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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: Cheek implants, while having been used clinically for a long time, pose challenges in both determining their aesthetic effects as well as their surgical placement. While seemingly simple in both regards cheek augmentation lessons are often learned from the initial placement of standard implants. In such situations the standard cheek implant serves as a Read More…
Background: Chin reduction understandably is the antithesis to chin augmentation. But suffice it to say that a chin reduction is technically harder than a chin augmentation when considering the bone and soft tissue elements involved and isn fraught with its own unique set of challenges. The first one of these is the soft tissue chin Read More…
Background: There are a variety of aesthetic upper forehead prominences that can benefit from reductive reshaping. While the frontal bone of the skull is not overly thick a certain amount of bone can be removed until the diploid space is encountered. Such prominences as osteomas, forehead horns, frontal bossing and prominent temporal lines represent the Read More…
Background: Clavicle fractures are a very common type of orthopedic bone injury with a reported occurrence of up to 4% of all fractures. Such fractures may be treated surgically with the placement of plates, screws and pins as well as non-surgically with post-injury shoulder immobilization slings/garments. With such a common type of bone injury it Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is an historic autologous chin augmentation procedure that has a long history. And while it is true that the down fractured bone is moved outward it really isn’t a sliding procedure anymore and hasn’t been for over almost 40 years. Originally the cut bone segment was slid forward along the osteotomy Read More…
Background: The lower extent of the ideal buttock shape should have a well defined line or demarcation between it and the upper thighs. (infragluteal fold) This is very similar to the inframammary fold of the breasts although not quite as pronounced due to the smaller projection of the buttock mound. There are a variety of Read More…
Background: Rib removal, while not a commonly performed or known procedure, can provide an effective waist narrowing effect in the properly selected patient. It is commonly performed through an oblique back incision of 4 to 5cms length centered over the 11th rib. Through this incision the outer portion of ribs 11 and 12 can be Read More…
Background: Custom implants provide the most effective and significant method for aesthetic skull augmentation. By expanding the outer surface of the skull through placement of an onlay implant the overlying scalp is stretched and the head shape changed. While any shape and size of skull implant can be designed that doesn’t mean there is enough Read More…
Background: The upper third of the face is seemingly a rather featureless region that would not appear to be complex for augmentation. But the reality is that it is one of the hardest facial areas aesthetically to do so given its large surface area and important anatomic areas. There are numerous important upper facial landmarks Read More…
Background: In the treatment of shoulder dysphoria due to excessive size/width the goal is to make the shoulders smaller. This is commonly perceived as making the shoulders more narrow. And while that effect from shortening the length of the clavicle does occur an equal contribution comes from a change in the shape of the shoulders. 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...