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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...
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…
Background: Genioplasty is a generic term that refers to any manipulation of the chin. It does not specify exactly what that manipulation is but has become most synonymous today with the bone-based chin surgery known as a sliding genioplasty. While this is an operation that most frequently creates a horizontal chin augmentation effect it is Read More…
The lateral canthoplasty is a well known procedure that has value in both reconstructive (e.g., ectropion) and aesthetic eyelid surgery. (e.g., cat eye surgery) While once originally described as reattaching the lateral canthal tendon to the periosteum inside the lateral orbital rim, it has evolved today to use a direct attachment to the bone using Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known congenital skull deformity that is best described as a cranioscoliosis effect. This simply means that the skull is rotated on his vertical axis resulting in a twisted appearance. This creates a classic skull shape seen as flat on one side of the back of the head (more severe) followed Read More…
Brow bone reduction, as it is most commonly performed, is really frontal sinus surgery. The size of the frontal size is essentially reduced by changing the position of the front wall (anterior table) of the forehead air cavities. Usually the mucosa of the frontal sinus as well as the frontonasal duct are not manipulated. Thus 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...