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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...
Like the nose, the chin is a major component of the facial profile. Surgically more rhinoplasties are performed for aesthetic facial improvements than chin reshaping procedures. But this speaks more to the combined functional and complex aesthetic deformities caused by the nose compared to the isolated aesthetic effects of the chin which is structurally simpler Read More…
One of most common forms of forehead reshaping surgery is augmentation of the brow ridges and frontal bone. Many more women than men historically undergo forehead augmentation surgery, most likely because of hairline and hair density issues. But some men still have the procedure as they value the improvement of their frontal skull/forehead shape as Read More…
Background: The shape of the tip of the nose is controlled by its underlying cartilaginous structure. Between the caudal end of the septum and the paired overlying lower alar cartilages, the shape of the tip of the nose and the nostrils are formed. Given the many variances of the size of these cartilage and how Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of temporal hollowing, like most forms of facial augmentation, is most commonly done using injectable fillers and fat. This is certainly appropriate given that temporal hollowing is a soft tissue deformity and not as a result of a bone defect or deficiency. While different forms of such injectates exists and their advantages Read More…
Background: Cartilage grafting is an essential element of many rhinoplasties. Such cartilage grafts are used for two main purposes, structural support and augmentation. For most structural support needs (e.g., columellar strut, spreader grafts) the septal harvest site is usually adequate which may be supplemented by ear grafts. These graft harvest sites are also adequate for Read More…
Background: In the effort to create a more defined face on the younger patient, the combination of skeletal augmentation and soft tissue reduction remains the main efforts to do so. While there are different ways to consider augmenting the facial bones, the definitive, most powerful and long-lasting are implants that push the soft tissues off Read More…
Fat transfer is tremendously popular as a material option for facial voluminization. Almost any patient has adequate donor material and as an autologous graft there are no real medical downsides to using it. The face is a well vascularized recipient site so, in theory, injected fat should survive well. But as we all know such Read More…
Of all of the lip augmentation strategies, lip advancements are the most effective for very thin lips but the least commonly performed. Also known as vermilion advancements, as that is what they literally do, they physically move the vermilion outward. As a result they create much more exposed vermilion from one mouth corner to the Read More…
A variety of implants are available to augment the jawline and lower third of the face. Standard chin and jaw angle implants have been available for decades and one piece custom jawline implants have become more recently used. The most powerful of the two is the custom jawline implant as it expands the entire inferolateral Read More…
Background: The outside shape and appearance of the nose is directly influenced by the underlying ostecartilaginous framework. This is seen from the paired nasal bones in the upper third of the nose to the complex cartilage structure of the nasal tip. This is also true for the open spaced of the nostril which is border 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...