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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...
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…
Background: Changes to the tip of the nose are a frequent part of many rhinoplasty surgeries. A typical full rhinoplasty incorporates changes from the bony upper part of the nose down through and including the tip of the nose. Contemporary rhinoplasty surgery is based on adding structural support to reshaped areas, particularly the tip, to Read More…
Undereye hollows are a common periorbital condition due to either aging, congenital development or both. They represent an anatomic deformity of which one major component is loss of volume. They are exacerbated when an infraorbital rim-cheek skeletal deficiency is also present. They are very much the antithesis of lower eyelid bags which are an excess Read More…
Background: V line surgery is a well known bony jaw reduction/reshaping procedure. In its most traditional form it is an amputation of the inferior border of the jaw from the jaw angles up to the side of the chin. The greatest amount of bone is vertically removed from the jaw angles and becomes less as 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...