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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...
Clavicle reduction osteotomies are an effective procedure for changing the width or wide shape of the shoulders. It is a conceptually straightforward procedure at its most basic level is linear in nature….remove a segment of the clavicle and putting it back together will move the shoulders inward. Its effectiveness depends on getting the two ends Read More…
Background: Chin implants have the longest history of all aesthetic facial implants and is not rare to occasionally come across a patient with an ‘old’ chin implant from many decades ago. In the vast majority of these cases it will be a silicone implant and it is possible to see various iterations of earlier generation Read More…
Alloplastic breast augmentation has always been done by two fundamental types of implants, silicone and saline. Each implant type has their advantage and disadvantages. Silicone breast implants can feel more natural and do not suffer spontaneous failure (deflation) but usually cost more and have the rare risks of adverse immunologic reactions to them. Conversely saline Read More…
Background: While pectoral implants are the male equivalent of female breast implants there are some obvious and not so obvious differences between them. The obvious differences are that in women the goals is to create a round mound that is only partially under the muscle. (if a submuscular approach is being used) It is not Read More…
Background: All three facial thirds can be aesthetically augmented with implants. But there are major differences between the upper third of the face than the lower two-thirds. By history, availability of off-the-shelf implants and clinical experience augmentation of the lower 2/3s of the face is well known with chin, cheek, jaw angle, paranasal, premaxillary, and Read More…
There are numerous aesthetic implants for the midface that are well known including cheek, tear trough and paranasal implants. While effective in the properly selected patient these standard facial implants provide spot augmentations meaning that only a portion of the facial bone area is being enlarged/expanded. For larger areas of midface augmentation these standard implants Read More…
Background: The five surfaces of the skull are prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities. In theory all five surfaces could be equally affected by these shape deformations but that is not so. Three of the five skull surfaces are completely bony but the sides are covered with muscle. Since almost all skull Read More…
Background: The back of the head is typically perceived as being made up of the occipital skull bone. But this is not completely accurate. This large unpaired bone is the most posterior part of the skull and does makes up a significant part of its posterior wall. But the upper part of the back of Read More…
Background: The skull is simplistically a collection of five almost flat to very convex surfaces. All of these skull surfaces usually have smooth outer contours but are prone to a wide variety of possible irregularities from either congenital, traumatic or pathologic origins. A significant number of such surface contour irregularities are related to the suture Read More…
Jaw angle implants have become increasingly popular, particularly amongst men, for enhancement of the back part of the lower jaw. While often in combination with chin implants or a sliding geniplasty for a more complete jaw augmentation effect, they can also be done by themselves if adequate chin projection already exists. Jaw angle implants are 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...