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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 nose has a wide variety of shapes due to its complex composition of cartilage and bony structures. The tip of the nose represents the best example of that being formed by the intersection of five different cartilages including the septum, the lower alar cartilages and the upper alar cartilages. As a result how Read More…
Shoulder reduction is now a common procedure for those seeking a less wide or square shaped shoulders. This is done by removing a section of the straight portion of the clavicle and then reuniting the bones after the removal with plate and screw fixation. Since the clavicle a longitudinal bone that keeps the shoulder at Read More…
The custom chin implant is the most assured form of augmentation of the lower anterior third of the face. This approach is particularly needed when a specific chin size or shape is desired. Given the unique shape requirements of a square chin shape and the lack of a really effective standard square chin implant a Read More…
Pectoral implants are the only effective surgical method of chest muscle augmentation. They are typically placed through a high axillary incision for direct access to the submuscular pocket between the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. The creation of the submuscular pocket is done using instruments through the axillary incision and is essentially done blind Read More…
Background: Temporal hollowing results from lipoatrophy which can occur for a variety of reasons from aging to medical conditions. Variety methods have been used treat it, most of which are injectable, but the only permanent method are implants. Temporal implants are unique from all other aesthetic facial implants in that they are designed to augment Read More…
Background: Chin implants are the original form of aesthetic facial augmentation. Their design has always been primarily for horizontal augmentation with variable amounts of width increases built into different implant styles. While some patients have been recognized as needing some vertical height increases as well surgeons have typically used these horizontally projecting implants in a Read More…
Background: The sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull prominence whose presence is magnified in the male with short hair or a shaved head. The sagittal crest comes in a wide variety of presentations from a small bump to a long elongated ridge. In many sagittal crests the head shape has an inverted V shape Read More…
Implants provide a permanent method for augmentation of temporal hollowing. Placed at the sub fascial level they create a muscle augmentation effect as an interpositional material between the muscle and the overlying fascia. As of today there are two styles of standard temporal implants. For hollowing that is limited to the lower half of the Read More…
Chin augmentation is an aesthetic facial procedure that has been done for just about 100 years. The first reported procedure was done way back in 1928 using a cartilage graft to the chin. The use of carved ivory was also done in the early chin augmentation days. But the procedure never achieved any popularity in Read More…
Background: The concept of the sliding genioplasty is fairly straightforward. Cut the chin bone, move it forward and put a plate on it to hold it into place. While this is true there are numerous aesthetic and technical considerations involved that can make for a successful or unsuccessful aesthetic outcome. Such factors include what dimensional 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...