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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 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…
Custom jawline implants offer an unparalleled ability to reshape the entire jawline and the lower face. Combining chin and jaw angle augmentation in a connected fashion can have a powerful effect given the surface area of the lower jaw that it covers. Because of this surface area coverage even small amounts of implant thickness create Read More…
Background: Chin implant augmentation is the most commonly performed of all facial implants. The procedure has been done for over fifty years and, as a result, a wide variety of chin implant styles have been developed. While often named after the surgeon who developed them (which is not particularly helpful in understanding what they are Read More…
Background: Large amounts of weight loss is a very positive benefit to one’s health when needed. But the tradeoff for this medical and often needed benefit is the unaesthetic sequelae of loose skin. How significant this new problem is depends on many factors including the amount of weight loss, patient’s age, natural quality of their Read More…
Fat injections have become the modern day equivalent in plastic surgery of the ‘magic bullet’. Like antibiotics over 75 years ago (although not quite that dramatic) fat injections have become widely used for a variety of problems in plastic surgery from treating radiation-damaged tissues to cosmetic augmentations of the face and body. Clinical successes 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...