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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 by a siding genioplasty typically focuses on the amount of horizontal augmentation the patient desires. But one advantage of the sliding genioplasty over a chin implant is the ability to also adjust the vertical chin length. It can be used to vertically shorten or lengthen the chin. In doing so, particularly in Read More…
Two uncommon but successful aesthetic body contouring procedures are shoulder reduction (clavicle reduction osteotomies) and waistline narrowing. (rib removal) Each contour reduction procedure is partially or totally based on bone removal to achieve their effects. These are also body contouring procedures done on females, whether it is transgender or cis females. Each procedure has its Read More…
Background: Despite the successes achieved with all custom skull implants, the exact aesthetic outcome can never be known with absolute certainty. In addition patients may well have achieved their initial goal, or come very close to it, but desire to get even closer to it or even exceed it if possible. Either waif the issue Read More…
Background: Elective skull augmentations are done for a variety of indications most of which are due to aesthetic head shape concerns. Such concerns are simply the way the head developed without any specific reason why. But one event after birth that can change the shape of the head is invasive skull surgery, specifically craniotomies. They Read More…
Background: Temporal reduction has been developed to produce a visible narrowing of excessive width on the sides of the head. Most of the time this excessive width appears as a convexity that begins just above the ear and bows outward as the tissues ascent upward towards the bony temporal line of the skull. While typically Read More…
Background: Occupying a third of the face the forehead is well known to have a gender specific shape and features. For this reason forehead procedures is one of the most common focuses of facial feminization surgery. In male to female forehead feminization the brow bone reduction procedure is most commonly associated with it and, while Read More…
Background: Testicle implants have a fairly long history of clinical use and their compositions have evolved over this time period. Like almost all aesthetic body implants they have their origin as either a solid or silicone gel-filled oval shaped implant. They had a tab on one end to serve as a point of suture fixation Read More…
The most common bony chin procedure performed, both historically and currently, is the sliding genioplasty. Its most recognized dimensional change is implied in its name, sliding forward, or horizontal augmentation. When used to increase the height of the chin it is known as a vertical lengthening bony genioplasty. But when used to change the width Read More…
Background: The success of shoulder width narrowing by clavicle reduction osteotomies depends on stable plate and screw fixation. Holding the bones in place until the body starts to knit the two cut ends together requires them to be held in stable proximity for the first month after surgery. Such fixation success depends on having a Read More…
Background: Pectus excavatum is a well known congenital chest deformity that when severe enough justifies surgical correction. The historic operation is the Ravitch procedure introduced back in the early 1950s. It has become improved and is now for some time been performed as the modified Ravitch procedure in which the sternum and surrounding structures are 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...