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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: 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…
Augmentation of the central midface generally refers to increasing the projection of the bony pyriform rim. This is the central maxillary bone that surrounds the large nasal cavity opening that lies underneath the external nose. It is most commonly referred to as the paranasal region. Its shape into the surrounding midface has either a flatter Read More…
Jaw reduction is a generic term for a variety of lower facial reshaping procedures. Often lumped into one general category, the reality is that a variety of bone and muscle reshaping procedures are available to create a lower jaw that appears more narrow or slimmer. While these jaw reduction procedures are done for largely an Read More…
While custom jawline or jaw wraparound implants produce the most dramatic changes of the lower face, they face challenges in both their design and placement. How they should be best designed to achieve a patient’s desired jaw shape is both an art and a science. There are specific guidelines that I use based both on Read More…
The Golden Ratio is a well known mathematical concept that has long been described as an essential component of beauty in nature. It is a controversial concept in terms of whether it truly exists in whatever one is studying whether it is anatomy or architecture. The Golden Ratio concept has been recently applied to the Read More…
Background: The chin is a jutting facial feature that has three distinct dimensions. Horizontal projection, vertical height and transverse width are all chin features that can clearly be discerned. Because it is a protruding 3D structure, changing one of the dimensions will visually cause a change in the other ones. For example if the chin Read More…
Background: The forehead in a male has visible brow bone prominences, a supra brow bone break and a slight backward slope to the forehead. The backward slope is anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees and the side to side contour has limited convexity. The amount of horizontal brow bone prominence is in the range of Read More…
Background: Chin ptosis occurs from a variety of reasons, most of which are iatrogenic…meaning it coms from prior chin surgery. The most common form of aesthetic chin surgery that leads to soft tissue pad ptosis is reversal of a prior augmentation. Whether this is the removal of an implant or the partial or total reversal 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...