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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...
Background: The hip area is prone to contour indentations particularly in lean or thinner patients. While some patients may want larger hips over the flat or convex hips that they have, others want to treat a specific hip contour deformity. Located between the bony iliac crest and the prominence of the greater trochanter of the Read More…
Background: The occipital bone is one of eight cranial bones that make up the skull. It makes up the lower half of the visible back of head but what is seen is less than half of its entire size. The rest goes under the neck muscles and wraps around the vertebrae and spinal cord. Given Read More…
In large skull augmentations there is a necessity for expanding the scalp to accommodate its volume. This is done by a first stage scalp expander process using a specially designed ‘balloon’ that acts much like the pregnancy process. While the expander requires surgical placement the expansion process is done by the patient over the following Read More…
Background: Strong chin augmentation effects in men requires variations of standard types of procedures. The interpretation of what a strong chin augmentation means is open to individual interpretation. While usually referring to the amount of forward chin projection, with or without vertical lengthening, it may also be referring to a less round or more square Read More…
Background: Rib removal for a waist narrowing effect, while once an obscure and purported unsafe aesthetic procedure, is now becoming more commonly done. As a result there have become a variety of methods to do so which fundamentally come down to fracture vs excisional techniques. There are and will continue to be debates about which Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation using an implant is the most common form of facial bone enhancement. The chin implants used have been around for over 50 years. Interestedly most of the style of available chin implants styles have changed little since then. Almost all chin implants have an extended design or have long wings that extend Read More…
Background: Hip augmentation is one of the last aesthetic body contouring areas to be more fully developed. Past and current efforts have looked at how the hips are perceived in many females where there is a relationship between the buttocks and the hip at both the anatomic and aesthetic levels. BBL surgery has brought the Read More…
Background: The concept of skull reduction is like the reduction of almost any skeletal structure in the body…there are limits. The length and thickness of the anatomy is one controlling factor along with how well the overlying soft tissues shrink and contract down around the reduced bone. Thus most aesthetic reductions have to be given Read More…
The nostrils are essentially the only non-osteocartilaginous part of the nose that can be surgically modified. While the lower alar cartilages do provide some structural support this is closer to the tip than the nostril base. The lateral or base of the nose is composed only of soft tissues regardless of how wide or narrow Read More…
Pelvic Plasty is a skeletal-based form of hip augmentation that increases pelvic bone width. The postoperative swelling and discomfort it causes is not particularly different from hip implant augmentation in general. There will be drains placed at the end of the surgery that will need to be in place for a few days after the 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...