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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: Facelift surgery is very common and is the single most effective procedure for correcting aging issues of the jowls and neck. By removing excess fat in the neck and jowls, tightening the platysma muscles and redraping loose skin up toward the ears and temporal hairline, a recontouring of the lower face is achieved. In Read More…
The concept of a drainless tummy tuck has been around for several years now and has met with mixed success. Some plastic surgeons claim they never place a drain and do not have any seromas while others almost always place drains with a low incidence of problems including seromas. Patients would obviously not like to Read More…
The large masseter muscle (masseteric hypertrophy), unlike the prominent bony jaw angle, does not have a surgical solution. Surgical muscular reduction is associated with a high rate of complications and potental disability. As a result, the use of botulinum toxin type A injections (most commonly Botox) has become the standard of treatment to improve Read More…
Reshaping the nose in the cleft patient represents one of the more challenging of all rhinoplasty surgeries. Efforts are made a various time periods from the initial cleft lip repair to teenage years to make nose corrections. But the tissue deformities inherent in the cleft nose almost always defies a completely satisfying result. Of the Read More…
Background: The shape of the human skull has many variations beyond just being an overall oblong shape. Besides the smoothness of its surface, it has width, height and length dimensions that give it an overall perception of head size. If these skull dimensions are not proportionate, this can make the head seem too small or Read More…
There are two effective and well established techniques for either buttock or hip augmentation. They are either fat injections using your own liposuction harvest (Brazilian Butt Lift) or soft silicone elastomer implants that can neither rupture or leak. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages, as does every surgical technique, but both may not be Read More…
Fat injections, also known as autologous lipofilling, continues to expand in usage in plastic surgery. While initially perceived as just a soft tissue filler, it has become known for improving the quality of the tissues into which it is injected. The precise mechanisms as to why this happens is not known but observations and anectodal Read More…
Breast augmentation is one of the most commonly performed cosmetic body procedures in the U.S.. While producing immediate and often dramatic changes in breast size and shape, it is a procedure that is associated with a variety of potential complications. Some of these complications are surgery-related (e.g., hematoma) while others are device-related. (e.g., capsular contracture) Read More…
The implantation of medical devices is extensive and varied and crosses all surgical specialties. Plastic surgery is no exception with the use of a wide array of implants from the face to the legs. The most recognized and largest medical device that is implanted in plastic surgery is that of the the breast implant. Having Read More…
Background: The male forehead is uniquely different from that of females. It has more prominent brow bones, a well defined brow break and a forehead that has no more than 10 to 20 degree angulation backward into the frontal hairline superiorly. This is quite different from a female’s forehead which ideally has little to no 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...