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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: Augmenting skull or head shape deficiencies used to be fairly impractical. The traditional method of cranioplasty surgery involved long scalp incisions and the tedious application of bone cements to add shape to the head. Besides the scar there was a very high rate of contour irregularities and a lack of adequate augmentation effect. This Read More…
The chin occupies the most prominent part of the lower third of the face. This is why it is the subject of many different chin reshaping options. The most common dimensional chin change is one of an increased horizontal projection. This can be done using either an implant or an advancement bony genioplasty, each with Read More…
Custom skull implants have become in my practice an effective and low risk strategy for many aesthetic skull shape concerns. Compared to any other implant used above the shoulders, skull implants are comparatively large which is appropriate given the size of the skull. But a small implant just isn’t going to work for many head Read More…
Brow bone reduction is a well known aesthetic procedure for reducing the horizontal projection of the lower forehead. Done by either burring for minor changes or an osteoplastic bone flap setback technique for more major setbacks, the horizontal position of the brow and/or its convex shape can be reduced. But no matter what brow bone Read More…
Silicone breast implants have been back in clinical use for the past decade. While there are various features of these implants, such as the gel composition and the characteristics of the enveloping shell, that get a lot of attention one overlooked feature is that of implant fill. This refers to how much the enveloping shell Read More…
Background: Reshaping of the central part of the face is done by changes to the nose and lips. Whether through a rhinoplasty or various lip augmentations or lifts, the shape of these two midline facial structures have a major influence on one’s appearance whether it is seen from the front or side views. Rhinoplasty and Read More…
Brow bone reduction is done for a variety of reasons in both men and women. While the primary objective is to reduce an overlying prominent brow protrusion, there are differences in why it is done and the technique used to achieve it. In men reduction of the brow bone is done to get rid of Read More…
Background: While skull surgery has been around for more than a century, such surgeries have been done for reconstructive reasons to replace missing portions or correct significant congenital skull shape deformities. Aesthetic skull surgery, however, is much more recent and consists of reducing prominent bony areas or improving its shape through augmentation materials. The use Read More…
Patients desiring changes to the nose and reshaping of the upper lip are common. Nose changes are done by a variety of rhinoplasty techniques and lip changes accomplished by augmentations or surgical lifts. One of these uplifting lip procedures is the well known subnasal lip lift. Because it is done by an excision of tissue Read More…
Many parts of the body suffer sagging or loose skin from the effects of aging and gravity. The tissues above moveable extremity joints (knees and elbows), however, has the added influence of motion across the joint with flexion to an arc of up to 120 degrees. As a result the stretching of the soft tissue 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...