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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: One of the main characteristics of the male forehead are the brow bones. They usually are more pronounced than the projection of the forehead creating a brow bone break between the two structures. Brow bones occur in men due to the larger growth of the underlying frontal air sinuses, a result of a Read More…
Background: The male chest is largely defined by the size and shape of the pectoralis muscle as well as the nipple-areolar complex. While chest asymmetry to some degree is common in many men, significant asymmetry is most commonluy caused by abnormal development. A variety of congenital male chest conditions exist including pectus excavatum and pectus Read More…
Background: Forehead augmentation or reconstruction is most commonly done using either intraoperatively formed bone cements or a variety of custom designed implant materials. Such forehead implants work best when the overlying scalp tissues are thick and well vascularized. Forehead implant materials should be used with impeding peril when the soft tissue cover is compromised due Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most popular non-surgical cosmetic facial procedures and is one of the most common sites for the placement of injectable fillers. But injectable fillers only add volume and in the vermilion deficient lip may create a very pouty lip or ‘fish’ lips. Without adequate vermilion height the filler merely Read More…
Background:The eyebrows provide an important framing structure for the eye area. Residing over the brow bones (supraorbital rims) their hairy composition provide an instantly recognizeable facial feature. While eyebrows have very variable shapes and hair features, and they are subject to considerable grooming and modifications based on contemporary style, the one consistent and important feature Read More…
Background: Gynecomastia is a well known male chest abnormality that has a wide range of expression from puffy nipples to that of an actual breast mound. It is treated by two basic approaches, liposuction and open excision. Which treatment method is sued depends on the size and tissue quality of the gynecomastia problem. Most commonly Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done for a wide variety of deficient skull shape concerns. Changes can be made in skull height, skull width and frontal and posterior skull projection. In rare cases and with the use of a first stage scalp tissue expander, the entire skull can be augmented through a circumferential Read More…
While facelift surgery is often viewed as a total facial rejuvenation procedure, in the truest sense of the term it is really a lower facial surgical procedure. (neck-jowl lift) And while it has numerous variations and surgeon advocates for them, the fundamental techniques for doing it are fairly well accepted. The same can be said Read More…
Background: The nasal hump is probably the most common request for change in a rhinoplasty. By history rhinoplasty has its origins largely for reduction of large nasal humps. While once done in isolation, hump reduction in rhinoplasty today is usually just one part of a series of technical maneuvers that changes the overall nasal shape Read More…
Background: Breast implants come in variety of options from different filler materials (saline vs silicone), sizes and varying projections. (height to width ratios) One additional implant option is that of shape. (round vs teardrop/anatomic) For the typical patient this many breast implant options can be bewildering so it is helpful if the patient goes through 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...