Dr. Jennifer Walden is the first plastic surgeon in Austin to use the VECTRA 3D system. "It's an exciting new technology that can really help with preoperative planning, managing patient expectations and showing prospective patients what they will look like before the first incision is even made," said Walden. "Before we could do very little. We could show before and afters to patients. We could morph or change the two-dimensional profile view and take the bump off a nose for example, but we couldn't change the entire nose in three-dimensions and show that result to a patient."

VECTRA 3D allows Dr. Walden to alter the image in 3-D, thus giving prospective patients a more realistic view of what they'll look like after surgery -- from multiple viewpoints at that.