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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:Aging of the eyes is both an unavoidable eventuality for everyone and the first and most noticeable place on the face that it occurs. The classic findings are heavy or extra skin on the upper eyelids and bags on the lower eyelids. This combination makes for a tired or older appearance that is recognized Read More…
Buttock augmentation has become a part of mainstream body contouring plastic surgery. Creating a larger buttock has become desirous of those who have a normal size and just want to become bigger (ethnic buttock enhancement) to those who simply have never had one or ‘lost’ it at some point. Its popularity is largely due to Read More…
Scar therapy consists of a wide variety of possible treatments from injections, lasers and light devices and surgical excision. There is no one type of scar treatment which is uniformly effective for all scars. There are simply too many types of scars and differing skin types and body locations for any uniform approach to improving Read More…
A consultation with a plastic surgeon is usually the third step in one’s evolution towards having actual surgery. The first is the recognition of the need or desire and the next is the acquisition of basic information with some research. While the most detailed information and a definitive surgical plan can only be assured by Read More…
Background: A bump or hump on a nose is a common reason a patient will seek rhinoplasty surgery. A smooth or straight dorsal line is one of the more important aspects of a pleasing nasal appearance. While some small bump reductions can be achieved by a simple shaving of the bone edge, this is the Read More…
Device-based energy therapies for skin tightening and fat reduction have been around now for about a decade. Like computer and all electronic devices, their effectiveness improves with technologic advances. One of the recent device advances in heating fat and tightening skin is Exilis technology. This uses a well known energy technology, radiofrequency, to create its Read More…
Background: When a man presents for facial rejuvenation it frequently is driven by someone (or many) telling them they look tired. With enough repeated comments and in looking in the mirror, it eventually becomes evident that they in fact are looking tired. This most commonly is due to changes in the eye area. A man’s Read More…
The adornment of ears has been around since the dawn of civilization. Women and men have been putting all sorts of jewelry on ears from the top of the helix down to the earlobe. In what some may consider out of the ordinary or more extreme, the non-cartilaginous portion of the ear (earlobe) has even Read More…
Background:Breast augmentation works because it is a synthetic implant that makes the breasts bigger. While it is true that the role of the plastic surgeon is critical to get good implant placement in the proper position and as symmetrically as possible, but in the end the implant itself plays a major role in the final Read More…
Background:The signs and progression of facial aging are well known and fairly classic. Due to gravity and the loss of the attachments of the skin to the underlying tissues and bone, the skin of the face descends. With it comes fat which is attached to the undersurface of the skin. This appears early on as 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...