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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: Reduction of a prominent thyroid cartilage is technically known as a chondrothyroplasty. It is better known as a tracheal shave and it gets its name because the prominence is indeed shaved down with a scalpel. This is possible because the thyroid prominence is cartilage which only gets much harder later in life. The tracheal Read More…
The most common approach for jaw angle implant placement is intraoral. This not only avoids an external approach but provides the widest exposure of the mandibular ramus. This incision is made through a posterior vestibular mucosal incision. There are various thoughts on where it should be placed directly into the depth of the vestibule or Read More…
Efforts to avoid undergoing facelift surgery are understandable from a patient’s viewpoint. This has lead to a wide variety of less surgical to non-surgical methods promoting variables degrees of facial rejuvenation outcomes. Whether it be tissue tightening, volume expansion or an actual lifting effect, the term facelift is often applied to these methods From a Read More…
The development of retraction or lid sag is the risk that every open procedure done on the lower eyelid risks. Despite known efforts to prevent it, such as lateral cantopexies, limited skin resection and orbicularis muscle resuspension, it can still develop in some patients. Many mild cases that occur right after surgery in a patient Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries come in an almost endless variety of bone and soft tissue compositions. Many are congenital/developmental in origin and some are iatrogenic. (caused by surgery or trauma) Evaluation of facial asymmetries is done through a combination of physical, pictorial and 3D CT scanning. While not a big surface area of the face, orbital Read More…
Custom design facial implants offer the opportunity to produce the most significant changes to the skeletal structure of the face. While not true in every case, many times these implants are far bigger and cover more bony surface area than that of standard facial implants. By virtue of being larger they can be more challenging Read More…
Background: The facelift is the workhorse of the treatment of lower facial aging. Changing the neck angle and smoothing out the jawline is what the operation primarily accomplishes. But it is not an ‘all or none’ type procedure. Facelift techniques can be modified, and should be, for the extent of the facial aging that is Read More…
It is common for all plastic surgeons to see patients that have had prior surgical procedures of which they did not have a desired outcome. In seeing these patients some will have had a good relationship with their surgeon, and while not pleased with their outcome, they speak well of their plastic surgeon and his/her Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant provides the greatest contour change possible to the lower third of the face. That is not surprising due to its sheer size and surface area coverage of the mandible. The design process is impressive and empowering as it is possible to design about any size and dimensions that the patient Read More…
Background: The center part of the upper lip has the most complex anatomy of the perioral region. With vertical philtral columns and a horizontally oriented Cupid’s bow, there is a ‘valley’ that lies between them. This upper lip concavity does not have a specific name but can be called the philtral dip or the central 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...