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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...
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…
Background: The use of an implant to correct a small chin is one of the most common facial reshaping procedures. Conceptually it is a very straightforward procedure but consistently getting good aesthetic results is dependent on numerous variables such as implant style and size, its position on the bone and ultimately the patient’s response to Read More…
Background: The current state of testicle implants is closely tied to that of breast implants. When the silicone breast implant moratorium was instituted in 1991 that also applied to every other aesthetic body implant that was composed of silicone gel. Away went silicone testicle implants and the search for an FDA-approved replacement took over a Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial defatting/thinning procedure. While the total volume of the fat pads is not large (3 to 4ccs per side), it is unique fat in that it is a highly concentrated solid collection of adipose cells.The exact biologic behavior of this fat has never been fully understood as its Read More…
Temporal implants offer an assured volume increase in correction of aesthetic temporal hollowing. They are available in two styles, standard and extended. The extended temporal implant style was developed to offer a more complete temporal augmentation effect from the zygomatic arch up to the bony temporal line. Two thickness are available from thin (3mm) to Read More…
Rhinoplasty surgery is fundamentally about changing the osteocartilaginous structural support of the nose. The eventual aesthetic result becomes how the overlying skin shrinks down around the reshaped nasal structure. While this is an accurate assessment for much of the nose, it is not completely accurate for certain component parts of the nose. One such part Read More…
Hip augmentation is most commonly perceived as the region over the greater trochanter of the upper leg. It is intended to widen the soft tissue hip region as it relates to the same level as the buttocks but more anteriorly located. This can be accomplished by either fat injections or implants, each which has their 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...