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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: Skull reshaping is a general term that applies to a variety of surgical techniques designed to alter the shape of the head into a more pleasing shape as desired by the patient. Fundamentally these techniques come down to augmentation by custom designed skull implants and reduction by outer table skull bone removal. While often Read More…
Background: Cheek implants have been around for nearly fifty years and their basic styles have largely remained the same. Malar, submalar and combinations thereof (aka shell implants) have been the mainstay of implant-based cheek augmentation which can be effective for many patients. In an otherwise normal volume face these implants work best in women and Read More…
Background: The most common form of cheek or midface augmentation is with the use of injectable materials. While fat is the most frequently used method of surgical injections as it is often performed along with other procedures, synthetic fillers even exceeds the use of fat because it is non-surgical. A wide variety of synthetic filler Read More…
The face is prone to a variety of aesthetic skeletal deficiencies of which the most common is that of the chin. Because it is a solitary projecting structure on the front edge of the lower face it is easy to recognize a deficiency as it also has an effect on the shape of the neck. Read More…
Custom skull implants are the definitive method of any type of significant aesthetic skull augmentation. With a design based on the patient’s 3D CT scan implants can be designed to achieve almost type of head augmentation a patient desires. (provided the implant volume does not exceed the scalp’s ability to stretch to safely accommodate it) Read More…
Background: The forehead is the most visible part of the face and skull because of its large non-hair bearing surface area. While its coverage area is broad it does not have a flat shape nor does it have a completely vertical slope. In men the forehead usually has a slight backward angulation particularly at the Read More…
Background: The occipital bone on the back of the head has a trapezoidal shape that forms the lower and back part of the cranium. It is not a snoot bone and has various ridges and prominences due to the attachment of numerous neck muscles. But there is one often seen and well described bump on Read More…
Background: Bony prominences of the skull can occur anywhere on its five surfaces in wide variety of shapes and sizes. But there are some consistent types of bony protrusions seen on each skull surface. These include sagittal crests on the top of the head, occipital buns and knobs on the back of the head, bossing Read More…
Rib removal surgery is the internal framework modification approach for waistline reduction/narrowing. While much focus is on the removal or changes in shape of the lower ribcage, particularly the unattached #11 and 12 ribs, there are other tissue reductions that are done as well. At least this is true in the rib removal approach but Read More…
While implants have been used to aesthetically augment the lower two-thirds of the face, less implant augmentations have been done in the upper third of the face in the forehead. The main reason, of course, is that there are historically no standard forehead implants available and part of the reason for this is that the 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...