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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 skull has five basic bony surfaces. The forehead, top and back of the head are exclusively bone surfaces while the paired side of the head is covered by a thick muscular layer. (temporalis muscle) This anatomic difference has great relevance when it comes to performing various skull augmentation procedures. While placing a skull Read More…
The custom skull implant provides the most effective method of correction of various flat skull areas (e.g., planiocephaly) or a desire for a larger skull shape. Such computer-designed implants made from a solid silicone material offer the most advantages in skull augmentation because they can be placed through the smallest scalp incision…an important consideration in Read More…
For men who seek wider shoulders beyond that of exercise there are three surgical options. The medial bone-based approach is clavicle lengthening while the lateral soft tissue methods include deltoids implants and deltoid fat injections. Each of these shoulder widening methods has their advantages and disadvantages and no method is perfect. The lateral soft tissue Read More…
The ribs are comprised of 12 pairs, all of which have a bony and cartilage component. The ratio of cartilage to bone depends on what rib it is and whether it attaches to the sternum or not. The first ten ribs do attach to the sternum and have varying cartilages in those attachments as it Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known and popular cheek reshaping procedure. By removing part or all of this encapsulated fat pad the fullness of the cheeks is reduced creating a modest to moderate facial slimming effect. The buccal fat pad is a unique appearing fat with a bright yellow color, large lobules, a vascular Read More…
Background: The historic and still acceptable method for total jawline augmentation is with the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. The most common problem with the use of such standard implants is malposiiton of them affecting the symmetry of the result. But even when such chin and jaw angle implants are well placed Read More…
The anterior thigh muscles can be aesthetically augmented based on subfascial placement of an implant along the rectus femoris and vastus lateralis quad muscles. This raises the question of whether the posterior thigh can also be augmented although I am not aware of it yet being done. Thus this requires a look at the anatomy Read More…
Background: Midface deficiencies are an interesting area of the face to augment as it is one of the few facial areas that has a significant concave shape to it. It also poses some anatomic issues with the prominent location of the infraorbital nerve. Traditionally midface augmentation was perceived as only being able to be effectively Read More…
Background: The desired shape of the chin can be very gender specific. Men often prefer a wider and even a more square chin shape. Conversely women usually prefer a more narrow chin shape and most contemporarily a tapered v-shape. While achieving a wider chin shape in men usually requires addition using an implant, attaining a Read More…
Aesthetic augmentation of the skull can be done on any of its five surfaces using a custom implant approach. Based on a 3D skull CT scan virtually any implant can be designed within the limits of how much the scalp can stretch to accommodate it. While the design possibilities are considerable there are no established 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...