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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...
For almost a quarter century silicone breast implant sizes in the U.S. had a maximum fill volume of 800ccs. This served the vast majority of patients well as only a very small percentage of aesthetic breast augmentation patients ever desire a size north of 800cs. Any patient needing a larger size had to resort to Read More…
The custom jawline implant has a profound influence on changing the shape of the lower third of the face. By wrapping around the inferolateral bony border of the mandible a unified skeletal expansion effect is obtained that not even jaw osteotomies can not replicate in its 3D effect. Improved jaw shape and definition is obtained Read More…
Background: The flatter midface has a long history of being treated by the LeFort I advancement bony procedure. While effective for improving projection of the upper lip, teeth and nasal base as well as improving the dental interdigitation it leaves behind the the midface structures that lie above the bone cut.This means the infraorbital rim Read More…
Background: Optimal augmentation around the orbit and cheeks is ideally done with a custom implant design. Some aesthetic cheek augmentations need a significant orbital component, most commonly along the infraorbital rim but may also include the lateral orbital rim as well. Often the desire for such an implant design is learned from the use of Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries are not uncommon and can affect any of the facial thirds.Such asymmetries can be more complete affecting multiple facial thirds or they can only involve one of them. The upper facial third or forehead is not spared from such congenital asymmetries although in my experience it is probably less commonly affected than Read More…
Background: There are many different types of standard facial implant styles including chin, cheek, nasal, jaw angle, tear trough/infraorbital, temporal and paranasal. Of all these off-the-shelf implant options the paranasal is unique with two distinctions. It is the smallest implant in size and probably the most infrequently used. It is also rarely in my experience Read More…
Background: The skull is prone to numerous contour deformations for which augmentation materials can be used to improve its shape. Plagiocephaly is the most recognized of all the deformational skull shape concerns. While it does affect the entire skull by far the most severely affected area is the back of the head one side being Read More…
Background: Injectable fillers are the most common form of facial augmentation due to their immediate effect and their non-surgical placement. They often are used before facial implant placement either as an initial test or unknowingly as a precursor to a yet unrealized desire for a permanent facial augmentation effect. They can be done to create Read More…
Background: The definitive augmentation method of the lower face is the custom jawline implant. While chin implants were the original jaw augmentation technique and are still the most common facial implant used their effects are limited to the anterior 1/3 of the lower face and their effects best seen in the profile view. Sometimes patients Read More…
The shape and size of the lips has great variability amongst individuals. Each set of lips is so unique that ‘lip prints’ are almost as individualized as finger prints. There is a natural difference in shape between the upper and lower lips due to the presence of the cupid’s bow in the upper lip which 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...