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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: Augmentation of the jaw angles can be done by injectable therapies or implants. The advantage of implants is their permanency and improved control of the final jaw angle shape. Like all aesthetic implants their main disadvantages the risk of infection, implant malposition and the recovery. But one aesthetic disadvantage not frequently mentioned is the Read More…
Background: There are numerous methods of performing aesthetic jaw augmentation. While some interpret jaw enhancement as chin augmentation that is an antiquated concept. While in the past the only known method of ‘jaw augmentation’ was a chin implant or a sliding genioplasty, jaw augmentation today means either isolated jaw angle implants, a chin procedure with Read More…
Background: The large ear can be vertically reduced of which the most common method is a ‘high and low ‘technique. The bottom of the ear is vertically reduced by a helical rim excision of the earlobe. The top of the ear is reduced by a scaphal flap rotation after excision of the middle part of Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is the autologous form of aesthetic chin augmentation. Even though it is a bone procedure it is subject to the same aesthetic issues as any chin implant. Patients can have aesthetic postoperative concerns about the amount of forward projection/vertical length or width as well as asymmetry issues. And just because it is Read More…
Background: Of the different body changes that a transfemale desires having a non-straight body figure is important. There are numerous ways to achieve that effect from breast and hip augmentation to abdominal/flank liposuction. But when those options have been exhausted or negated the last remaining procedure to consider is waistline reduction by rib removals. There Read More…
Background: Aesthetic body implants, excluding breast implants, strive to achieve muscular enhancements. The most common body implants are placed in the chest (for men), buttocks and calfs and because of their level of patient requests exist in standard shapes and sizes. Other muscles of the body can be augmented but with less frequent requests are Read More…
Background: Custom implants provide a reliable method of aesthetic skull augmentation based on their 3D preoperative design. But no matter how good an implant design is the final aesthetic result also depends on its proper placement and how well the scalp scar heals through which the implant is placed. Provided a good design and implant Read More…
Reshaping the full or round cheek area is most commonly treated by a buccal lipectomy. This now popular procedure, performed intraorally and with a very low rate of any complications, has often misunderstood aesthetic effects. It has its effects in the upper cheek which is defined by what lies north of a line drawn between Read More…
Background: In shortening the clavicles in shoulder reduction surgery there are two factors to consider. Howe much bone length can be removed? How much fixation hardware is needed to support it for uncomplicated healing? Since all patients do not have the same clavicle lengths some adjustments have to be made in the length not bone Read More…
Part of the success of aesthetic skull augmentation with custom implants depends on the stretch of the overlying scalp to accommodate it. While the scalp can be released and it has some natural ability to be elongated there are limits. Unlike using a bicoronal scalp incision (ear to ear) in which the extent of the 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...