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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...
According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic surgery, who has compiled statistics on cosmetic surgery for years, the most common cosmetic surgery in 2011 was liposuction. This is not surprising given that liposuction has a large number of treatable sites on the body from the neck to the ankle. This is unlike, for example, Read More…
It wasn’t all that long ago that the fat injection treatment, Lipodissolve, was tremendously popular. While used in many other countries before being introduced in the U.S. almost ten years ago, it achieved quick notoriety amongst numerous practitioners. Because it offered a non-surgical method of fat reduction, the public was equally if not more enamored Read More…
Extra or supernumery nipples (polythelia) are fairly common occurring in about 5% of men and 2% of women. They occur along the embryonic milk lines that run from the armpit to the groin in all mammals. They are often mistaken for moles because they are quite small. They usually appear on just one side but Read More…
Injectable fillers have come a long way since the approval of the first non-collagen based product in 2002. While once conceived as only a way to make lips bigger and nasolabial folds less deep, injectable fillers have evolved into an aesthetic technology that has a wide number of facial uses. Aiding the expanded uses has Read More…
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons was established in 1931 and is the largest plastic surgery society in the world with over 7,000 board-certified members. It allows its surgeon members to use a simple logo design that is made up of two swooshes that form an incomplete circle. It’s abstract design is to indicate the Read More…
Background: Poland’s syndrome is a very well known set of congenital malformations involving one side of the chest and arm. The complete set of findings include a smaller hand with webbing and an underdeveloped sterno-clavicular portion of the pectoralis muscle. This results in a smaller chest on the affected side with a less developed nipple Read More…
The proven and effective method for buttock augmentation is through the use of soft flexible synthetic implants or fat injections. While each of these two approaches is not perfect and has their own advantages and disadvantages, they are safe medical therapies. But like in every other cosmetic procedure, patients do seek easier and less expensive Read More…
There are many reasons that patients request surgical changes to their face. With over twenty different facial regions that can be altered, there are seemingly endless options and combinations. But when you break it down, there are two main reasons for making cosmetic changes to the face. I divide these into either facial anti-aging surgery Read More…
One of the classic signs of early facial aging are lines and wrinkles that form in the forehead and between the eyebrows. As a reflection of the numerous muscles that make our facial expressions, wrinkles inevitably form in linear arrangements that are perpendicular to how the underlying muscles are oriented and move. This is Read More…
The face ages with a classic set of findings including the development of wrinkles, loose skin, fat atrophy and age or brown spots. The rest of the body ages as well but most of it does not have the amount of sun exposure to which the face is exposed. Therein lies the differences in 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...