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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 anterior branch of the superficial temporal artery is the only portion of the external carotid system that can become externally visible. As it leaves the temporal hairline and crosses into the side of the forehead its pathway is superficial above the deep temporal fascia. If the artery becomes enlarged, due to a medical Read More…
Background: Reductive shoulder reshaping, often called shoulder narrowing surgery, works by shortening the length of the clavicles. Through a small incision located in the supraclavicular fossa a segment of the clavicle is removed and the ends reapproximated. This pulls in the distal clavicle and shoulder because the medial end of the clavicle, its sternoclavicular joint Read More…
Background: Jaw angle implants pose very difficult challenges than chin implants in both size and style selection as well as surgical placement. The most obvious difference is that a chin implant is a single procedure while jaw angle implants are two procedures due to their bilateral locations. Positioning a single implant over a solitary projecting Read More…
Background: Frontal bossing is usually an isolated aesthetic skull deformity. Similarly excessive head width/convexity is often also a localized head shape issue. But there are some patients where the two are related and are part of an overall larger and wider head. The width created by the frontal bossing extends over onto the side of Read More…
As an aesthetic procedure mouth widening borrows some basic principles from reconstructive plastic surgery. Opening or expanding any aperture requires that its circumferential perimeter length be increased. In mouth widening there are two specific aperture areas to be increased that are directly across from each other. (sides of the mouth) This poses some stability concerns Read More…
Background: Somewhat similar to breast implants testicle implants are available in either saline or silicone compositions. What differentiates silicone breast implants from silicone testicle implants is that in the breast the silicone implant is a gel-filled bag vs in the scrotum the implant is solid silicone. While solid silicone will always feels a bit firmer Read More…
Background: Flat areas on the skull are one of the primary indications for the use of custom skull implants. While flat skull areas can occur anywhere on the skull they have a propensity to be more on the back of the head than anywhere else. This is undoubtably due to that the back of Read More…
Background: Brow bone reduction surgery today is most commonly associated with transgender facial feminization surgery with the goal being to flatten the brows as much as possible.While not as commonly known brow bone reduction in men has been done for a long time and actually precedes its application in transfemale surgery. What differentiates male vs Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies a full third of the upper face and as such has a major role to play in facial aesthetics. Despite its broad surface area coverage it does not have many distinct features that creates its look. Other than the leading edge of the frontal hairline superiorly and the eyebrows inferiorly it Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the more popular uses of injectable synthetic fillers and has been so for more than two decades. They offer an immediate and non-surgical method of lip augmentation that works fairly well when adequate vermilion height exists. But it does require periodic injections to maintain the effect and injections into 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...