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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 high cheekbone look is a specific form of cheek augmentation requested often by men but sometimes by women as well. It is a well known aesthetic facial look externally but what creates that internally at the anatomic level is not as well described. Flat cheeks are typically associated with am inward rotation of the Read More…
Jaw angle augmentation is most effectively and permanent done with implants. While chin implants have been around for a long time the front part of the lower jaw has different and much more simplistic anatomy than its back part. Thus neither patient or surgeon should confuse placement of chin implants with jaw angle implants which Read More…
Background: Liposuction is now an ‘old’ fat removal procedure that has always had several basic principles for an effective and uncomplicated result. While the technology of liposuction has changed many of these basic principles remain the same. The goal is an even reduction of the subcutaneous fat layer to create a smooth external contour without Read More…
Background: While there are various methods of performing a lower facelift the one aspect that all share are am incision in and around each ear. One can debate whether the pre auricular incision goes in front of or behind the tragus but it will always wrap around the earlobe on its way to the back Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the cheek area is second only in frequency to that of the chin and jawline. But unlike the lower third of the face the term ‘cheek’ is imprecise when defining what a patient wants to accomplish and there are significant gender differences in what this term means. As the cheek area Read More…
Transfemale (transgender male to female ) breast augmentation poses its own unique set of challenges. Unlike the female chest the congenital males chest has tighter tissues, stronger sternal attachments of the pectoralis major muscle, a wider sternal gap and a more inferolateral position of the nipple areolar complex. In addition the nipple-areolar complex is usually Read More…
Background: The skull and head size can be aesthetically increased like almost every other external face and body feature. While fat injections have some role in fat and body augmentations their use in skull augmentations is very limited. And when it comes to skull augmentations of any significant size they are of no value at Read More…
Brow bone reduction surgery, today most commonly performed for forehead feminization, changes the prominence of the anterior wall of the frontal sinus. (brow bones) The prominence of the brow bones is caused by the development of the underlying frontal sinus which in men is greater than that of females. While typically thought of as a Read More…
In Type 1 rib removal surgery the primary goal is reduction in the length of the free floating ribs (#11 and #12) and any associated soft tissue thicknesses around them. The soft tissue removal can be two fold, flank fat by liposuction and latissimus dorsi (LD) muscle by excision. While rib removal surgery understandably has Read More…
Background: There are two basic autologous methods of changing the shape/position of the lower jaw. The sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) moves the body and symphysis bone while the sliding genioplasty (SG) repositions the symphysis (chin) bone. Both do so by cutting through the entire vertical length of the involved jaw bone done through 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...