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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...
Many older male patients, as often defined as 65 years of age, or older, are most bothered by the development of central turkey neck or wattle.While a lower facelift is the definitive procedure for most forms of neck tissue sagging the older male may not prefer or be able to medically undergo the extent of Read More…
The traditional and majority of waist reshaping procedures are soft tissue-based removing either fat and skin. While this is all that most patients need some may benefit from deeper structural changes to the bone as well. Such lower ribcage modifications have long been rumored to exist but there was little evidence of them being Read More…
In aesthetic testicular enhancement surgery a wide variety of scrotal interventions and abnormalities can be encountered. The most common are atrophic testicular changes with below normal sizes…which is of course why they are presenting for the surgery. But numerous other entities may be found from penile pump extensions to various injectable. While every non-autologous entity Read More…
Background: Shoulder reduction surgery is both a visual and measured type of change. What ultimately counts is how the appearance of the shoulder changes (looks less wide or square) as well as how it improve clothing options. But because a certain amount of bone is removed the changes came also be quantified by external measurements Read More…
The clavicle reduction osteotomies used in aesthetic shoulder narrowing surgery is conceptually straightforward. Remove a specific length of bone, pull the remaining two ends of the bone back together and put a plate and screws to hold it together so it heals. This would be fairly easy if one is working on a skeletal model Read More…
The intricacies of the shape of the lower jaw can not be appreciated looking at plain x-rays like a panorex where it has been most commonly seen in its entirety. It is often perceived as largely being a smooth surface around its perimeter which it certainly is based on plain x-rays. And very many types Read More…
Background: The clavicle is the only horizontally oriented bone in the body whose primary function is to keep the shoulder at a distance from the sternum and ribcage. But do doing the arm can have an adequate range of motion. It is a load-bearing bone in which its size (defined as its diameter) will be Read More…
Background: In female chin augmentation, whether it is done by implant or a bony advancement, consideration must be given to avoiding an aesthetic over correction. The traditional cephalometric measurements that indicate the ideal position of the chin does not really apply to most women. What matters aesthetically is not what the bone or soft tissue Read More…
Background: The custom infraorbital-malar implant is the most commonly used custom facial implant design in the midface. Because of its unique infraorbital and malar composite design a horizontal augmentation is achieved from the inside of the eye out well onto the zygomatic arch. This is effective because many patients with infraorbital deficiencies also have cheek Read More…
Testicular enhancement, or the enlargement of one’s testicles, can be done by one of two implant methods. The most logical one is the encasement of the testicles with a wraparound implant. One’s natural testicle fits inside the wraparound implant who’s external diameter is the size one desires. While conceptually appealing it has no complications 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...