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Charles H. Thorne MD is plastic surgeon practicing in New York City (Manhattan) for 20 years. His expertise is performing surgery and taking care of patients. A teacher and author in Plastic Surgery, he is best known for his clinical practice among surgeons is in specialized areas of Cosmetic and Reconstructive surgery such as Ear Reconstruction and Pediatric Plastic Surgery.
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Post-Pregnancy Surgery
Pregnancy and breast-feeding often take their toll on the mother’s body, resulting in excess abdominal skin with stretch marks and sagging, deflated breasts.Plastic Surgical procedures can help with these demoralizing changes.Timing. It is generall...
Tear Trough and Lid/Cheek Junction
Discussion: continuation....According to Codner and Ford, the tear trough deformity overlies the muscular triangle formed by the orbicularis pculi, the lavtor labii superioris, and the levator alaeque nasi muscles. They also point out that, with age,...
Tear Trough and Lid/Cheek Junction
DISCUSSION: continuation.... Loeb described three theoretical malformations that cause what he termed the nasojugal groove. These include (1) fixation of the orbital septum at the level of the inferomedial portion of the arcus marginalis; (2) the exi...
Tear Trough and Lid/Cheek Junction
RESULTS: Continuation....Although the anatomy of the tear trough and its lateral continuation, the lid/cheek junction, were identical in the subcutaneous plane, this was not the case deep to the orbicularis. Rather, the palpebral portion of the orbi...
Tear Trough and Lid/Cheek Junction
RESULTS: All cadavers were older than 50 years. There was no distinction between the anatomy of the tear trough and the adjacent lid/cheek junction in the subcutaneous plane. Rather, they were continuous and correlated in every case with the junction...
Tear Trough and Lid/Cheek Junction
METHODS: Twelve fresh cadaver lower lid and midface dissections were performed (six heads; three male three female cadavers). The ages of the cadavers were noted, the anatomical components of the region were examined, and photographs were taken. Diss...

