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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 shape of the tip of the nose is one of the modifiable areas in rhinoplasty. With the visibility offered with an open technique, the tip cartilages can be resected, sutured and cartilage grafted to achieve a new tip shape. One of the most common requested tip changes is for increased rotation particularly amongst female Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is largely determined by the underlying bone. This is certainly true from the brow bones back to the nuchal ridge on the bsck of the head. This is less true on the sides of the head where the temporalis muscle makes a significant part of its thickness. But the Read More…
The forehead occupies one-third of the surface area of the face so it no surprise that it has an influence on the shape and appearance of the face. The movement of the eyebrows and the forehead wrinkles that it creates allows for a lot of expression to be seen even though at rest it is Read More…
Background: As a projecting structure from the side of the head with a funnel-like and flexible attachment, the ear can withstand a wide variety of deforming forces. Its very flexibility protects it from injury when exposed to shearing forces. Like a palm tree in high winds its ability to bend is a protective mechanism. But Read More…
The lack of a well defined upper eyelid crease in combination with an epicanthal fold is the most common aesthetic Asian eyelid ‘deformity’. I put the word deformity in parentheses because it is very common to have a monolid in Asians and it is not really a true deformity in the biologic sense. But it Read More…
Background: As a projecting facial structure the ear is exposed to a variety of traumatic insults. One such type of traumatic ear injury is that of burns. Most commonly occurring in house and other entrapped fire situations, the sustained exposure to high heat often causes a melted ear appearance. The anterior exposed ear surface often Read More…
Background: Custom jawline implants are usually the best surgical method for changing the 3D shape of the lower face. Through a computer-designing process an implant can be designed to cover jaw angle to jaw angle crossing the chin in the middle. Covering such a large bony surface area, even when the dimensions of the implant Read More…
Fat grafting is the primary surgical technique to soft tissue augmentation of the face. The addition of fat cells has the potential to add retained volume while the presence of adipose-derived stem cells offers the opportunity for tissue regeneration. Such tissue regenerative effects may be able to be seen in the overlying skin with an Read More…
The thickness of the nasal skin has a well known important influence on the outcome of rhinoplasty. Such skin thickness can have either be a favorable or an unfavorable effect on the eventual shape of the nose. By far surgeons would much rather have thinner skin but there is no avoiding the thick-skinned rhinoplasty patient Read More…
Rhinoplasty surgery produces an expected amount of swelling and bruising based on the extent of the surgery. Like all facial surgeries the swelling and bruising is temporary and takes time go resolve. The swelling from rhinoplasty, however, is well known to be prolonged and is most manifest in the tip area. The tip swelling can 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...