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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...
Gynecomastia is the development of an abnormal amount of breast tissue in a male that creates undesired chest fullness. It doesn’t create a breast appearance in most men but the chest appearance is still aesthetically unfavorable. True gynecomastia is the very firm mass that occurs directly under the nipple-areolar complex. It is very dense breast Read More…
The chin can be reshaped in a variety of well known bony maneuvers. The most common is projection increase via the classic sliding genioplasty using a horizontally angulated bony cut. The other now recognized bony chin reshaping is that of the mini V line surgery. This is a reductive procedure to reduce the width of Read More…
Background: The scalp is essentially soft tissues stretch over a ‘beachball’. (skull) Because of its stretched out shape it is typically fairly tight. While everyone has some scalp laxity it is not particularly flexible or can be pushed around much. There are certain scalp circumstances, however, where greater scalp looseness occurs. One such circumstance is Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly, or cranioscoliosis, affects the entire shape of the skull in a very predictable way. Depending upon the rotation of the developing head on a vertical axis (clockwise vs counter clockwise) the flat side of the back of the head creates protrusion on the same side on the front of the head. (forehead) Most Read More…
Rib removal surgery is most commonly associated from an aesthetic standpoint with waistline reduction. While the width and shape of the waistline is affected by numerous tissues, the protrusion of the lower ribcage has always been assumed to be a significant contributor to it. Much of this has to do with the ability to feel Read More…
Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of aesthetic shape deformities that are readily visible in the contemporary short hair or shaved head male. While many of these shape issues are random some do fall into general categories that have a very specific developmental cause. As a result I often see them with Read More…
Background: There are a variety of medical complications that can occur of any facial implant, including chin implants, of which the most feared is infection. When infection occurs around a chin implant, its salvage by any variety of maneuvers is frequently unsuccessful. Removal of the infected implant is always the definitive treatment. Re-implantation at a Read More…
The custom jawline implant provides the most significant aesthetic change to the lower third of the face. This is due to its ability to affect all three dimensions of the jawline as it wraps around it. While there are various factors that affect the aesthetic outcome in the placement of a custom jawline implant, tissue Read More…
Facial asymmetries that more completely involve the whole face or just the upper half of the face create eyebrow asymmetries. Almost always the affected eyebrow is lower and may be associated with a lower tail of the brow bone and the upper eyelid as well. As a result, uplifting of the lower eyebrow is often Read More…
Development facial asymmetries are common and often involve more than just one facial structure.One of the structures often involved in more complete facial asymmetries is the corner of the mouth. The mouth corner is frequently in some facial asymmetries, usually in the 3 to 7mms range. This creates an obvious cant to the smile line. 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...