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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...
A strong and/or well defined jawline is a valuable aesthetic feature of the lower face in both men and women. While isolated and combined individual chin and jaw angle implants can be effective at achieving it, a one-piece wrap around jawline implant is the most effective way to achieve a completely smooth jawline augmentation. Read More…
Background: Rejuvenation of a long upper lip can only be reliably done by removing skin somewhere between the nose and the upper lip. The most common procedure to do so is known as the subnasal lip lift. It is more popular and commonly done than its cousin the upper lip advancement due to the less Read More…
Background: The well known tummy tuck or abdominoplasty procedure is most commonly used in women who have had abdominal shape changes due to pregnancy or some moderate weight loss. But since the era of bariatric surgery, large amounts of weight loss have created skin excesses who require modified forms of tummy tuck surgery. Since the Read More…
Breast implants create their effect by causing an instantaneous expansion of the overlying breast mound. This relatively simple and obvious concept causes a variety of postoperative effects on the shape of the breast that are often incompletely understood by patients…although understandably so. Some of their well known effects is that implants just make the breasts Read More…
Cheek augmentation is a popular facial enhancement procedure that can be done by a variety of methods. The most approach today is that of an injectable technique using either synthetic fillers or the patient’s own fat. The injectable cheek augmentation material is often highly influenced by whether any other surgery is being done, fillers in Read More…
Double eyelid surgery is one of the most common facial surgeries in Asian patients. Changing a monolid to one that has two distinct eye areas by making a distinct crease creates a more appealing eyelid shape. It is not done with the attempt to make a Western eye appearance but to give the Eastern eyelid Read More…
Background: The prominence of the lower face, known as the jawline, has great significance for men. The size of the jawline is defined by its three points of the chin and the two jaw angles. Due to the way the jaw develops and its unique shape, a small or weak chin is also associated with Read More…
Cosmetic surgery, like all surgeries, has the risk of after surgery complications. But cosmetic surgery us unique is that it has two distinct types of complications…medical and cosmetic. Medical complications are events like infection or DVT. Cosmetic complications are an undesired or unexpected appearance like an implant being too big or an out contour Read More…
Pectoral implants are the male equivalent of breast implants for women. The fundamental difference is that pectoral implants are a muscle enhancing procedure while breast implants are a non-muscular soft tissue (breast mound) enhancing procedure. These anatomic differences make for subtle but significant differences in the surgical technique in how the implants are placed. Pectoral Read More…
Background: Aesthetic lip changes are largely about augmentation and are accomplished by using injectable fillers. Hundreds of thousands of such lip injections are done each year around the world. The opposite of lip augmentation, lip reduction is done in far fewer numbers. While the exact numbers of lip reduction are not known, it is probably 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...