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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...
While reshaping of the nose is permanently done by a surgical rhinoplasty, temporary changes can be achieved with injectable fillers. While an injectable or non-surgical rhinoplasty can not accomplish the diverse number of changes that surgery can do, it can be effective in specific augmentative nose changes. Fillers work well for increasing tip projection, eliminating Read More…
Jaw angle implants are most commonly placed through an intraoral approach without visible external scars. With bilateral posterior vestibular incisions that are up out on the cheek opposite the 2nd molar tooth, subperiosteal dissection is done to elevate the masseter muscle off of the bone. Depending upon the type of jaw angle implant being used, Read More…
Bony jaw reduction consists of different techniques in the location and extent of lower facial reshaping than does masseter muscle reduction. Known as jaw shaving, jaw contouring, or most commonly V-line surgery, this collection of procedures removes bone from the length of the lower jaw to change its shape and size. Jaw bone reshaping can Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the lower jaw is traditionally done by standard chin and jaw angle implants. While effective in properly selected patients, standard implants are not ideal when jaw asymmetry exists. Standard jaw implants are best thought of as ‘spot’ methods of augmentation that work well when the three corners (chin and two jaw angles) Read More…
Rhinoplasty is one of the oldest procedures in plastic surgery as the well understood term ‘nosejob’ implies. One of the most basic maneuvers in this surgery is the reduction of a hump to achieve a straighter dorsal profile. Most techniques to reduce a hump are from the ‘top down’ by excision and the nasal bones Read More…
Occipital knob skull reduction is an aesthetic head reshaping procedure that removes a prominent inion. The inion is the small knob of bone that exists in everyone at the bottom of the occipital bone in the center to which the superficial neck muscle fibers attach. In some people, more commonly men, this knob of bone Read More…
Augmentation of the central midface generally refers to increasing the projection of the bony pyriform rim. This is the central maxillary bone that surrounds the large nasal cavity opening that lies underneath the external nose. It is most commonly referred to as the paranasal region. Its shape into the surrounding midface has either a flatter Read More…
Jaw reduction is a generic term for a variety of lower facial reshaping procedures. Often lumped into one general category, the reality is that a variety of bone and muscle reshaping procedures are available to create a lower jaw that appears more narrow or slimmer. While these jaw reduction procedures are done for largely an Read More…
While custom jawline or jaw wraparound implants produce the most dramatic changes of the lower face, they face challenges in both their design and placement. How they should be best designed to achieve a patient’s desired jaw shape is both an art and a science. There are specific guidelines that I use based both on Read More…
The Golden Ratio is a well known mathematical concept that has long been described as an essential component of beauty in nature. It is a controversial concept in terms of whether it truly exists in whatever one is studying whether it is anatomy or architecture. The Golden Ratio concept has been recently applied to the 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...