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Q: Dr. Eppley, I have an weird forehead. It has that I mainly have a brow as a man and it also has horns (exotosis) I was wondering if you do such surgery to fix this/shave down my skull to get me a desired smooth forehead as a female should have. I also have a […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am just enquiring about getting my head wider. I have a fairly thin head and want it wider. Is that possible? A: When it comes to widening faces, most of the narrowing that I see is in the temporal regions from the lateral orbital wall  back into the temporal muscle above […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in getting some volume back in my face. I lost a fair amount of weight over the past two years and my face has become quite gaunt. After doing a lot of reading, I know that there are the options of either some type of injectable filler or using […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I took a look at the computer imaging that you did for me for my jawline. I like what you did to the chin but don’t like the jaw angle result. I saw a case of a guy onlione who had custom made jaw angle implants done and he did not had […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I weighed around 95 pounds before I had ovarian cancer.  After my cancer treatments, I gained 130 pounds.  I ended up have gastric bypass surgery and now have lose skin that needs to be taken off. Had a tummy tuck in 2001 so, don’t have too much loose skin in the tummy […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in the lipodissolve or liposmart for underneath my chin and abdomen area. I have excess skin and fat due to having a child. I am still a thin female, but have insecurity in these areas and feel these procedures would benefit me the most in regards to my weight […]

Q: Dr. Eppley,  I have concerns about my nose and I focus on it all the time. I think (know) my nose is too pointy at the tip and people confuse me as if I am Native American. I could see why. What can be done to make my nose less pointy? A: In looking […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I would like to reshape my chin. My chin doesn’t stick out, it just looks boxed look especially when I started losing weight. Also my ears don’t stick out, I feel they look big as in length for my small head. What do you recommend? I have a front and side picture […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, about 4 years ago upon a surgeons recommendation, I got infraorbital implants. Shortly afterward, I noticed a “bulge” underneath my eyes. I am not sure if the implants need to be removed or if this is a case of my cheeks dropping and my own bones would have produced the same appearance. I […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Is it possible to place the wing of a chin implant separately from the front part of the implant by cutting it loose? On one side of the jawline my implant wing crosses the bone and sticks out. My jawline is asymmetric and is higher on one side. On the higher side […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I had a facelift about six weeks ago. This was a very traumatic experience for me. While my jowls and neck got better, my nasal folds and turned down corners of the mouth did not. They initially looked good while I was still swollen but that has now all gone away. This […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I have deep nasolabial folds and a mouth whose corners turn down. I have read about a way to improve them by using your own tissue through grafting. I had a facelift already which got rid of my jowls and helped my neck but didn’t do a thing for the area around […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hello, I’m a 19 year old male. I recently cut my hair short and to my surprise, I have a very Neanderthal-esque brow ridge. It doesn’t stick out as far as some people from pictures I’ve seen, just a couple of millimeters probably. I was wondering if there was any alternatives to […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am 32 year old and about six months ago an ENT specialist diagnosed me with having a deviated septum. I have not had good sleep in about 15 years, because I have extremely restricted breathing. I do have insurance to cover the surgery but would prefer a plastic surgeon to perform […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a mastopexy/abdominoplasty (mommy makeover) in future years. So that I have an idea about cost, I would love to know the extend of the incisions that I would need, i.e., anchor incision and full vs crescent incision with partial tummy tuck. I am 5 pounds from my ideal […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a 32 year-female with a chin issue. My chin doesn’t look too bad when I’m not smiling because I have a large nose so it is somewhat in balance.  However when I smile, I have excess soft tissue that almost looks like cellulite on my chin and it then sticks […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a healthy 65 year-old women with a large turkey-like hanging directly under my chin as well a bit of jowls. When I pull the skin back at the jaw angle/ear area, I see a great change and I look like myself again…like I did 20 years ago. What type of […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to have my buffalo hump liposuction along with my neck done at the same time. As I have gotten older the buffalo hump and bad posture have made my spine curve a bit. The hump is really visible when I straighten my back and when you feel it you can […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a 45 year-old female and I have concerns about my jaw line. I have attached some pictures and we would like to have your opinion on what would be some treatment options. I would like to have a return of firmness to my jawline. A: In regards to early onset […]

Q: Dr. Eppley,  I had fracture of my cheekbone and eyesocket and four plates with eight screw were implant in my face…………..I want to ask can I remove these plates once if my fracture got healed??……Will there be any problem of refracture or any another problem after plate removal?? A: It sounds like you have […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Has you ever successfully micropigmented a donor strip scar from a hair transplant? A: In my experience, it is virtually impossible to match skin colors with micropigmentation tattoos. There is always going to be some color mismatch. But your specific situation in the scalp is unique. There are two approaches you could […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a 27 year-old Asian female who would like to change the shape of my nose. I have a low nasal bridge and a flat tip of my nose with low projection. I would like to get my nose more Westernized with a higher bridge and more tip projection. I have […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I read this article on bone erosion from chin implants and wanted to make sure I understood it. I am a 28 year old male and have been debating getting a chin implant for awhile now. What I got out of the article is that the bone structure in the chin is […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a young man with a skull that is flat at the back. It has caused me a lot of grief as a teenager and to this day and I think it’s time I did something about it so I can stop being so extremely subconscious about it. I have attached […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to lift the eyebrows of the forehead area and reduce the protrusion of the forehead bone but I don’t want a coronal incision to do it. I need minimal incisions as I am a male. A:  Browlift surgery in a male is a challenge due to the hair issue or […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I had a single cardio bypass done last fall. My doctors failed to notice that my sternum was not healing together. The doctor who performed the surgery knew ahead of time that I have EDS with sublexes of all joints, discs and sternum. Because of the surgery I am still being told […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am a 31 year-old male interested in chest reshaping. I have large man boob and pointy tits. I am specifically interested in the SmartLipo or VaserLipo male breast reduction. How many surgeries have been performed? Do you offer a consultation by video chat? It’s a pretty long drive to come into […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I don’t know what they call this defect but my ears are too far back like Paul McCartneys. They don’t stick out, just too far back, the whole canal. Is there a surgery to move everything or just cover the ears? A: There is no surgery to move the ear forward. The […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Is it possible to reduce the size of a skull/head when it is too big? My head has a circumference of 23.6 inch/60cm. I have attached pictures of where I would reduce the skull to give it a better shape. A: Thank you for sending the computer imaging showing the areas of […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I had a Medpor chin implant placed 3 years ago and now there is an exposure of the right corner of my implant. I know I have to remove it but my concern how I will look afterwards if it is removed. I like my look with the chin implant but now […]