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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 most common form of cheek augmentation today is with the use of synthetic fillers. While fillers offer an immediate and non-surgical result their effects are not permanent. Fat is also an injectable option but its results can similarly not be permanent. Cheek implants provide a permanent augmentation effect and can create a wide Read More…
Background: In penile enlargements it is not uncommon to augment the underlying scrotum either at the same time or secondarily to maintain penile-scrotal proportions. In testicular size enhancements there are two different implant approaches, side by side and some form of wrap around implant. Each has their advantages and disadvantages and neither approach is perfect. Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is most commonly performed by fat injections, reserving implants for non-candidates or inadequate BBL results. While these buttock enhancement approaches apply to both women and men there are some gender differences. While men can do like women synthetic fillers and fat injections they often are less tolerant of procedures that require multiple Read More…
Background: The metopic suture runs down the midline on the frontal bone of the forehead. At its back end is the bregma where it intersects with the transverse coronal sutures. At its front end it intersects with the nasal bones. Its function in the neonate is to facilitate passage through the birth canal by allowing Read More…
The occipital knob is a common midline skull protrusion on the back of the head. It is normal to have one but when its size becomes larger it can cause an undesired prominence. While a large occipital knob is particularly visible in the male with a shaved head an equal number of men with hair Read More…
In jaw angle and custom jawline implants the most challenging part of the surgery is to get the implants properly positioned over the bone. Between the limited visual access of the intraoral incisional approach and the ligamentous attachments of the masseter muscles it is not as easy as it may seem to get implant positioning Read More…
Background: Traditional procedures for making a better waistline or more shapely torso include liposuction and certain excisional procedures like a tummy tuck. These are removal and discard surgeries. A more recent and extremely popular torso reshaping option is BBL surgery or the Brazilian Butt Lift. This is a tissue recycling procedure in which fat is Read More…
Background: Testicular enhancement is a different implant technique than testicular replacement. In the latter the implant acts to replace a testicle that has been lost. Conversely in testicular enhancement the native testicles remain present nd the goal is to make them appear bigger. To do so two methods exist, a wrap around implant and a Read More…
Background: Rib removal is a head of but often not understood procedure. The bottom end of the ribcage are the free floating ribs #11 and #12. Because of this lack of distal attachments that angle down much more significantly than the attached ribs above it. These lack of subcostal/sternal attachments indicates that they do not Read More…
I was just at the 40th annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Goteborg Sweden as a feature speaker where I met a Swedish surgeon Dr. Igor Niecjajev who has practiced his entire career in Stockholm. He introduced me to a paper he had written on a procedure that I perform 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...