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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...
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…
Buttock augmentation continues to grow in popularity and is done most frequently by fat injections. (Brazilian butt lift) But not everyone has enough fat to harvest for a successful autologous buttock augmentation and not every fat-injected buttock ends up with the patient’s desired volume. As a result, the use of buttock implants has also grown Read More…
The use of injectable fillers has a wide variety of aesthetic uses throughout the face. They provide a non-surgical approach to facial augmentation and in some cases are a good substitute for surgery, albeit often on a temporary basis. The appeal to the patients is that they obviously avoid surgery and even if it is Read More…
Tip projection is an important part of the nasal shape that can be changed in tip rhinoplasty surgery. Tip projection is different than tip rotation as the former pulls the tip of the nose away from the face while the latter changes the axis of the tip point around the sagittal plane of the face. Read More…
Background: The classic debate, and sometimes an actual controversy, is whether chin augmentation is best done with an implant or by moving the chin bone. (sliding genioplasty) While patients and surgeons often try and compare them by their level of invasiveness, that is really an irrelevant and short-sighted thought process to that decision. That discussion Read More…
Augmentation of the bones of the face can be done for a wide variety of aesthetic purposes. This serves as the foundation for the most common sites for implant placement of the chin, cheeks, jaw angles, nose and infraorbital rims. But just because a performed implant does not exist for other facial sites does not Read More…
A custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the shape of the lower face. Because it creates a volumetric expansion of the entire bony surface of the lower jaw that is responsible for its external appearance, it can create jawline changes that are not capable from any other operation. Even a sagittal split Read More…
Rhinoplasty remains a consistently popular aesthetic facial procedure because it fundamentally works and is capable of making significant facial appearance improvements. While it is not a perfect operation and it has its own risk of the need for revision procedures, it is associated with high patient satisfaction scores. The interesting question is what changes of 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...