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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: The smile is one of the most important forms of facial expression. The perception of the entire face changes as soon as one sees someone smile. But the time when one is smiling is far more limited than when one is expressionless. While an expressionless face is supposed to convey no emotion that is Read More…
Hip augmentation is most commonly done using fat injections. Even for patients that do not have a lot of fat to harvest, enough can almost always be obtained to fill in indentations or divots on both sides of the hips. But when combined buttock and hip augmentations are needed or in a thin body type, Read More…
Injectable fillers are the most common method used today for a wide variety of facial volumizing effects. Ideal for patients that want an immediate result that avoids surgery, the selection of almost twenty different fillers provides a filler type for every patient’s needs. Despite these advantages injectable fillers have one major downside…lack or persistence. Despite Read More…
Background: While cleft lip and palate is a widely recognized orofacial deformity, it is less commonly appreciated that it has a wide spectrum of presentations. It occurs in basic categories of combined cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft lip and isolated cleft palate, but every possible variation in between these basic categories occurs. Its Read More…
Buttock augmentation is most commonly done using fat injections. Known by the term, Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL for short, large volume fat injections can be done to increase buttock size over a broad surface area. While limited by how much fat the patient has to harvest and how much of that injected fat will Read More…
Headaches are a common human malady and present in many forms that range anywhere from a minor nuisance to that of being debilitating. One of the more severe headache forms is that of migraines. Being a true neurologic disorder, this type of headache is associated with head pain that is both disruptive and causes dysfunction. Read More…
In any form of skull reshaping surgery scalp incisions are needed. While every effort is made to keep them as short in length as possible, some incisional length is needed with a resultant scar. Such scalp scars are unavoidable The question from patients is always what does the scar look like and how does it Read More…
The shape of the eyes is affected by many anatomic structures. While much focus is on the larger eyelids, the inner corner of the eyes has a significant impact on eye appearance. While they may the small the inner and outer corner of the eyes affects eye width as well as the angulation of the Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation patients present with a variety of breast shapes that may necessitate additional procedures other than just the placement of an implant.Such is the case with sagging of the breasts. While many patients think that an implant will lift a sagging breast, this is not so. While it is true that nipple positions Read More…
Breast augmentation is one off the procedures in plastic surgery in which the use of an implant is mandatory and is inserted into patients in large numbers. While there are numerous complications that can develop from the procedure, the most dreaded one is infection. Such a complication risks everything with the likely outcome of 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...