic liposuction. I have an enlarged mons pubis and always have. It sticks out, is soft and doughy and protrudes further than my stomach. I wonder if my pelvic bones are at the wrong angle. My mound has really no sensation which I assume is because it is […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in skull augmentation I was wondering if you ever use an inflatable under the crown of skull to inflate skin so you can have more room to shape head? My niece needed an inflatable on her leg when she was young, which they used when they removed cancerous skin. […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I need help in figuring out the best way to enhance facial volume. I have hollowing under my eyes and would like a stronger jawline. I had cheek implants placed two years which have done great so am looking for similar impact on my other facial areas. But I’m not sure what […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am inquiring about skull reduction surgery. I have read online said that you can reduce the head. I have always been very conscious about how wide my head Is. It’s wide and big. What can you do exactly? May I send you some pics so you see what I am talking […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in skull reshaping surgery. I am a 35 year old female who is concerned about head size and shape. My head is wide and big overall. Especially, the top and the sides of parietal bone are bulged so that it is really difficult to find hats to wear. I […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, two years ago I had jaw advancement and sliding genioplasty surgery. Although my face symmetry has improved dramatically, this surgery has left me with lower lip incompetence. There is a 5mm to7mm gap between my top and lower lip when my lips are in resting phase, and although I have no evident […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am concerned about my lack of volume and height in the back of my head. In order to achieve a more normal look, I am considering the two step  occipital augmentation process with the tissue expander. Would this require me to take a month off of work? Have people been happy […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I received Botox injections for migraine headaches once and they did not give me relief, If the injections did not give me relief…then would migraine surgery not give me relief as well? A: Botox is usually used as an indicator of success for the actual migraine surgery. When the Botox test is […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’ve read two things regarding facial attractiveness. 1) The middle third and lower third of the face should be roughly equal in size (my middle third is 224 and my lower 216) 2) The lower third can be divided into three sections and the top section, the upper lip, should equal 1/3 […]