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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: The bulge in the center of just about any neck is the result of the laryngeal prominences. These are two large plates of paired cartilages who have a primary function to provide protection of the very important vocal cords from injury The size or prominence of these cartilages is highly influenced by hormones which Read More…
Background: Aging of the face affects all structures but none are more noticeable, both early and late in the process, than that of what occurs around the eyes. One of those changes is a sag or lowering of the eyebrows. Due to frequent motion of the muscles which often pulls them down and the long-term Read More…
Despite the common performance of liposuction as part of many body contouring procedures, the long-term consequences of its effects on the body are not well understood. Various studies have indicated that liposuction can cause breast and upper body enlargement due to fat reaccumulation. Such findings fall in line with what is known as the Read More…
Despite that lip augmentation is sought by many women (and a few men), the perfect procedure to accomplish it remains elusive. A wide variety of treatment options exist to achieve bigger lips from injectable fillers and fat to surgical manipulations of the vermilion and skin excisions. Injectable fillers are by far the most common lip Read More…
Background: The chin has a major impact on the appearance of the lower face. While most think of it as only from a horizontal projection perspective, its frontal shape has a major influence on the gender identification to whom it is attached. Men often have strong more square chin shapes in the front view while Read More…
One of the most facial aging surgeries is that of blepharoplasty or the removal of excessive eyelid skin. It is most common because everyone develops redundant skin of the eyelids with enough age and everyone has four eyelids. Even for those patients not driven by a desire for an aesthetic improvement, an upper blepharoplasty is Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a powerful changer of chin shape that dates back to its first description in the early 1940s. It is not used nearly as often as a chin implant due to being a more invasive procedure that requires greater technical expertise and experience to perform. But it historically offers the advantages Read More…
Background: Injectable fillers along with Botox has revolutionized facial rejuvenation. While often confused from the public’s perspective, injectable fillers are used for soft tissue enhancement such as softening nasolabial folds and enlarging lips. But as the number and types of injectable fillers has grown over the past decade, their uses has been expanded to include Read More…
One of the hardest nasal problems to correct in rhinoplasty is the deviated or twisted nose. A major contributor to an asymmetric external nose is the septum, the ‘tentpole’ of support for the external cartilage and bone that gives the nose its outward shape. Straightening the septum as a nose realignment technique is well known Read More…
Background: All areas of the face eventually show the signs of aging. But the mouth area in women is affected more by aging than that seen in men and is affected by sagging, thinning and wrinkling. The once fuller lips of youth give way to thinner lips with less vermilion show and vertical lip lines. 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...