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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...
Chin implants and a sliding genioplasty are two methods of chin augmentation that are often compared. While they can have similar effects when it comes to horizontal chin augmentation they have other different aesthetic effects. In certain other dimensional changes and in their effects on the neck is where they differ. The effect of a Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetry affects the face in seemingly variable and unpredictable ways. But in reality most facial asymmetries are relatively complete (affects the entire side of the face) if one looks closely enough and follows one of two patterns. (lower/inferior and upper/superior types) In other words they are more predictable than they may appear. In Read More…
Background: Facial implants are a common method used for permanent aesthetic augmentation. But the concept to grasp about their use is that is a reason that are available as off-the-shelf preformed implants….they are made for modest aesthetic concerns that can be improved by a single ‘spot’ augmentation. This is the role that standard cheek and Read More…
Shoulder reduction by removing a segment of the clavicle bone is an effective procedure for decreasing the bideltoid width. A 2.5 to 3cm segment of bone is removed from the inner third of each clavicle which is both the location of the thickest diameter of the bone as well as the most favorable location for Read More…
Surgery of the jaw angle is approached intraorally from the posterior mandibular vestibular incision. From sagittal split osteotomies to angle fractures to aesthetic jaw angle implants this incision provides the most direct access to this bony facial region. It is placed in the depth of the vestibule opposite the second/third molar teeth. Once passing through Read More…
Background: Implants are the assured permanent method of buttock augmentation even though they are far less commonly performed compared to BBL surgery. (fat injections) Patients typically seek out buttock implants because they do not have adequate fat stores to harvest for BBL surgery or they have received inadequate BBL results. The present debate with buttock Read More…
Th typical perception of the outer shape of the jaw angles is that they are a flat surface. This is certainly how they are seen in looking at regular x-rays and on most plastic jaw models. But in looking at many 3D CT scans for jawline implant designs it is apparent that their actual topography Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the periorbital region has very few standard implant options. Such standard implants are made for the aesthetic tear trough deformity and some modest amount of horizontal infraorbital rim deficiency. Combined with cheek implants an infraorbital-malar horizontal augmentation can be achieved but not in a contiguous fashion. But specific types of infraorbital-malar augmentations Read More…
The goal of lip augmentation, or to make the lips bigger, is to expand the visible vertical height of the dry vermilion. This is most commonly done by the use of injectable fillers. Fillers work well if there is enough initial vermilion that it can expanded up and outward. But even if injectable fillers work Read More…
Custom skull implants designed from a 3D CT scan are the most effective method for creating any type of aesthetic head augmentation. While designing such implants seems simple, it is not. The large convex surfaces of the skull offers ample opportunity for implant coverage and varying thicknesses but there are no design guidelines in any 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...