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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...
Chin augmentation using an implant is the common form of aesthetic facial augmentation. Putting an implant on the front edge of the chin bone has been done for over fifty years using a variety of materials. Silicone chin implants dominate the materials used for chin augmentation and are available in a variety of styles. The Read More…
Background: Large amounts of weight loss cause an expected amount of abdominal skin looseness and overhang. The deflation of the abdominal and waistline fat causes a resultant skin excess that hands down. This most commonly results in a single roll of tissue that hangs over the waistline known as an abdominal pannus. In patients with Read More…
Background: The equivalent to female breast augmentation in men are pectoral implants. Besides the obvious differences in aesthetic objectives, pectoral implants differ in that they are solid devices that are placed completely in a submuscular position within the confines of the borders of the pectoralis major muscle. This is almost always done through a transaxillary Read More…
Altering the shape of a woman’s body has been a part of plastic surgery for over fifty years. This has traditionally meant such procedures as breast augmentation, liposuction and tummy tucks. In the most contemporary forms of female body contouring the role of the buttocks and hips, once deemed undesirable, have become popular. This has Read More…
Liposuction is the most commonly performed cosmetic body contouring procedure, both by number of patients and body surface area. It has undergone a lot of technical improvements over the past third-five years from patient indications to the technical equipment needed to perform it. While understandably viewed as an aesthetic procedure, its traumatic impact on the Read More…
The shape of the nose is as varied amongst people as the weather is on any one day around the world. While not quite as distinct as a fingerprint, one’s nose shape is fairly unique in each individual. But despite this tremendous diversity in appearance, there are certain nasal shapes that many patients strive to Read More…
The superficial temporal artery (STA) is a branch of the facial artery that crosses in front of the ear and heads northward into the scalp. At a fairly predictable point above the ear it turns into a Y configuration with an anterior branches coursing across the forehead at it turns up into the scalp. It Read More…
Unlike chin augmentation, chin reduction surgery is performed far less commonly. As a result, it is not a well understood procedure in terms of proper diagnosis and technique. While chin reduction is often perceived as an intraoral bony burring procedure, this is a very limited procedure that is rarely effective and often leads to postoperative Read More…
Custom skull implants have become a standard technique in my plastic surgery practice for making many aesthetic skull shape changes. Prior to their use, while skull reshaping surgery was possible, it involved the use of much longer scalp incisions and the use of intraoperatively fashioned biomaterials that had a much higher rate of contour issues Read More…
Background: Aesthetic deficiencies of the lower eye/eyelid have a variety of presentations. Dark circles, teat tear troughing, negative vectors and a flat midface describe some of the common terms used to describe the external appearance of a skeletal deficiency of the infraorbital rim or lower eye bone. As a companion to the supraorbital rim 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...