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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...
Correction of prominent ears by a setback otoplasty, whether in children or adults, is a highly rewarding procedure for most patients. Numerous techniques have been described in how to reliably and permanently setback the cartilage of the protruding ear. None of these technique have proven to be absolutely superior over the others, indicating that any Read More…
Aesthetic augmentations of the head can be most effectively done using a custom skull implant approach. Using the patient’s 3D CT scan implants can be designed to contour large surface areas of the external skull bone surface. While these skull implant designs can be made of any of the traditional materials, solid silicone is the Read More…
Background: The chin and neck are related more than just by anatomic proximity. The prominence or angularity of one affects the appearance of the other one. Aesthetically it is difficult to separate one from the other. A short chin makes the neck appears less defined. Conversely a neck that is more obtuse makes the chin/jawline Read More…
Shoulder feminization is a surgical procedure where the bideltoid width of the upper body is narrowed. This is achieved by reducing the horizontal length of the clavicles by removing an intervening bone segment. This removed bone usually measures 2.5 to 3 cms in length which translates fairly directly into the same amount of shoulder narrowing. Read More…
While the chin has been a focus of lower facial reshaping for over half a century, it really only represents 1/3 of the total jaw surface area. While its surface area involvement is relatively small it has greater aesthetic significance to the face than the amount of bone area that it occupies due to its Read More…
Chin implants are the most common form of chin augmentation surgery and are effective for mild to moderate horizontal deficiencies. But in more significant horizontal chin deficiencies the selected size may still be inadequate. Or the patient may decide later once all the swelling has gone down that they really want a larger implant size. Read More…
The most commonly performed osteotomy of the lower jaw for occlusal realignment is the sagittal split ramus osteotomy. (SSRO) This cleverly designed osteotomy splits the mandible ramus in a sagittal direction which allows the distal segment containing the teeth to move forward or back. Once the lower teeth are aligned with the upper teeth, the Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a common and most recognized developmental skull shape deformity. It is typically seen as a flattening on one side of the back of the head that wraps around the side onto the posterior temporal region. This is why the ear on the affected side is always displaced a bit more forward. In Read More…
Background: While the normal size range of the male testicle is known, there is no aesthetic relationship measurement between the size of the penis and that of the scrotum that hangs beneath it. Certainly the two create an overall aesthetic unit (penile-scrotal complex) but the exact proportionate relationship between the two has never been studied. Read More…
Background: The common nature of aesthetic chin augmentation, which often employs pure horizontal augmentation, makes it seem like a straightforward procedure. While this may be true in many chin augmentation patients, it speaks to what is the most overlooked/underdiagnosed aspect of chin augmentation …lack of vertical height. A vertically short lower chin can be hard 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...