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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: The five surfaces of the skull are prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities. In theory all five surfaces could be equally affected by these shape deformations but that is not so. Three of the five skull surfaces are completely bony but the sides are covered with muscle. Since almost all skull Read More…
Background: The back of the head is typically perceived as being made up of the occipital skull bone. But this is not completely accurate. This large unpaired bone is the most posterior part of the skull and does makes up a significant part of its posterior wall. But the upper part of the back of Read More…
Background: The skull is simplistically a collection of five almost flat to very convex surfaces. All of these skull surfaces usually have smooth outer contours but are prone to a wide variety of possible irregularities from either congenital, traumatic or pathologic origins. A significant number of such surface contour irregularities are related to the suture Read More…
Jaw angle implants have become increasingly popular, particularly amongst men, for enhancement of the back part of the lower jaw. While often in combination with chin implants or a sliding geniplasty for a more complete jaw augmentation effect, they can also be done by themselves if adequate chin projection already exists. Jaw angle implants are Read More…
Background: The most common bony changes done to the lower jaw are the sliding genioplasty and the sagittal split ramus osteotomy. (SSRO) Other types of bony changes less commonly done are chin wing osteotomies, v line surgery and TMJ joint replacements. All of these autologous jaw procedures can create very effective lower facialreshaping changes but Read More…
Background: The chin is the most commonly treated aesthetic facial augmentation area for which a wide variety of implants exist to perform it. All but one of these implant styles provides a horizontal augmentation effect only. While they can be positioned a bit lower on the chin bone to create some vertical lengthening effect they Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery reduces the length of the clavicles through osteotomies at the inner half of the bone below incisions placed in the supraclavicular fossa. It is a procedure that is often compared to a longstanding surgery that seems similar…clavicle fracture repair. But the reality is it is a far different surgery in many Read More…
Background: Chin implants, like all implants placed in the body, induces a biologic response at the implantation site. The most well known response is encapsulation or the surrounding of the implant with scar tissue known as the capsule. Regardless of the implant material capsules are formed. Chin implants have also been associated with ‘erosion’ although Read More…
Background: Testicular enhancement is most commonly done by a side to side implant displacement method. With this approach a custom testicle implant is used that is bigger than the natural testicles. This is effective by becoming the most dominant structure seen in the scrotum through displacement of the natural testicles upward towards the inguinal canal. Read More…
Background: Cheek implant augmentation is uniquely different from that of chin implants. Besides being a different anatomic location the cheek is bilateral and not singular which are its two most obvious differences. But when planning for cheek augmentation one has to look way behind these basic differences and treat them with their own unique dimensional 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...