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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...
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…
The shape of the chin is a classic gender-defining facial feature. While the chin has numerous dimensional aspects to it, the frontal view of it is the most gender specific dimension. Broader and more square chin shapes are identified as masculine while a slender and more tapered chin shape would be seen as more feminine. Read More…
The facelift operation is one of the most recognizable anti-aging facial surgeries. Since its inception over one hundred years ago, when it got its original name of rhytidectomy or the excision of facial wrinkles, it has undergone many technique advancements and variations. Many of these have been done on what lies under the skin with Read More…
Cheek implants have been around for decades gong back to the 1970s. Their styles have evolved into malar, submalar and combined malar-submalar (malar shell) designs. They can be used in the younger patient for aesthetic cheek augmentation as well as in the older patients to create a form of a midface lift and voluminization effect. Read More…
Background: Augmenting the entire jawline in a smooth and continuous fashion provides the most comprehensive and significant result in lower facial reshaping. It bypasses anything standard chin and jaw angle implants can do with their three corner spot augmentation approach. This effect is more than just about dimensions and as much about surface coverage. While Read More…
Rhinoplasty surgery is fundamentally about changing the osteocartilaginous anatomy of the nose. The end result is a function of those structural changes and the overlying skin’s ability to shrink down and contact around the modified support to show it. It is well known by plastic surgeons and even many patients that the thicker the skin Read More…
One not uncommon form of skull reduction surgery is that of the occipital knob. This is a region of the central lower occipital skull that everyone has…but most of the time it is a small barely raised bone area that is not seen etxternally and barely palpable. But in some people. almost exclusively men, this Read More…
A custom jawline implant is the proven most effective method to change the lower third of one’s face. By providing total coverage of the entire jawline it changes the entire contour of the inferolateral aspect of the lower jaw from one jaw angle to the other jaw angle. Designed from the patient’s 3D CT scan, 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...