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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...
The sliding genioplasty is a well known and effective chin reshaping procedure. Besides being an autologous chin augmentation method its value lies in its ability to make multi-dimensional changes particularly in the horizontal and vertical projections. But in so doing it does create an abnormal shape to the normal lazy S-shaped bony profile of the Read More…
The most powerful form of aesthetic jaw augmentation is the custom jawline implant. It is so effective because it increases the dimensions of the entire jawline up to the limit of the overlying soft tissues in a three-dimensional fashion. The soft tissue limits are a function of how comfortably the implant fits into a fully Read More…
Background: The tip of the nose is the most common area that is changed in many rhinoplasty surgeries. It is an anatomically complex structure of the nose due to the merging of the paired lower alar cartilages and the midline septum. This cartilage confluence is frequently referred to as a tripod concept from an architectural Read More…
Background: Cheek augmentation historically is a a fairly uniform facial augmentation concept using standard implants. But contemporary cheek augmentation is a much more diverse form of midface augmentation due to the use of custom facial implant designs. Anatomically the cheek is a mixed bone and soft tissue area of the midface but it also connects Read More…
Background: A high or prominent sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull shape concern. Theoretically it can appear anywhere along the length of the congenital sagittal suture line from the bregma anteriorly to the lambda posteriorly. But in all cases I have ever seen it occurs from the bregma back to the crown of the Read More…
Hip implants are unique amongst all aesthetic body implants. Their vertical orientation in a more superficial tissue pocket location is what separates it from other body implants. Any extremity (arm and leg) implant does also have a periodic vertical orientation but those implants are either in the subfascial or submuscular pockets which provide better implant Read More…
Background: Of all aesthetic body implants they greatest unfulfilled need is for a hip implant. While historically the concept of hip augmentation was unknown today between cultural changes in aesthetic body shapes and the ubiquity of BBL surgery, to name the top two reasons, the desire for hip augmentation has become common. As an extension Read More…
Background: While often not appreciated correction of a narrow head width can be achieved today by various custom implant designs. But the term ‘head widening’ is a general one and must be qualified for each patient as to exactly what that means. There are two basic types of head widening requests…those that look to achieve Read More…
Background: The LeFort osteotomy is an effective surgical method for certain types of midface augmentation. How much augmentation effect is achieved depends on the amount of horizontal movement that the bone is moved. But the aesthetic effects of the LeFort I osteotomy is limited to the dentoalveolar level…meaning the upper lip and central nasal base Read More…
Background: The desire for aesthetic skull augmentation can be for multiple skull shape concerns. In females one of the most common is for an increased crown of the head height. There is often a predicate history of hairstyle methods to increase the appearance of the crown of head height, which can be successful, but involves 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...