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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...
Cheek augmentation is a common facial reshaping surgery that can be done by a variety of different methods. Temporary synthetic injectable fillers, fat injections and bone-based implants are available midface augmentation techniques, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Surgeons may have their preferences but it is never such that one cheek augmentation methods works Read More…
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a well recognized collection of facial reshaping procedures that is largely reductive in nature. While most commonly associated with the male to female transgender patient, it also applies to non-transgender women who simply want to soften their facial features. It is a collection of mainly facial bony changes to reshape Read More…
Cheek implants are the one assured permanent method of midfacial structural enhancement. They have been available for clinical use for almost forty (40) years and numerous styles and sizes are available which has evolved over the years. While the biggest fear with cheek implants like any facial implant is infection, this is not the most Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant is the single most powerful procedure I have seen in facial reshaping surgery for many patients. Expanding the inferolateral bony contours of the lower jaw around its entire surface predictably creates a change in the shape of one’s face that creates a visible difference in the face-neck transition. Custom jawline Read More…
The use of Broad Band Light (BBL) therapy in the treatment of bruising has been used with variable amounts of success. (is the bruising resolution that occurs the result of the BBL treatment or just from the natural blood absorption process) Patients are understandably anxious about bruising, particularly in aesthetic facial surgery, so the desire Read More…
Cheekbone reduction surgery is a well known procedure that moves the width of the external cheek appearance inward. It is most commonly done with an intraoral anterior osteotomy through the main body of the zygoma combined with a percutaneous osteotomy through the posterior end of the zygomatic arch. This allows the cheekbone (zygomatic body and Read More…
Background: The breasts of a women are far from a static anatomic structure. Over a woman’s lifetime her breasts are exposed to a variety of deforming forces including tissue stretch from pregnancies, weight loss as well as gravity. How much damage the breasts will sustain depends on their initial size as well as the extent Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to multiple types of aesthetic concerns. Bony issues could include an isolated occipital knob, prominent nuchal ridges or areas of generalized flatness. Soft tissue issues are more limited and largely consist of soft tissues excesses known as horizontal scalp rolls. While often occurring as isolated issues, it Read More…
Aging affects all areas of the face for which there s no one single surgical procedure that simultaneously corrects all of them. The most known anti-aging surgery is the facelift, and while tremendously effective at improving the neck and jowls, its effects are more limited north of the lower third of the face. The sagging Read More…
The bilateral cleft lip deformity is challenging on many levels due to both loss and disruption of normal lip tissues. While the primary cleft lip repair in a baby is about creating a more normal looking cupid’s bow of adequate length and thickness (actually creating an intact upper lip), the older bilateral cleft lip patient 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...