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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 external ear has a remarkable topographic complexity to it for being such a small craniofacial structure. Its many hills and valleys (convexities and concavities) give rise to over fifteen different subunit names. The earlobe is the only flat surface structure on the whole ear that has has no cartilage support. Despite its anatomic Read More…
The most common aesthetic ear surgery is that of the setback otoplasty. Changing the auriculocephalic angle by bringing the outer half of the ear closer to the side of the head makes the ears less prominent in the frontal view. It is a procedure that has a high satisfaction rate with few complications. Its most Read More…
The outer half or tail of the brow bone can be reduced through an upper eyelid incision. This is useful in numerous clinical conditions where only the outer half of the brow bone needs to be changed such as in facial asymmetry (vertical brow bone elevation ) and in some types of facial feminization surgery. Read More…
Facial lipoatrophy is a well known aesthetic complication from the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus conditions with retroviral medications. While the drugs used to to treat this medical condition have improved and nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors are being used less frequently, this every visible facial deformity still occurs in some patients even if the medications are Read More…
Background: The basic concept of a lower facelift is one of tissue repositoning. Loose face and neck tissues are freed up and then repositioned up over the ears. The ear becomes partially buried under this flap of skin of which the redundancy is trimmed and the full ear is re-exposed. This places a closure line Read More…
The bridge or dorsum of the nose is one of the most frequently manipulated areas in rhinoplasty. Removing a nasal hump is the primary reason and most patient’s interpret this as ‘shaving down the bone’. But in reality the area of a hump, also known as the keystone, has a more complex anatomy. It is Read More…
Extreme amounts of weight loss from bariaric surgery are well known to cause a lot of body changes with the development of sagging excess skin. Of all the possible bariatric plastic surgery options amongst women the brachioplasty or arm lift procedure is usually in the top three body changes desired. (I have never had a Read More…
Background: While contouring by fat reduction is a very common aesthetic approach for the body, it is must less frequently done in the face. Between the much proportionally smaller amount of fat and the restricted access to it by the facial nerves, the amount of facial contouring by fat reduction limits how much facial reductive Read More…
Background: There are many upper body muscles that men strive to build by exercise. These include the arm (bicep and tricep) and chest (pectoral) muscles for which aesthetic implant augmentations can be done to assist or replace the need for strenuous exercise. But one upper body muscle that is often developed by weight training is Read More…
Background: The best method to aesthetically augment the entire forehead is with a custom implant approach. Being able to select the exact dimensions and shape of the implant beforehand and design it on the patient’s 3D CT scan offers a huge aesthetic advantage over creating the augmentation by hand intraoperatively with bone cements. While there 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...