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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...
Rhinoplasty surgery is an osteocartilaginous operation, meaning changes are made to the bone and cartilage supporting structures. Ultimately the final aesthetic results is in how these changes are done and how much they show through the overlying skin as it shrinks and contracts around the reshaped nasal framework. Such osteocartilaginous framework changes can be done Read More…
The zygomatic arch is the thin section of bone that connects the main body of the cheek (zygoma) with that of the skull. (temporal skull) Thus it is formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal bone that comes forward to meet with the temporal process of the cheekbone. They meet in the middle to Read More…
Background: While the ears are on the opposite sides of the head and can only be simultaneously viewed in the front view, this does not mean that people don’t care about ear asymmetries. The ears can be asymmetric for a lot of different reasons from how much they stick out to differences in their size Read More…
Background: The presence of a discernible brow bone is a classic male forehead feature. The existence of a brow bone break, where the edge of the underlying frontal sinus development stops and the flatter forehead begins, is what separates men from most females. How significant this brow bone break should be in men, which is Read More…
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty becoming a nose reshaping operation with more predictable outcomes took a major step with the introduction of an open rhinoplasty approach. Being able to see the cartilage and bone structures that are to be manipulated offers an obvious aesthetic advantage. And to do so with a negligible columellar scar adds Read More…
Background: The ear is comprised of many individual shapes created by the shape of the underlying cartilage. It is unclear as to the functional significance of many of these cartilage prominences. But the most anterior one, the tragus, has a clear functional role in the deflection of sound waves back into the external auditory canal. Read More…
Poland syndrome is a well known chest wall deformity that always has some degree of underdevelopment of the pectoralis muscle. With the muscle deformity displacement of the nipple superiorly usually occurs as well potential underlying ribcage abnormalities. Many variations in the expression of Poland syndrome occur with other potential deformities of the shoulder, arm and Read More…
The original temporal implant, now known as style 1, was designed to treat the temporal hollowing that is located to the side of the eye. This ‘orbital’ temporal area is always the deepest part of any temporal concavity and is the most common location for aesthetic temporal hollowing. In looking at the shape of the Read More…
Background: The traditional approach to total jawline augmentation has been the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. While this ‘three-point’ approach can be effective in the properly selected patient, it is fraught with potential aesthetic sequelae such as implant asymmetries and an inability to achieve the desired jawline shape outcome. This is somewhat Read More…
The permanent treatment for temporal hollowing is a solid soft muscle implant that lies under the temporalis fascia. Such temporal implants currently exist in two styles based on the zone of temporal augmentation needed. The orbital temporal implant (style 1) fills in the typical location of temporal hollowing done at the level lateral to that 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...