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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...
Soft tissue reshaping of the forehead consists of two basic types of procedures based on the anatomic landmarks of the eyebrows and the frontal hairline. (at least in women) There is the conventional rejuvenative browlift procedure which elevates or alters the shape of the brows at the lower end of the forehead. At the superior Read More…
The custom jawline implant is the ideal method for creating a more visible an defined lower face. It creates this effect as it builds out a more prominent transition between the face and the neck through skeletal augmentation. One element that determines how profound that effect is is the soft tissue thicknesses both above and Read More…
There are many misconceptions of the body’s biologic response to the placement of the commonly performed chin implant. The chin bone, while not entirely different from the rest of the facial bones at the osseous level, is unique in being a singular bony prominence that creates the leading edge of the lower third of the Read More…
Background: The skull is prone to developing undesired ‘lumps and bumps’ which are aesthetically bothersome because they disrupt an otherwise smooth head surface. Such bony protrusions are abnormally raised spot areas of bone that can be reduced by a direct burring approach. While not pathologic these type of skull protrusions represent overgrowths of normal outer Read More…
Vertical lengthening of the chin is an interesting procedure that entails different considerations than traditional horizontal chin augmentation. It differs because the techniques to elongate the chin are not well known or used as the diagnosis of vertical chin deficiency is frequently overlooked. From a traditional standpoint vertical chin lengthening was perceived as only being Read More…
Background: Syndromic jaw deficiencies represent the most severe lower facial deformities that occur. There is a spectrum of such congenital craniofacial deformities of which hemifacial microsomia and Treacher Collins are the most recognized. What these syndromes share in common is that the branchial arches are affected which results in varying degrees of mandibular underdevelopment as Read More…
The midface equivalent of the custom jawline implant of the lower face is the custom infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant. Besides the break for the nose this is an implant that augments the convexity of the midface from under the eye out onto the zygomatic body and arch. While it is possible in some smaller IOM implants Read More…
Background: Like the rest of the face the lower jaw forms from paired branchial arches that meet and fuse in the middle to create its final shape in utero. How well these complex embryologic processes form and merge is what determines how symmetric the two sides of one’s lower jaw will be. In an incredible Read More…
Background: Besides the lip and palate, the classic and common orofacial cleft affects the nose as well. Even though the cleft does not run directly through the external nose it does affect the floor of the nose (palate) which, through deviations of the septum, has extended effects through the middle vault and the alar cartilages Read More…
Background: When a chin implant fails to provide satisfactory horizontal projection, the initial question is always why. Most of the time the surgeon has inadequately estimated the patient’s aesthetic needs or chosen an implant size they thought looked adequate. More times than not there has been no preoperative imaging prediction work done to determine what 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...