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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...
Background: Breast augmentation can be successfully done in any female regardless if their body size or weight. But the body frame and habits of the patient does play a role in some of the finer details of the aesthetic outcome. It is no surprise that in very thin female that they frequently have little to Read More…
As the popularity of buttock augmentation has soared over the past decade, the need for hip augmentation has also arisen. No form of buttock augmentation, whether it is by implants or fat injections, can successfully provide substantial hip augmentation. Buttock implants certainly can not regardless of whether they are even placed in the subfascial tissue Read More…
Forehead reshaping consists of a variety of augmentative and reductive procedures to affect on overall appearance change. In some cases they were done together but, more times than not, they are done as isolated forehead augmentation or forehead reduction procedures. Bony reduction can be done on the brow bones and the frontal bone of the Read More…
Infections of facial implants is always a concern although fortunately their occurrence is fairly low. (1% to 2%) This potential risk is no less so with custom facial implants and, from some perspectives, may be even greater. This can theoretically be because many custom implants are bigger in size and may require multiple incisions to Read More…
The vertical height of the upper face (forehead) is classically known as being one-third of the total vertical height of the face. While a long forehead skin distance is described as greater than 10mm of the mid facial height or more than 6.5cms between the eyebrows and the hairline, in the end all that matters Read More…
One of the considerations of the soft tissue aesthetics of the lower face is that of the masseter muscle. Being one of the larger muscles of the face, it has a large surface area covering the bony jaw angles. (ramus of the mandible) Despite its important functions of jaw opening and closing and in chewing Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies a full one-third of the face’s surface area. Its borders are the hair-bearing areas of the frontal hairline superiorly, the eyebrows inferiorly and the temporal hairline laterally. The frontal hairline determines the vertical length of the forehead. The eyebrows provide facial expression and create a emotional appearance. The forehead bone determines Read More…
Background: While chin augmentation is commonly performed and numerous implants styles and sizes exist to perform it, the patient’s gender should have an influence in the process. While men tend to prefer stronger and more square chin augmentation results, most women prefer a more subtler result with less augmentation and a rounder or even tapered Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants have proven to be a reliable method of treating a wide variety of head shape issues. In their preoperative design considerable thought goes into how to best achieve the patient’s desired outcome. But despite this design effort, no one can accurately predict the outcome and how the patient will perceive their Read More…
Background: Nasal fractures are common and most frequently cause mediolateral bone displacements from an oblique force from the side. These are repaired in a straightforward fashion by relocating the nasal bones in a reverse direction that the injury has caused. This approach can be successful due to the underlying support of the maxilla and orbital 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...