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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: There are a variety of established aesthetic head shape deformities that have been assigned well known names. One of these is that of scaphocephaly or a boat-shaped head which is a literal translation of the name. Because a boat is long and narrow this is exactly how such a head shape appears. In the Read More…
Background: There are numerous methods of facial assessment when determining the most aesthetically pleasing facial proportions. One of the most commonly used methods is that of the facial thirds. This is a vertical assessment of the length of the face broken down into 3 sections, frontal hairline to flabella (upper), glabella to central nasal base Read More…
Background: Facial reshaping surgery most commonly involves modifications of the bones albeit augmentative or reductive. Masculinizing the face is typically augmentative in nature while facial feminization focuses mainly on reduction procedures. It is for this reason that facial masculinization almost always involves implants with a few exceptions such as the sliding genioplasty for chin augmentation Read More…
Background: The face is a set of anatomic features that structurally create a Y configuration in the middle of the face.The paired eyes/eyebrows, the vertical shaped nose that lines between them and the horizontally oriented lips or mouth that runs below the nose. Each of these 7 structures forms a facial pattern which, while quite Read More…
Background: Clavicle reduction osteotomies have proven to be a safe and effective technique for aesthetic shoulder narrowing. A section of the clavicle bone is removed on the inner half of the clavicle, due to an aesthetically favorable incision location in the supraclavicular fossa, and the distal clavicle segment is brought inward to reunite with the residual Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a conceptually straightforward procedure. Cut the bone, move it forward and fix it into the desired new position.. It sounds simple enough but there are a lot of variables in its execution that can lead to an unsatisfactory outcome. The first important step is to determine the patient’s exact aesthetic Read More…
Background: In the transfemale patient, contrary to popular perception, breast implants are not always done or on a high priority for the patient. Many such patients who are on hormonal therapy give that ample time to try to achieve their desired breast size increase. For many this is adequate well for others they never came Read More…
Hip implants remain an evolving aesthetic procedure as evidenced by the lack of any standard implant to do so. Part of this is due to the historic lack of demand for the procedure as well as cultural norms in the Western world where larger hips was not seen as desirable. But that has all changed Read More…
The custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the shape of the lower third of the face. Besides augmenting the chin and jaw angle areas its connected design expands the entire inferolateral border of the jawline in a wraparound fashion. That creates a surprising but beneficial aesthetic effect of creating a more clear Read More…
Background: Aesthetic contouring of the cheeks could involve augmentation or reduction. In either case potential treatment areas include the bone or the soft tissue. Augmentation is the most conceptually understood because that involves either an implant to augment the bone or fat injections to add volume to the soft tissues. Conversely cheek reduction means reducing 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...