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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 earlobe is an important component of the aesthetics of the ear. While occupying the smaller non-cartilaginous portion of the ear, it has a variety of semi-circular shapes as well as different attachments to the side of the face. While there are no accepted aesthetic standards for many of these earlobe features, the one Read More…
A wrap around jawline implant that has been custom made is the best method for augmenting the skeletal lower third of the face. It does so because of the surface area that it covers, expanding the skeletal contours of the lower third of the face. Like all implants in the face and body, its augmentation Read More…
Background: Mant types of aesthetic breast ‘deformities’ present in the breast augmentation patient. Issues such as breast asymmetry, sagging, wide sternal spacing, lateralization of the breast round and horizontal nipple asymmetries are the most common. Each present their own challenges and potential aesthetic distractions from an ideal breast augmentation result. One potential aesthetic nipple concern Read More…
Background: While chin augmentation by any method dominates aesthetic chin surgery, there remans a need for chin reduction even if its overall demand is less. While the need for chin reduction surgery is less, this does not mean it is easy or more successful than chin augmentation surgery. In fact the exact opposite is true…chin Read More…
Whether one’s eyes are too close together or too far apart is an occasional question that I get from prospective patients for correction. While there are numerous camouflage maneuvers that can make the eyes appear closer together (inner eye corner repositioning, nasal bridge augmentation), there are no such camouflage procedures that can make the eyes Read More…
While cheek implants are of the most commonly performed synthetic facial augmentation procedures, they are unique in several ways. One of their unique features is that they are typically placed in an upward direction from below (intraoral) and are positioned essentially ‘on the side of a clift’ so to speak. Laying up against the prominence Read More…
Background: The youthful neck in a male has few surface landmarks to make it distinguishable. Men will almost always have some laryngeal prominence which is gender specific as most females do not. This laryngeal prominence is known as the Adam’s apple and it occurs in men because the hormonal influences make the angle of the Read More…
Background: What defines a masculine face is a well defined skeletal structure. This skeletal structure involves the facial bones that have a natural linear or convex shape (cheeks and jawline) as opposed to those that have a natural concavity. (maxilla and pyriform aperture) The more prominent that the cheeks and jawline are the more masculine Read More…
Background: The most commonly performed aesthetic ear procedure (not including the repair of earlobe tears) is a s setback otoplasty. Done for correction of the protruding ears, various cartilage manipulations are done on the back of the ear to bend the cartilage and move the ear inward so its protrusion from the side of the Read More…
The size and shape of the forehead occupies the entire upper third of the face. It is the flattest real estate of the face and is surrounded on all sides by some form of hair. The vertical length of the forehead is the distance between the frontal hairline and the eyebrows and is considered excessive 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...