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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...
Annual statistics for plastic surgery in the U.S as gathered by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons showed that almost 16 million cosmetic procedures (nearly 14 million were non-surgical) were performed in 2014. This represents an increase of about 3% from 2013. Like many years before, breast augmentation was the top cosmetic surgery while Read More…
The selection of implant size is one of the most important and debated choices in breast augmentation surgery. Women understandably spend considerable time considering this choice and on today’s internet a lot of breast implant results are available for viewing. While many results give the woman’s height and weight and breast implant size used, that Read More…
Fat grafting and its liposuction harvest has become mainstream in 2015 for both aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery needs. While ongoing clinical studies and experience will continue to evaluate its effectiveness, there is no debating that its use has become adopted by most plastic surgeons. Several of the reasons for its popularity is that most Read More…
Background: A prominent and more defined jawline is a facial feature that has always been in vogue for men and more recently that of women as well. While there are differences between jawline augmentation methods and objectives for man and women, a smooth jawline from front to back is characteristic of both of them. With Read More…
Background: Breast implants can change many feature’s of one’s breasts including obvious size and creating a rounder and fuller shape. But there are other characteristics of the breasts in which they can not and may even make some features worse. If the nipples, for example, are horizontally at two different levels initially, augmentation will usually Read More…
Ireland, technically the Republic of Ireland, is an enchanting island that is in the Atlantic ocean northwest of Great Britain. It covers over 32,000 square miles (or almost 85,000 square kilometers) and is one of the biggest islands in all of Europe. It’s history and politics divide the island into ‘mainland’ Ireland which is Read More…
Background: Excessive flatness of the back of the head can affect women and men equally. While shorter hairstyles reveal the shape of the back of the head most clearly, women with longer hair can be similarly affected and use various hairstyling methods to camouflage it. There are various materials by which the back of the Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead is well known to be gender-specific. Women usually prefer smooth convex foreheads with no obvious brow bone prominences. Conversely, men usually desire evidence of a brow bone with a break into the mid-forehead with a more retroclined shape into the upper forehead. While I have seen males and females Read More…
Early treatment of scars by some method is certainly preferred by patients whether the scars are from traumatic injury or elective aesthetic surgery. A variety of such scar strategies exist from topical gels and tapes to pulsed dye and ablative laser treatments. All of these methods have shown long-term scar appearance benefit with topical treatments Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation can be done by using either an implant or actually moving the chin bone. A chin implant is by far the most common genioplasty method because it is simpler, less invasive and easily reversible. While the sliding genioplasty method can be done alone, it is almost always used when other facial 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...