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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...
Correction of a drooping or downward corner of the mouth can be done by both surgical and non-surgical methods. While Botox and injectable fillers can help lift the mouth corner, the only permanent method is surgical. The corner of the mouth lift has been around for decades of which my modification, the pennant technique, alleviates Read More…
Background: Injectable fillers have revolutionized aesthetic volume treatment options in the face. By being able to be placed beneath the skin by a needle or cannula they can be virtually injected almost anywhere. The limits to their placement is only adequate elasticity and thickness of the soft tissues to receive them. While over twenty brand Read More…
Background: Cheek augmentation is a common form of aesthetic midface enhancement and uses standard implant styles and sizes to do so. While effective in the properly selected patient, standard cheek implants are inadequate for cheek deficiencies that are more significant in scope, when cheek asymmetry exists or when a specific cheek look is desired. (e.g., Read More…
Background: The bones around the eye consist of three rim segments, supraorbital, lateral orbital and infraorbital rims. The medial aspect of the orbital bone that completes its circumference is not a convex rim of bone but a concave surface. All of the orbital rims can be aesthetically augmented of which the brow bones (supraorbital rim) Read More…
While reshaping of the nose is permanently done by a surgical rhinoplasty, temporary changes can be achieved with injectable fillers. While an injectable or non-surgical rhinoplasty can not accomplish the diverse number of changes that surgery can do, it can be effective in specific augmentative nose changes. Fillers work well for increasing tip projection, eliminating Read More…
Jaw angle implants are most commonly placed through an intraoral approach without visible external scars. With bilateral posterior vestibular incisions that are up out on the cheek opposite the 2nd molar tooth, subperiosteal dissection is done to elevate the masseter muscle off of the bone. Depending upon the type of jaw angle implant being used, Read More…
Bony jaw reduction consists of different techniques in the location and extent of lower facial reshaping than does masseter muscle reduction. Known as jaw shaving, jaw contouring, or most commonly V-line surgery, this collection of procedures removes bone from the length of the lower jaw to change its shape and size. Jaw bone reshaping can Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the lower jaw is traditionally done by standard chin and jaw angle implants. While effective in properly selected patients, standard implants are not ideal when jaw asymmetry exists. Standard jaw implants are best thought of as ‘spot’ methods of augmentation that work well when the three corners (chin and two jaw angles) Read More…
Rhinoplasty is one of the oldest procedures in plastic surgery as the well understood term ‘nosejob’ implies. One of the most basic maneuvers in this surgery is the reduction of a hump to achieve a straighter dorsal profile. Most techniques to reduce a hump are from the ‘top down’ by excision and the nasal bones Read More…
Occipital knob skull reduction is an aesthetic head reshaping procedure that removes a prominent inion. The inion is the small knob of bone that exists in everyone at the bottom of the occipital bone in the center to which the superficial neck muscle fibers attach. In some people, more commonly men, this knob of bone 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...