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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Rib removal (or more commonly partial 10th/11th/12th rib resection for waist narrowing) and buttock augmentation can be combined in a single operation, but whether it is advisable depends on the specific buttock procedure and the patient’s anatomy, operative time, and risk profile. Key considerations: Positioning: Rib resection is usually performed with the patient prone or Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is most commonly performed by fat injections, reserving implants for non-candidates or inadequate BBL results. While these buttock enhancement approaches apply to both women and men there are some gender differences. While men can do like women synthetic fillers and fat injections they often are less tolerant of procedures that require multiple Read More…
While buttock implants will never be used at the same frequency as that of fat injections (BBL surgery) for buttock augmentation, they do play a useful role in this form of body contouring surgery. Their role is when inadequate fat is available for BBL surgery and when fat injections have proven inadequate for the desired Read More…
Buttock augmentation is a popular and commonly performed aesthetic body contouring procedure. Because it can be done by multiple different methods, it is probably best thought of as a menu of treatment option as the name alone does not convey which technique or techniques is being used. Enhancing the shape of the buttocks is primarily Read More…
Background: The intergluteal cleft is a well recognized feature of the buttocks and is more commonly known as the ‘butt crack’. It is the linear groove between the buttocks that extends from the top[ fo the sacrum down to the perineum. Anatomically it represents the medial border of the gluteus maximum muscle attachments to the Read More…
The Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL), which is fat transfer to the buttocks by injection, is one of the most popular body contouring procedures in the U.S.. Despite its popularity and effectiveness at enlarging the buttocks, it is also the most dangerous of all aesthetic plastic surgery procedures. It has a risk of causing pulmonary embolism Read More…
Buttock augmentation has evolved over the last two decades in two different volumetric treatment approaches. Injectable fat grafting has become the most common method of buttock augmentation due to the combined benefits of reductive body contouring and gluteal enlargement. Concurrently, buttock implant techniques have evolved with intramuscular pocket locations and improved implant materials and sizes Read More…
Buttock augmentation by fat injections (Brazilian Butt Lift) is one of the fastest growing body contouring procedures over the past decade. By combining a reductive liposuction harvest with recycling of that fat into an immediate buttock augmentation effect accounts for its popularity. But as the autologous procedure has become commonplace, complications have occurred that are Read More…
When fat injections are not an option for buttock augmentation, or have not been successful, implants are the sole remaining treatment option. When choosing buttock implants there are three fundamental decisions a patient has to make, implant size, implant shape (style) and tissue pocket location. While pocket location and implant size have a somewhat fixed Read More…
The intergluteal cleft, more commonly known as the ‘crack’, is the attached skin that forms a groove between the two buttocks. It is very similar to the breasts with the attached skin to the sternum forming a cleavage line in the chest between the breasts. The interglueal cleft is approximately 9 to 11 cms long Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...