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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 introduction of hydroxyapatite bone cements (HAC) in the 1990s, based upon an extensive experimental and clinical history of proven osteoconductive responses in maxillofacial surgery as granules and blocks in the 1980s, was a welcome alternative to acrylic (methyl methacrylate) in cranioplasty and skull augmentations.The ability to intraoperatively mix and mold a liquid and powder Read More…
Background: The thick hair bearing scalp can develop a variety of benign soft tissue masses/tumors. Lipomas, dermoid cysts and pilomatrixomas are the most common and develop from natural structures that exists in the scalp. (fat, sweat/oil glands and hair follicles) Most such masses are readily identifiable when they are seen by exposing and removing them Read More…
Background: There are multiple hard and soft tissue reduction procedures that can be done to the forehead. Bony reductions include such prominences as frontal bossing and forehead horn reduction to name some of the most commonly done. The only soft tissue forehead reduction procedure is a frontal hairline advancement. Each one of these forehead reduction Read More…
Background: The most common chin reshaping procedure in a male is augmentation. Most commonly it is in a horizontal dimension but the chin augmentation changes may occasionally also include vertical lengthening and transverse widening. But regardless of the specific dimensional changes augmentation of the chin makes up 95% of all male requests/needs. In women chin Read More…
The lower midface consists of the central pyriform aperture or the bone around the base of the nose. Its forward development plays a major role in the projection of the nose and how the nose appears in relation to the upper lip. It is the most projecting part of the central midface where the rest Read More…
The antegonial notch is a well known feature of the lower jaw. It occurs as a concavity or elevation of the inferior border in front of the jaw or gonial angle. Because of this location it has also been called the pregonial notch. It does not appear in everyone and it is more common in Read More…
Background: Residual defects of the forehead and orbital regions are very common from prior early craniofacial surgery procedures. While moving skull and facial bones around at a young age are an ideal time for the bones to heal and open bone gaps to fit in, long term such skull and orbital bone reshaping procedures can Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is typically rounder regardless of the view to which it is seen. In the profile view it has an oblong curved convex shape. When seen from behind the shape of the head is fairly round. When looked at front the front, which is how most people see their head, Read More…
Volume-assured augmentation of the upper midface is currently able to be done by two basic type of implants, cheeks and infraorbital styles. They both have a role to play which becomes more challenged when the midface augmentation is a three-quarter one…this means achieving a combined infraorbital and cheek augmentation effect. When this need arrives the Read More…
The back of the head is typically called the occiput or occipital bone. But anatomically this is inaccurate as only the lower central part of the back of the head is the occipital bone. Much of the back of the head is the parietal bone which lies above the inverted v-shaped lambdoid sutures. Appreciating the 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...