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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 positive experience is a known motivator on many levels. What it primarily does is make one want to repeat it. This is a well known customer service concept. In plastic surgery it is no different and that is what accounts for patients returning for additional aesthetic surgeries. If they had a good outcome with Read More…
Silicone breast implants have been available in two different shapes for well over a decade. Besides size (implant volume) and projection (height vs width), patients can also choose between shapes. (round vs anatomic) The name and concept of an anatomic breast implant is a very appealing one for patients, particularly those who seek a natural Read More…
Background: Patients seek augmentation of their head shape for a variety of reasons. For some it is correction of a flat or deformed head shape. For others it is to make a smaller head larger with a concomitant improvement in its shape. But regardless of the reason the limitation of the magnitude of the change Read More…
Background: The unilateral cleft lip and palate is the most common orofacial deformity. While the cleft through the lip and palate is the most obvious component to it, adjacent structures are also affected. This is very apparent in the nose with the classic depressed and widened nostril on the cleft side. The correction of the Read More…
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…
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...