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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 use of implants in the nose has a long history, some of which is checkered with complications. One of the very unique aspects of putting an implant in the nose is that its soft tissue cover is thin. Given the basic effect of placing a structurally stable and unchanging dimensions of a synthetic Read More…
Rib removal surgery for aesthetic waistline reduction is a newer body contouring procedure in plastic surgery. While talked about as an obscure surgery for decades and often thought to be a myth, it is an actual procedure with an established anatomic basis for its effect. It is typically perceived by patients and surgeons alike as Read More…
Human bones are well known to have a white color. This is seen as more white on skeletal models than in a live person where it is often more of an off white, grey white and rarely an off white with a yellowish hue. Such bone coloration comes from its calcium phosphate content which refracts Read More…
The concept of rib removal for waistline reduction is based on removing parts of the lower bony ribcage to allow the sides of the waistline to collapse inward. When looking at the length and angulation of ribs #11 and #12 in particular it is easy to appreciate how this effect can occur. As attached to Read More…
Pectoral implants, although far less commonly done than breast implants, share some similarities with its more well known female counterpart. The implant pocket location is almost the same (submuscular) and the location of the incision is one that is often used in breast implants as well. (transaxillary) But beyond these two similarities the male and Read More…
In all plastic surgery that involves the use of implants which are the workhorse of the operation, infection prevention is paramount. A common and prime example of this is breast implants. Placement of a breast implant is what makes breast augmentation work and is primarily responsible for the final aesthetic outcome. As as result patients Read More…
Cheek implants are a time-honored facial augmentation procedure that has been done almost as long as chin implants. With good patient and implant selection effective midface augmentation can be achieved. But the end result of cheek implant augmentation is only as good as the implant dimensions (shape and size) and its surgical placement. But even Read More…
The aging process affects the neck like the rest of the face in similar fashion with the development of loose skin and wrinkles due ti loss of collagen and the skin’s elasticty. Unlike the face such wrinkle lines are long and in a horizontal orientation developing perpendicular to the action of the platysma muscle. Treatment Read More…
Background: Macrogenia is a generic term that refers to a large chin. But large chins come in a wide variety of shapes and dimensional excesses which do not respond to a single type of chin reduction surgery. It becomes important therefore to assess each case of macrogenia individually to determine its tissue composition for which Read More…
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a diverse number of facial procedures that have one purpose…to reshape the face so that it can more identified as female. While each of the facial reshaping procedures can be technically completed, what counts is whether their collective effects can enable transwomen to be identified as female by their facial 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...