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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...
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…
The side of the head, also known as the temporal region, is composed of bone and muscle of various proportions. The posterior temporal region (above the ear) is about equally composed of both bone and muscle and is the thinner than than that of the anterior region. Even though it is thinner the posterior temporal Read More…
The masseter is the largest muscle on the face that has its bony origin and insertion there. It is a muscle that needs to be elevated by subperiosteal dissection for any form of jaw angle surgery including implants. While lifting the muscle up is a seemingly innocuous maneuver there is always the risk of it Read More…
Otoplasty or ear reshaping surgery has been done for over a century. The most reason it is performed in children or in adults is for ears that stick out. (protruding ears) The operation primarily consists of reshaping the ear cartilages by the placement of sutures on the backside of the ear. Such an operation is Read More…
V-line jaw reduction is a lower facial contouring procedure that is popular in Asian patients, although not limited exclusively to them. By the intraoral method through which most of these surgeries are done, it is challenging to get good symmetry and the desired amount of reduction of the entire jawline on both sides. As a Read More…
Background: The skull has a complex shape and can have potentially a wide range of shape deformities. One of the most common is that of plagiocephaly….or a twisted skull. This is most manifest in the back of the head with one side flatter than the other. This may or may not be associated with bulging 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...