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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 definitive aesthetic jaw augmentation method is the custom jawline implant. Standard chin and jaw angles have their role in enhancing the shape of the lower face but they should be perceived as more corner enhancements of the jaw since they are not connected. Besides the ability to create/control the dimensions of the implant preoperatively Read More…
Surgical lip reshaping involve relocation of the vermilion border through either direct or indirect methods. The most recognized method is the well known subnasal lip lift (bullhorn lift) where the the amount of upper lip vermilion show is increased by removal of a strip of skin under the nose. This skin removal pulls the lip Read More…
Background: Amongst the numerous types of implants for aesthetic body augmentation the arms are the least commonly performed. Breasts, buttock, pectoral and calf implants make up the majority of augmentations while arm implants (shoulder, biceps, triceps) are done by comparison far less frequently. This is evidenced by lack of any FDA-appoved shoulder and arm implants. Read More…
Removal or modification of the lower ribcage is based on the premise that it provides structural support to the abdominal wall. This premise is anatomically supported by the numerous attachments of abdominal muscles to the free floating ribs. Ribs #s 11 and 12, also known as the vertebral ribs, have attachments to the anterolateral abdominal Read More…
Background: All areas of the skull can be aesthetically augmented with custom designed implants…the most effective method to do so. Augmenting the side of the head is unique, however, because most of it is covered by muscle and not bone. The most important landmark for the side of the head augmentation is the bony temporal Read More…
Background: There are a variety of raised bony skull areas that present aesthetic deformities which patients request to be reduced. One of the most common is the midline sagittal ridge. While it could occur anywhere along the length of the sagittal suture, and may even involve the entire length of the suture, but most commonly Read More…
Augmentation of the upper third of the face is ideally done with a custom forehead implant design. In creating these designs one of its considerations is whether the augmentation should stop at the bony temporal line or does it need to extend onto the temporal muscle area at the side of the forehead. As a Read More…
Background: Augmenting the upper third of the face often requires a custom implant approach to be optimally effective. There are obvious gender differences in forehead augmentation in which many more men need brow bone coverage than do women. Females rarely need brow bone augmentation with the extension of the implant design in that area for Read More…
Background: Lipomas are a commonly occurring benign subcutaneous soft tissue tumor that occurs almost anywhere on the body. Many external appearing bumps or masses which feel soft can be presumed to be a lipoma. Once they appear they do tend to grow although such expansion is very slow and painless to the patient. A biopsy Read More…
Background: Pectoral implants are the seemingly male equivalent of the female breast implant. And while they are both gender-specific chest enhancement procedures that general concept is where the similarity stops. Pectoral implants have major differences from breast implants is that they are made of solid silicone, are intended to be a completely muscular enhancing implant 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...