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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...
In Type 1 rib removal surgery the primary goal is reduction in the length of the free floating ribs (#11 and #12) and any associated soft tissue thicknesses around them. The soft tissue removal can be two fold, flank fat by liposuction and latissimus dorsi (LD) muscle by excision. While rib removal surgery understandably has Read More…
Background: There are two basic autologous methods of changing the shape/position of the lower jaw. The sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) moves the body and symphysis bone while the sliding genioplasty (SG) repositions the symphysis (chin) bone. Both do so by cutting through the entire vertical length of the involved jaw bone done through its Read More…
Background: While testicle implants have been available and used for decades their aesthetic effects have not always been good. I have seen and replaced many testicle implants placed for reconstruction and the reasons for replacement have always been the same. It is a classic triad of symptoms that includes implants that are too small, too Read More…
Background: Chin implants historically were the original jaw augmentation procedure. That remained so until the introduction of the jaw angle implant in the 1990s which provided the ability to augment another part of the lower jaw. But jaw angle implants never really became as popular as chin implants for a variety of reasons, much of Read More…
Background: The skull is composed of five surfaces that together make up the total shape of the head. Three of them are pure bony in composition and are sagittal in orientation, the front (forehead), top of the head, and back of the head. The paired sides of the head make up the other two and Read More…
Background: The appearance of an ultra fit abdomen is the ability to see the outline of the rectus muscles. While the rectus muscle is vertical in orientation it is sectioned into quadrants by horizontal tendinous fascial bands known as inscriptions. There are three in number usually located across the belly button inferiorly, the xiphoid process Read More…
Background: Augmentation of aesthetic facial deformities are common procedures of which the lower third of the face (chin and jaw) is the most common. Augmentations of the upper two-thirds of the face is also done although lesser in number with the middle third of the face (cheeks, midface) being done more often than the upper Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to the greatest frequency of aesthetic shape deformations. This is no surprise given that the back of the head is exposed to the greatest amount of external forces from how the fetus lays in utero to how the baby lays after birth and beyond. When this is Read More…
Background: The periorbital rim of bone around the eye can be aesthetically augmented but how it can be done is not well known. The only standard orbital rim implant is the tear trough implant, a limited spot implant of the infraorbital rim. Its original use was to treat an external indentation at the inner half Read More…
Brow lift surgery has been around for over a half century and numerous techniques have been described in how to perform it. Regardless of the technique used the fundamental approach has been differences in how the technique is applied based on gender. The differences in the shape of the female vs male eyebrow shape is 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...