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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: Chin augmentation is primarily about an increase in the horizontal dimension. This is why the vast majority of before and after results seen are only shown in the profile view. It is also why most preoperative imaging is also done in the side view as well. While one can have a debate about how Read More…
Background: The testicles in a male play both a functional and an aesthetic role. Their aesthetic role is diminished when a testicle is lost or missing and is the main reason testicular implants were developed. The placement of testicle implants into a lost space poses no ‘occupancy’ problems since they are filling a previously occupied Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is the autologous option for chin augmentation that has both its advocates and advantages in the properly selected patient. In the ‘average’ chin augmentation patient, where horizontal augmentation is the need, it completes with chin implants and the decision between the two must be carefully considered by the patient. When the Read More…
Clefts of the orofacial region are one of the most common congenital facial deformities. While not frequent by the numbers (more or less 1:1,000 births) they are still high in the list of potential facial birth defects. In the state of Indiana, for example, where about 80,000 births occur per year, almost one hundred new Read More…
One of the important and/or desired aesthetic features of the male face is a strong lower jawline. The three corners of the jawline, the chin and paired jaw angles, are the major components of it. Much has been written about the desired anatomic features of the chin but much less so about that of the Read More…
Background: The position of he corners of the mouth are a balance between numerous muscle attachments. These muscles include the levator angle oris, the zygomaticus, the orbicularis oris and the depressor angle oris. Activation of these muscle produces different effects on the mouth corners either pulling it up, down, or out to the sides. While Read More…
Background: Lack of adequate development of the midface is a not uncommon facial developmental deformity and is most commonly seen in certain ethnicities. In its most significant form combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery approaches are needed to treat both the functional and aesthetic sequelae from a midface that lacks adequate forward projection. Far more commonly are natural Read More…
Aesthetic augmentation of the posterior jawline consists of various implant options to overlay the bony jaw angle or mandibular ramus. The submuscular placement of the implant on the bone is the logical placement as the goal is to increase the size and shape of the bone. While this is a very effective technique it is Read More…
Surgical treatment of the downturned corner of the mouth has historically been associated with two common themes. First it is a procedure by history that has been largely done in age-related drooping mouth corners. (older patients) Two, it is a laterally-based procedure that lives visible scars with a high rate of adverse scarring. Both trends Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is one of the most well known chin reshaping procedures. Separating the chin bone by a bone cut done from inside the mouth allows the bone to be moved in a variety of different positions for various chin shape changes. The new position of the chin bone is fixed into position by 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...