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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: The brow bones are an important aesthetic feature of the male face. Some mild ‘protrusion’ of them, and the presence of a visible brow bone break, is an identifying and attractive male feature. But when the amount of brow bone protrusion becomes too strong or prominent it becomes a dominant facial feature that is Read More…
Background: There are four access incisions in which to place breast implants. (inframammary, areolar, axillary and umbilical) Each has their own advantages and disadvantages as well as surgical advocates and opponents. Such a varied number of approaches indicates that neither one is perfect and each can potentially work well with good technique. The axillary or Read More…
Background: Undereye hollows is a very common aesthetic issue for both young and older patients alike. In older patients it is often a function of soft tissue atrophy that exposes the underlying orbital bone, creating a skeletonized appearance. Conversely in the younger patient it is more a function of a hard tissue deficiency rather than Read More…
Chin implants are the most historic of all facial implants. As a result they have been through the greatest number of design changes and resultant size availabilities. Initial introduced a button shape the biggest design advancement came in the 1990s with the introduction of extended anatomic designs. This was a logical extension of the implant’s Read More…
Custom jawline implants represent the most complete approach to augmenting a deficient lower third of the face. Wrapping around the entirety of the mandible they expand the inferolateral border creating a more defined jawline in a 3D dimensional fashion. Part of their success lies not only in their design but how well they are placed Read More…
Background: The features that make for a strong or masculine face are always skeletal in nature. The convex contours of the face, the infraorbital-malar and the jawline, provide the silhouette of a defined and more angular face. The convex contours, the so called trampoline area that lies between these two contour lines, helps add to Read More…
Brow bone reduction is typically associated with two types of patients which are equally split in numbers in my experience. The first is the male who has very strong brow bones, Neanderthal-like, that sticks out very strongly. The second is the transgender male to female patient who also has prominent brow bones due to their Read More…
Background: Changing the shape of the lower face is most effectively done by skeletal augmentation. While injectable filers and fat has a valuable role to play in enhancing facial volumes, they are not effective ‘perimeter’ augmentation methods. They are too soft to create a sharp line of demarcation which is what is needed in jawline Read More…
Background: Correction of the protruding ear is the most common ear reshaping procedure done that involves cartilage manipulation. While it can be done at any age, it is perfectly acceptable to do otoplasty at a very young age. It has been shown that even as young as age two, no adverse long-term effects occur to Read More…
Background: The ear has a complex shape which is exposed to a variety of congenital deformities. The most severe congenital ear deformity is that of microtia in which the ear is either severely deformed or even largely missing. In most cases remnants of the ear are present but it is significantly misshapen and shrunken in 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...