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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: Clavicle lengthening is one type of shoulder reshaping surgery with the intent of creating a more masculine upper torso appearance. While increased shoulder width is one of the desired effects, changing a rounded shape to a more square or angular shoulder appearance is equally important. Small clavicle lengths create rounder shoulders with a more Read More…
In clavicle reduction osteotomies for reductive shoulder reshaping surgery, the key technical step in the procedure is holding the bone in place once it is put back together. This bone fixation is done by titanium plates and screws of which there is a wide variety of types and manufacturers. All of these plate and screw Read More…
Background: In breast augmentation surgery one of the primary goals is symmetry. While the implants may be symmetric in size and volume is not, however, a guarantee that the breasts will be perfectly symmetric afterwards. There are numerous anatomic components around, on top and underneath the breast implants that will play a significant role in Read More…
The undereye region is a frequent area of aesthetic dissatisfaction. In the older patient it is sagging lower eyelid skin, bags and wrinkles for which various blepharoplasty and skin resurfacing techniques exist to provide substantial improvements. But in the younger patient aging soft tissues are not the primary cause of undereye concerns. Rather lack of Read More…
Background: One of the common aesthetic skull reshaping procedures requested and done is head widening reduction. Better known as temporal reduction the objective of the surgery is to create a narrowing effect (straight line) of an overly convex or round side of the head. While often perceived as accomplished by bone removal it is actually Read More…
Background: Like most other facial features the shape of the forehead is gender specific. There are numerous parts of the forehead that differ between women from men but the most obvious is that of the brow bones. In men due to the influence of testosterone the frontal sinuses develop more fully, creating prominent brow bone Read More…
Background: There are numerous facial features that define the male face of which the forehead is one of them. Occupying a third of the face the forehead is a dominant male feature that has a more complex topography than it initially seems to have. Besides the brow bones on its lower end, it is taller Read More…
Background: The deltoid muscle is a primary abductor of the upper arm whose mass gives the shoulder its rounded shape. Despite its seemingly uniform rounded shape it actually has three distinct heads or muscle masses, the anterior, lateral and posterior heads which helps the arm abduct in different planes. It is innervated exclusively by the Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is usually the treatment of choice for many significantly short chin patients. A a general rule when the amount of horizontal chin projection is near 10mm or more, the sliding genioplasty provides a more effective augmentation with a much lower risk of infection. For women in particular who prefer to keep Read More…
The subnasal or bullhorn lip lift is the most well known of all the surgical lip reshaping methods. It is a true lip lifting procedure given that its excisional location is at the nasal base-lip crease which results in a superior pull when closed. The length of the upper lip is shortened and with that 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...