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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...
Chin implant augmentation is done in both men and women but the aesthetic goals are often different. While the amount of horizontal chin projection differs amongst each patient, the shape of the augmented chin from the front view can be very gender specific. While women may prefer a more narrow or even v-shaped chin appearance, Read More…
Aesthetic augmentation of the hips is largely soft tissue-based. The aesthetic hip area is traditionally perceived as variable locations below the iliac crest bone which at some point becomes the lateral thigh. The iliac crest serves as the superior boundary for hip implants and is often where the location is for their placement incisions. While Read More…
Injectable fillers are the most common form of facial reshaping albeit nonsurgical. The have evolved twenty years ago rom injecting nasolabial folds and lips to being used for virtually any form of facial augmentation effect. Some applications are incredibly common still (e.g., lip and cheeks) and others are becoming commonplace today. (e.g., chin, jaw angles Read More…
Background: There are many causes of eye asymmetry due to the numerous structures that surround the eyeball from the eyelids, brow bone, and the eyebrow. These make up the most common causes of eye asymmetry. The one unique causes of eye asymmetry is that of the eyeball itself. This is when the eyeball on one Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty for aesthetic chin augmentation has numerous advantages. It is an autologous procedure meaning that its risk of infection is rare. Once healed no long-term postoperative complications can usually occur from the bone. Also since it is done intraorally it has no visible scar. Like all operations, however, it has its own Read More…
Background: Saline-filled implants have been an available device used in breast augmentation for decades. They reached their highest use in the years between 1991 and 2006 when silicone breast implants were not available. But they still remain a useful breast augmentation device for those patients who are opposed to a silicone-filled device or those seeking Read More…
One of the most popular uses of the custom facial implant concept is that of the jawline. The combination of no off-the-shelf implant that can accomplish a total jaw augmentation result and its powerful effect on the appearance of the lower third of the face the custom jawline implant is a facial game changer for Read More…
Temporal reduction is a skull reshaping procedures that focuses on reducing the width/convexity at the side of the head. Unlike skull reduction on the front, top and back of the head, which is exclusively composed of bone, the sides of the head are covered by soft tissues most of which is muscle. For this anatomic Read More…
Brow bone augmentation is one of the least performed facial augmentation procedures as evidenced by the lack of any preformed implant to do it. This does not mean, however, that male patients don’t have brow bone deficiency concerns and a desire to address it. One uncommon indication for brow bone augmentation is asymmetry where one Read More…
Background: Osteomas are well known benign bony growths that have a predilection for the skull. They are probably best known in the forehead as this prominent location drives patients to have them removed due to their visibility. They always occur as solitary bony bumps of varying sizes and quite frequently have a prior history of 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...