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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...
Every year at this time, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons releases the annual procedural statistics from the previous year. This is always a good snap shot of the state of the specialty. From a cosmetic standpoint, there were over 15 million procedures performed in 2013. This includes both invasive surgery, minimally invasive and Read More…
Background: Body builders and figure enthusiasts create chest and arm muscular volume and definition by cutting fat and inducing muscular hypertrophy. But what differentiates male and female bodybuilders from a chest standpoint is that females should have a breast mound while men are flat. But due to the regimented stripping of fat as part of Read More…
Background: Gynecomastia, the development of breasts in men, is often thought of as a young man’s problem. While hormonal changes certainly set the stage for the emergence of breasts in some teenagers and young men, similar problems of a slightly different nature occur at the opposite end of the age spectrum. When older men develop Read More…
While implants are used all over the body from the breasts to the calfs very successfully, their use for buttock augmentation is associated with a more checkered experience. Not that implants anywhere can’t be associated with complications, but buttock implants carry a disproportionate amount of criticism. This is partially due to the availability of fat Read More…
The reduction of a prominent Adam’s Apple through a procedure known as a tracheal or laryngeal shave has been in the news lately. Former Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner has recently made headlines for purportedly undergoing the procedure and the tabloids have suggested that he may be in a transitional state to becoming a women. Read More…
Nasal surgery has traditionally been a procedure that has been reserved for later teenagers and adults when the development of the nose is complete. Since the septum of the nose is the main driving force for the growth of the nose, any manipulations were felt to result in subsequent deviations or arrest of nasal Read More…
Background: Chin deficiences are common and are usually satisfactorily treated by an implant augmentation method. While implants are good for mild to moderate short chin problems, they often are not adequate for a chin that has a more significant horizontal deficiency that is accompanied by other dimensional abnormalities. Moving the symphysis of the mandible, known Read More…
Background: The head has a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Like the face, there are certain head shapes that are more pleasing than others. While one knows intuitively whether they like their head shape or not, there are certain measurements of height and width of the head that can help classify its beauty or Read More…
Fat grafting has become a very popular method of soft tissue augmentation. While it is not always completely effective due to post-transplant absorption, it is always very safe given the natural composition of the graft. When effective the initial augmentation result can be quite good but its long-term effects are not really known given its Read More…
Breast augmentation requires the insertion of an implant through an almost always smaller incision than the size of the implant. This is not an issue with saline breast implants since they are inserted in a rolled fashion and inflated once in place. But silicone breast implants must be placed fully filled and their placement 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...