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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...
A very common location for custom skull implants is on the back of the head.(occiput) The occipital skull is prone to a variety of shape deformations that can occur from in utero to postnatal effects. Flattening of one side or both sides on the back of the head is not uncommon and becomes most apparent Read More…
Background: Every bone on the face is capable of being underdeveloped and presents different aesthetic issues based on the area affected. The eye area is no different. One of the common periorbital skeletal deficiencies is that of the lower eyelid bone or infraorbital rim. Infraorbital rim recession may occur in isolation ut more commonly extends Read More…
Background: The back of the skull, known as the occiput, often differs in shape from the other skull bony surfaces. Due to the attachments of the thick neck muscles, the inferior surface of the occiput can have bony ‘irregularities’. Such raised bony areas are a result of the ‘form follows function’ anatomic principle where the Read More…
Custom skull implants are done for a very wide array of skull shape issues. They can be very large, almost covering the entire skull, to being quite small and discrete in surface area coverage. But regardless of their size, they all require a scalp incision to place them. The scalp incision may, on the surface, Read More…
Background: Chin implants are the oldest form of bone-based augmentation and still the most common facial implant done. While effectively providing increased chin projection it is really an isolated jaw augmentation that only changes less than 1/3 of the entire jawline outer surface area. For this reason there is growing interest in a more complete Read More…
Background: Make chest enlargement or gynecomastia has a variety of different presentations. How much breast tissue enlargement, the amount of loose skin on the chest wall and the position of the nipple all influence the type of gynecomastia reduction technique that will be used. Most gynecomastia techniques employ either direct excision by an areolar incision, Read More…
Migraines headaches affect a significant percent of the population for which there is no one single effective treatment. One advance in the the treatment of migraines has been the discovery of peripheral compression points at sensory nerve exits of the skull and the refinement in the techniques for their surgical decompression. In the properly selected Read More…
Background: Chin augmentations are successful performed by standard implants in the vast majority of patients. This is due to the moderate nature of most chin deficiencies which are in the range of 3 to 7mms for sufficient aesthetic improvement. The concept of standard sizes of available implants is to address the range of aesthetic deformities Read More…
The tummy tuck is the most dramatic reshaping method of the lower abdomen for many women after they are finished having children. In the traditional execution of the procedure a skin and fat segment is removed between the hip points with the upper end of the incision going above the umbilicus. This results in the Read More…
Cheek augmentation for some patients today incorporates the infraorbital rim as well. This provides a more complete midface augmentation effect that extends from the inside of the eye all the way around the zygomatic arch. This creates a ‘high cheek” look and is a frequent request of the young male patient. Given that no standard 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...