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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: The proportions of the face are well known and are divided into thirds. This can be assessed in its the frontal and profile views as it is a vertical assessment. While this is not the only way to assess how balanced the face is it is one of the most obvious and basic that Read More…
Background: The well known sliding genioplasty is a versatile chin reshaping procedure due to its capability of multidimensional movements. While most known for ‘sliding’ the chin bone forward (increased horizontal projection) it is capable of changing the vertical height of the chin (longer or shorter) as well as its width. This capability of change is Read More…
Background: One of the most well known aesthetic skull deformities is plagiocephaly. One of the hallmarks of this skull shape abnormality is a flattened side of the back of the head. While the degree of occipital flattening varies widely most patients are other ed when the degree of bone angulation when seen from above exceeds Read More…
Background: Chin implant surgery is the historically and still today the most commonly performed facial augmentation procedure. All contemporary chin implants, regardless of their style, are intended to provide a horizontal augmentative effect. In essence the implant is designed to be placed on the front edge of the chin bone just down to the inferior Read More…
Background: The skull develops and is composed of multiple plates of bone that are connected by various suture lines. Developmentally the suture lines have the immediate effect of allowing bone overlap so the head can get through the birth canal. Secondarily it allows the skull bones to grow with the expanding brain and, once its Read More…
Background: Almost every maneuver done in a rhinoplasty procedure is about changing its bony or cartilage framework support. By doing so the overlying skin adapts over the altered framework and eventually shows the new shape of the nose. The one exception to framework change in rhinoplasty is in the management of nostril width. While the Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries can be as variable as the features on a person’s face. They can be caused by hypoplasia (undergrowth) or hyperplasia (oevrgrowth) or they can affect the upper part of the face most severely and less so at the bottom…and vice versa. While the lateral features of the face are the most significantly Read More…
Jaw angle augmentation with implants has become popular both as an isolated procedure as well as part of total jawline augmentation. In placing implants over the bony jaw angle region it is necessary to elevate the internal surface of the masseter muscle off of the bone. And in some cases when the implant needs to Read More…
The custom design and manufacturing process allows a virtual unlimited number of facial implant styles and sizes to be created. There is almost no implant shape that this process can not make if desired. Unlike standard facial implants, whose effects are limited by their smaller shapes and sizes, custom facial implants allow their resultant external Read More…
The temporal area is a unique facial implant site for augmentation because it is not a skeletally based implant site and technically is not on the face. It is really augmentation of the temporal muscle, whether it is the non-hair bearing traditional temporal hollows (anterior temporal zone) or the hair-covered posterior temporal zone above and 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...