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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...
One of the most common discussed effects associated with chin implants is bone resorption. This has been talked about for decades and patients and doctors talk about it like it is a progressive ongoing phenomenon that has pathologic and negative clinical effects. I have stated for a long time that this is an erroneous concept, Read More…
Buccal lipectomies, a facial reshaping procedure once denounced as deleterious, has gained popularity in more recent times. In an effort to thin out or sculpt full cheeks, removal of the discrete buccal fat creates the most significant amount of facial fat reduction. The cheek subcutaneous tissues are not particularly favorable for liposuction due to its Read More…
The hanging ala is one of the not uncommon nasal tip shape discrepancies seen in some Asian rhinoplasties. Effective techniques for lifting the hanging ala are limited to either direct excision along the alar rim or indirect excision along the alar crease above it. Each method has the issue of adverse scarring potential. In the Read More…
The placement of chin implants can be through either an external submental skin incision or an internal intraoral mucosal incision. Regardless of the incisional approach a subperiosteal tissue pocket has to be created in which the implant will sit. Given the height of most chin implants there is a lot of bone surface area in Read More…
Augmenting depressed contours of the skull can be done by a variety of materials. When placing any skull augmentation material the two key elements of importance are assurance of the desired contour and a limited scalp incisional scar to do so. It is important to differentiate reconstructive skull thickness restoration from aesthetic skull contouring. The Read More…
Correction of prominent ears by a setback otoplasty, whether in children or adults, is a highly rewarding procedure for most patients. Numerous techniques have been described in how to reliably and permanently setback the cartilage of the protruding ear. None of these technique have proven to be absolutely superior over the others, indicating that any Read More…
Aesthetic augmentations of the head can be most effectively done using a custom skull implant approach. Using the patient’s 3D CT scan implants can be designed to contour large surface areas of the external skull bone surface. While these skull implant designs can be made of any of the traditional materials, solid silicone is the Read More…
Background: The chin and neck are related more than just by anatomic proximity. The prominence or angularity of one affects the appearance of the other one. Aesthetically it is difficult to separate one from the other. A short chin makes the neck appears less defined. Conversely a neck that is more obtuse makes the chin/jawline Read More…
Shoulder feminization is a surgical procedure where the bideltoid width of the upper body is narrowed. This is achieved by reducing the horizontal length of the clavicles by removing an intervening bone segment. This removed bone usually measures 2.5 to 3 cms in length which translates fairly directly into the same amount of shoulder narrowing. Read More…
While the chin has been a focus of lower facial reshaping for over half a century, it really only represents 1/3 of the total jaw surface area. While its surface area involvement is relatively small it has greater aesthetic significance to the face than the amount of bone area that it occupies due to its 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...