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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...
The use of injectable fillers has a wide variety of aesthetic uses throughout the face. They provide a non-surgical approach to facial augmentation and in some cases are a good substitute for surgery, albeit often on a temporary basis. The appeal to the patients is that they obviously avoid surgery and even if it is Read More…
Tip projection is an important part of the nasal shape that can be changed in tip rhinoplasty surgery. Tip projection is different than tip rotation as the former pulls the tip of the nose away from the face while the latter changes the axis of the tip point around the sagittal plane of the face. Read More…
Rhinoplasty remains a consistently popular aesthetic facial procedure because it fundamentally works and is capable of making significant facial appearance improvements. While it is not a perfect operation and it has its own risk of the need for revision procedures, it is associated with high patient satisfaction scores. The interesting question is what changes of Read More…
Septal perforations occur for a variety of reasons, most commonly from septorhinoplasty surgery, trauma and chronic cocaine use. They are difficult reconstructive challenges because of limited surgical access, the difficulty of mobilizing tissues in a tight space and the need for at least a two layer closure of them. If this were a full-thickness Read More…
Significant nasal augmentation is needed in certain ethic aesthetic rhinoplasties as well as in reconstruction of saddle nose deformities that have occurred for a variety of reasons. To be effective such augmentations requires the material needed to do it. In most cases the augmentation material of choice comes down to either a rib graft or Read More…
Rhinoplasty is capable of changing many features of the nose based on bone and cartilage manipulations. And while the shape of the nostrils is influenced by cartilage changes at the nasal tip, not all aspects of the appearance of the nostrils can be so changed. While the width of the nostrils is not necessarily influenced Read More…
The plunging nasal tip deformity is a dynamic aesthetic issue that occurs when smiling. The tip actively moves down when smiling due to the combined actions of the muscles around the nasal base. As a result transection of the septi nasi muscle is commonly recommended done its treatment. In the April 2018 issue of the Read More…
Rhinoplasty is known to be a complex operation in which it is not easy to always get a completely predictable result. This is because there are a large number of anatomic components to the nose that interconnect and establishing harmony and proportions between them as they are changed by the trauma of surgical intervention can Read More…
For major nasal augmentations the options come to using a rib graft or an implant to achieve it. Each augmentation method has their own advantages and disadvantages and one isn’t necessarily better than the other. Each patient situation must be assessed on an individual basis in terms of amount of augmentation needed and the patient’s Read More…
Background: The shape of the nose has clear gender differences and preferences. Most of these are classically known and are also influenced by ethnicity, culture and age of the patient. By contemporary beauty trends that are highly influenced by social media, many young females today are seeing very small and refined noses. They will often 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...