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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...
Hip implants remain an evolving aesthetic procedure as evidenced by the lack of any standard implant to do so. Part of this is due to the historic lack of demand for the procedure as well as cultural norms in the Western world where larger hips was not seen as desirable. But that has all changed Read More…
The custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the shape of the lower third of the face. Besides augmenting the chin and jaw angle areas its connected design expands the entire inferolateral border of the jawline in a wraparound fashion. That creates a surprising but beneficial aesthetic effect of creating a more clear Read More…
Background: Aesthetic contouring of the cheeks could involve augmentation or reduction. In either case potential treatment areas include the bone or the soft tissue. Augmentation is the most conceptually understood because that involves either an implant to augment the bone or fat injections to add volume to the soft tissues. Conversely cheek reduction means reducing Read More…
The most common perception of eye hollows relates to that of the lower eyelid. This is where the area underneath the lid margin is sunken in with a concave appearance which could be due to congenital development, aging, significant weight loss, illness or even prior surgery from prior lower blepharoplasty surgery. While less commonly occurring Read More…
Background: Wide or excessive convex shaped sides of the head are associated with both aesthetic and occasional functional symptoms. Aesthetically the side of the head is generally desired to be straight and not convex or bowed out. When it is excessively wide both the shape of the bone and the thickness of the muscle can Read More…
The use of standard chin and jaw angle implants has long been a proven method of creating a more complete jaw augmentation effect. By adding augmentations at the three corners of the lower jaw its shape is changed although not in entirely complete fashion. As the implants indicate it is the corners that are changed Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation must consider the three dimensions including horizontal, vertical, and width. But when bony asymmetry exist this adds another variable to consider. The choice between a standard and custom implant comes down to the aesthetic dimensional needs and whether any asymmetry exist. Unique or exaggerated dimensional needs as well as any amount of Read More…
Chin implants because of their very interior augmentation of a projecting solitary point as well as the ability to easily see the implant and the bone serve as an excellent study in the biologic response of the bone to the implant. Because of the clear visibility of the implant on the bone, particularly in lateral Read More…
Background: Chin implant are the most common form of aesthetic facial augmentation and our widely perform by all surgeons that operate in the face. However, despite the frequency of them being done and he perception that it is a fairly simple operation, there is a relatively high rate of revision with their use. One of Read More…
In the Asian face wide cheeks with a flatter midface is a common facial skeletal shape. There are well known bone reduction operations that address the wide cheeks but there are no osteotomy or bone moving operations that can address the lack of cheek and infraorbital rim anterior projection. Such increased projections require an implant 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...