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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: Chin augmentation must consider the three dimensions including horizontal, vertical, and width. But when bony asymmetry exist this adds another variable to consider. The choice between a standard and custom implant comes down to the aesthetic dimensional needs and whether any asymmetry exist. Unique or exaggerated dimensional needs as well as any amount of Read More…
Chin implants because of their very interior augmentation of a projecting solitary point as well as the ability to easily see the implant and the bone serve as an excellent study in the biologic response of the bone to the implant. Because of the clear visibility of the implant on the bone, particularly in lateral Read More…
Background: Chin implant are the most common form of aesthetic facial augmentation and our widely perform by all surgeons that operate in the face. However, despite the frequency of them being done and he perception that it is a fairly simple operation, there is a relatively high rate of revision with their use. One of Read More…
In the Asian face wide cheeks with a flatter midface is a common facial skeletal shape. There are well known bone reduction operations that address the wide cheeks but there are no osteotomy or bone moving operations that can address the lack of cheek and infraorbital rim anterior projection. Such increased projections require an implant Read More…
Asian patients are well known for the propensity for prominent cheekbones which creates a flatter and wider midface. This type of midface structure in the Asian patient can create a desire for less wide and more projected cheekbones. As a result a variety of cheek bone reduction osteotomies have been designed over the past four Read More…
The placement of large custom implants in the testicular enhancement patient will pose challenges through the smaller midline scrotal incisions used. When looking at the implant diameter:incisional length ratio it usually almost two to one. And while scrotal skin is very elastic and ultrasoft silicone testicle implants very compressible it can still be a challenge Read More…
Background: The size of the male scrotum is a function of the two testicular bodies contained in the amount of scrotal tissue and skin that surrounds them. There is no scrotal size numbers or measurements that is the right amount or the proper aesthetic size on a general basis. Scrotal size is subject to each Read More…
Many older male patients, as often defined as 65 years of age, or older, are most bothered by the development of central turkey neck or wattle.While a lower facelift is the definitive procedure for most forms of neck tissue sagging the older male may not prefer or be able to medically undergo the extent of Read More…
The traditional and majority of waist reshaping procedures are soft tissue-based removing either fat and skin. While this is all that most patients need some may benefit from deeper structural changes to the bone as well. Such lower ribcage modifications have long been rumored to exist but there was little evidence of them being Read More…
In aesthetic testicular enhancement surgery a wide variety of scrotal interventions and abnormalities can be encountered. The most common are atrophic testicular changes with below normal sizes…which is of course why they are presenting for the surgery. But numerous other entities may be found from penile pump extensions to various injectable. While every non-autologous entity 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...