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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...
Despite the tremendous benefits of a custom jawline implant there is always the need for revision of it. Whether due to its size, design or placement the potential need (risk) of revisional surgery always exists. In fact that risk is higher for custom implants than standard implants which can be very confusing to patients. What Read More…
Background: Despite the common use of chin implants as an aesthetic facial surgery, some of the important technical aspects of the procedure remain misunderstood or at least underappreciated. The most basic is that an implant may be perfectly placed but if it is the wrong implant style or size then its placement becomes irrelevant. The Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty is one of the most well known aesthetic procedures in plastic surgery and has been performers in various ways for almost one hundred years. It is the original facial reshaping procedure as it focuses on a structural change to a prominent facial feature…the bone and cartilages of the nose. The nasal skin is Read More…
Background: Like many body structures aging affects their appearance over time. The male scrotum is no exception. As an envelope of skin, fascia and muscle that surrounds the dangling testicles the influence of a lifetime of friction between the thighs and the effects of gravity are bound to affect the scrotal appearance. But the biggest Read More…
Background: Chin implants remain the most commonly performed aesthetic facial augmentation procedure and recent reports indicate that it is increasing in popularity. As a single implant it has been called the most powerful facial enhancement procedure when judged by effect vs time of surgery to perform it. While it is performed in both genders it Read More…
Background: There are numerous upper lip aesthetic deformities that can occur of which the most recognized are external. (long upper lip, limited vermilion show, downturned mouth corners) But there are some internal upper lip aesthetic deformities that are less known as their occurrences are far less frequent. One recognizable internal upper lip aesthetic deformity is Read More…
Background: There are many different body locations where various types of lifts are performed for loose/excessive skin. Familiar lifts include procedures such as tummy tucks and brachioplasties. (arm lifts) The need for these lifts usually comes from weight loss and aging. No matter where on the body the lift is performed it involves an excisional Read More…
Liposuction is the first step (procedure) in rib removal surgery and is done to treat the superficial fat layer before going deeper into the ribs. While there are few variations as to how the initial liposuction is done the rib removal part can be done using various approaches. Having done hundreds of rib removal surgeries Read More…
Rib removal surgery is the final effort used for waistline narrowing. It is a procedure that is poorly understood in terms of what is actually done in the surgery and how it anatomically works. It is perceived as a bone removal procedure which allows the waist soft tissues around the ribs to collapse inward after Read More…
Background: In aesthetic jaw augmentation the most common approaches are purely implant-based. Using either standard chin and jaw angle implants or a custom wraparound implant the entire jawline can be augmented. The only autologous jaw augmentation method is for the chin with a sliding genioplasty. So another complete jaw augmentation method is to combine a 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...