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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: Lower leg contouring is most commonly done by liposuction. This is effective when the primary problem is caused by excess fat with a minimal amount of redundant skin. But when the skin becomes a major excess as well liposuction is not going to be optimally effective. This issue becomes magnified when the redundant skin Read More…
Background: One of the most recognized skull abnormalities is plagiocephaly. This is a term that literally means ‘twisted skull’ or medically known as cranioscoliosis. When viewed from above the head looks lopsided or rotated. This is typically seen as a flatness on one side of the back of the head with an associated forehead protrusion Read More…
Rib cartilage provides a plentiful source of graft material for any rhinoplasty need. While its benefit is the volume it provides, its disadvantage is in its shape. Rib cartilage has variable thicknesses, is round in shape and is rarely straight. Carving it into the form needed for dorsal augmentation is always required and with that Read More…
The use of cartilage grafts is an essential need in many primary and revisional rhinoplasty surgeries. Most such grafts come from either direct anatomic proximity (septum) or from a regional source. (ear) But when these sites are inadequate due to lack of graft material or the volume of material exceeds their capacity, the more distant Read More…
Background: The width and shape of the shoulders is highly gender specific. While broad shoulders are desired by most men, more narrow shoulders are usually preferred by women. Men prefer a sharper shoulder shape while women a more rounder one. While men seek surgical methods to large their shoulders, women may seek a method to Read More…
The skull can have a wide variety of shapes from being too small to too big. One of the common unaesthetic skull shapes is a head that is too narrow. This is seen as a head width from the sides of the forehead to the back of the head that is skinny in appearance. This Read More…
Rhinoplasty frequently uses cartilage grafts to aid in the reshaping of the nose. They are used to either create a shape in the nose that did not exist before to providing support of native cartilage structures that have been altered. Most commonly septal cartilage is harvested and used, not only because of anatomic proximity, but Read More…
Background: The jawline and neck are connected by more than just anatomic proximity. The amount of projection of the chin and the length of the jawline affects the appearance of the neck profile. The shorter the chin projection the more obtuse the cervicomental neck angle becomes. Conversely the greater the chin projection the less obtuse/more Read More…
Background: The mid-body region for contouring can be done by a variety of surgical procedures. The most well known and commonly done are liposuction, fat transfer augmentations and buttock implants. This collection of now standard procedures can satisfy most patient’s needs for a smaller waistline, larger and more shapely buttocks and, in some cases, even Read More…
Chin augmentation can be done by a wide variety of methods from injectable fillers or fat, implants and repositioning the end of the chin bone. These augmentation options represent an increasingly level of invasiveness/scope of surgery in which patients can go up or down on these progressive treatment…although it is far more common to go 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...