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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...
Open rhinoplasty continues to be the most effective approach in a large number of nose reshaping patients. There is no question that the visualization provided to many of the critical structural elements that need to be modified creates the best opportunity to achieve the desired changes in a predictable manner. The tradeoffs to do so, Read More…
Background: Besides asymmetry the most adverse breast shape encountered in the preoperative breast augmentation patient is sagging. More medically known as ptosis this poses numerous issues including whether augmentation will improve or worsen teh sagging as well as overcoming the patient’s expectations, often erroneous, that implants will lift sagging breasts Breast sagging comes in a Read More…
The concept of an injectable cranioplasty to augment various areas of the skull has tremendous appeal. Avoiding scalp incisions has an obvious benefit as well as limiting the magnitude of the surgery. Having worked years ago at trying to develop this surgical technique, it was eventually abandoned due to not being able to solve the Read More…
Background: In an era where it is common to see an adult male with a shaved head or a very closely cropped haircut, the shape of the head takes on great aesthetic significance. Not only are large head shape issues glaringly apparent but small ones that would normally never be seen with a head of Read More…
Background: The size of one’s head or shape of the skull is usually congenitally controlled. While microcephaly is a pathologic skull development condition that restricts brain development, some patients have small narrow heads but not true microcephaly. Sometimes called ‘peanut heads’ and often having issues with wearing hats or helmets their head shape might be Read More…
The most simplest definition of vertical orbital dystopia is that the eyes do not lie on the same horizontal plane. While it could be that the abnormal eye sits too high, it is far more common that the vertical direction of deformity is that it sits lower than the opposite normal eye. This can occur Read More…
The lacrimal glands are paired small sacs of exocrine glands that are normally located just under the edge of the lateral orbital rim in, appropriately called, the lacrimal fossa. They are responsible for secreting the aqueous layer of the tear film. While small, about 1 x 1 cm in size, it has two distinct lobes Read More…
A custom jawline implant is the most effective method to reshape the lower third of the face. By expanding the inferolateral border of the mandible from angle to angle a linear jawline can be created with varying projections of its three corners…if one has the right facial structure to do so. (not overly thick soft Read More…
Background: Congenital ear reconstruction, like is needed in microtia, is challenging due to the tissue deficiencies which is primarily the cartilage framework. This can be overcome in many cases by the natural stretch of the overlying and surrounding tissues, which while deficient, are pliable and elastic. In more severe cases of microtia a first stage Read More…
In rhinoplasty the only structure in the nose that is unaffected by osteocartilaginous maneuvers is the nostril base. When they remain wide, narrowing procedures can be done and are the last step in any rhinoplasty surgery. Alar base reduction is generally considered when the interalar distance exceeds the intercanthal distance. While often creating a minor 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...