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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...
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…
Septal perforations occur for a variety of reasons, most commonly from septorhinoplasty surgery, trauma and chronic cocaine use. They are difficult reconstructive challenges because of limited surgical access, the difficulty of mobilizing tissues in a tight space and the need for at least a two layer closure of them. If this were a full-thickness Read More…
Linear scleroderma is a well recognized craniofacial deformity that involves the atrophy of tissues along the distribution of the trigeminal nerve in many cases. This unusual disease process is not understood but treatment focuses on restoration of lost tissue volume. Today injectable fat grafting is a mainstay of its treatment. While the survival of injected Read More…
Significant nasal augmentation is needed in certain ethic aesthetic rhinoplasties as well as in reconstruction of saddle nose deformities that have occurred for a variety of reasons. To be effective such augmentations requires the material needed to do it. In most cases the augmentation material of choice comes down to either a rib graft or 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...