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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 width of the shoulders is impacted by several tissue factors including muscle and bone. But none is more significant than the length of the clavicles which separates the sternum from the shoulder joint. For this reason shoulder width reduction, what is also known as shoulder feminization, is achieved by shortening the length of the Read More…
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is largely a bony reductive approach to reshaping the face. Reversing the male facial skeletal features focuses on the prominences of the forehead, brow bones, chin and jaw angles. The techniques to do so are well known and widely used. Such facial bone reshaping is largely an art form in that Read More…
The shape of the forehead is very gender specific. Besides the presence of prominent brow bones in males) and a flatter brow area in females, the shape of the forehead above it is also different. A male forehead is associated with a more recessed upper forehead back into then hairline while the feminine forehead has Read More…
Background: In many aspects the shape of the buttocks is similar to that of the breasts. They are both soft tissue mounds that sit on the side the body with a muscular base. Both can have different mound sizes from to small to large that are subject to the effects of gravity and weight loss Read More…
Background: The shape of the nose is a combination of the form of its osteocartilaginous framework and the thickness of the overlying skin. The skin plays a major role in the appearance of the nose particularly as the nasal skin becomes thicker. But regardless of thick or thin nasal skin rhinoplasty surgery is about changing Read More…
Reduction of prominent jaw angles can be done by two different surgical techiques based on the dimensional changes needed. The most common technique in most Asian patients is a full thickness removal or bicortical removal of the jaw angle extending forward to the chin. The key to this full thickness bone cut is for it Read More…
The sliding genioplasty procedure is an effective method of horizontal and/or vertical chin augmentation changes. In doing so the natural shape of the chin bone is changed from a smooth convex side profile to a much different sharply angled step configuration. While this shape change does to affect its ability to heal, even though there Read More…
Background: The external appearance of the face is highly influenced by its bony foundation. While the overlying soft tissue also makes important contributions the overall gestalt of the face is framed by its skeletal structure. Such influences are well known by many of the basic gender differences in the male and female face and is Read More…
The use of a sliding genioplasty for chin reshaping dates back half a century and is the most recognized facial osteotomy procedure. Unlike jaw surgery which affects the tooth-bearing part of the jaw and introduces some restrictions with mouth opening, downfracturing the mandibular symphysis (chin) does not. The chin bone is the only true aesthetic Read More…
Background: Despite its anatomic makeup of multiple bones, the shape of the skull is largely smooth with a convex contour over the its bony areas and minimal convexity or flatness at the sides. From an aesthetic standpoint the head or skull shape is viewed as five distinct units; forehead, top of head, back of head 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...