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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 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…
Forehead augmentation is sought after by both men and women almost equally. Men typically seek the procedure to either correct a retroclined forehead slope or develop an overall stronger with more prominent brow bones. Women usually seek to have a rounder and more convex forehead with increased verticality. (i.e., the forehead is too flat or Read More…
Background: While the ribs are designed to provide protection and support of the lungs and other internal organs, there are instances where their very structure can be a source of pain. This is most relevant in ribs #11 and #12 which are both unattached on their anterior ends and point very obliquely downward. One source Read More…
A more prominent brow bone is an almost exclusive male aesthetic feature. While all men have some semblance of a brow bone, some are less defined due to lack of frontal sinus development than others. There are no preformed brow bone implants commercially available and making them by hand out of various materials works so Read More…
Of all custom facial implants made, the need for custom nasal implant designs is rare. They are so uncommon that in the near 1,000 custom facial implants I have ever designed and implanted, I have only performed a custom nasal implant twice. Due to the wide array of preformed nasal implants in both dorsal 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...