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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...
The neck is one of the primary reasons that patients present for some form of faciial rejuvenation. It is not rare that such aging patients only wants a ‘necklift’ and not a fuller ‘facelift’, even though they rarely understand the difference between these two procedures or facial rejuvenation concepts. There are a wide variety of Read More…
The lips are one of the most unique areas of the face to be treated by injectable fillers. The lips are extremely soft and supple, have a high number of nerve endings and are the most frequently touched part of the entire face. They also have a somewhat complex shape to them and undergo a Read More…
The middle third of the nose is usually viewed as a mere bridge between the top of the nose and the tip. But it actually has a very significant functional purpose as what lies beneath it and is created by it is the internal nasal valves. Formed by the junction of the septum and the Read More…
Background: Two of the most popular body contouring procedures today is one from the past and a relatively new one. Tummy tuck surgery has been around for over five decades and is highly successful at reshaping the abdominal wall often in a dramatic fashion. Conversely, buttock augmentation by fat injections (aka Brazilian Butt Lift) has Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation is an operation whose effect is completely derived from the use of an implant. The push of the implant on the overlying breast tissue creates the size and to some degree the shape of the breast that results. While a women’s natural breast tissues do play a role in how the augmented Read More…
Plastic surgery today is done literally from head to toe and from the ages of soon after birth to octogenarians. Like never before older patients are undergoing non-surgical and surgical procedures for face and even body enhancements. When a plastic surgeon or a patient is considering surgery in these ‘advanced’ years it would seem Read More…
While a short chin is both common and easily treated by an implant or bony in most cases, the long or big chin is a much more challenging aesthetic issue. The tissue excess over the front end of the lower jaw makes its reduction fraught with problems of redundancy and potential tissue sag. Where does Read More…
Background: One of the majn features of the lower leg is that of the calfs. The size of the calfs is due to its muscles which contribute to the shape of the leg below the knee. If they are well developed, the leg is seen as very muscular and athletic. If they are underdeveloped and Read More…
The most common cosmetic treatment of the glabellar region is that of Botox injections. By decreasing the effects of the procerus and corrugator muscles, the creation of vertical glabellar wrinkles or furrows is diminished. But Botox only treats dynamic dynamic wrinkling and will not change static wrinkles which represent the long term effects of unrestrained Read More…
There are numerous strategies to improving the shape of the buttocks of which the most popular is the Brazilian Butt Lift. (BBL) While this buttock augmentation method is called a lift, it really does not lift the buttocks at all. It fills out the buttocks to make it bigger or more round but is not 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...