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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...
The custom jawline implant is one of the most effective of all facial implants. By augmenting the entire inferolateral border of the lower jaw the entire shape of the lower face is changed and enhanced. Getting such a large implant into place, however, presents its own challenges. Not the least of which is getting it Read More…
Background: The primary objective of chin implants historically is to provide horizontal projection as this is the most requested dimensional change. They secondarily provide width, intended or unintended, due to the wings or lateral extensions that most chin implants have. The dimensions that most chin implants can not change is adding vertical length. They simply Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead has well known gender differences. Male foreheads have a slight backward slope, visible brow bones both medially and laterally as well as more width with potentially visible temporal lines at the sides of the forehead. These are forehead characteristics that are far more difficult to surgically create than the Read More…
While there are a large number of implants available for aesthetic augmentation of the middle and lower face, the upper third of the face (forehead) has remained devoid of any such off the shelf option. Forehead bone augmentation have up to the present time only been available using injection materials, bone cements or a custom Read More…
Background: The back of the head is commonly referred as the occiput even though this is not anatomically correct. The back of the head is actually comprised of the paired parietal bones superiorly and the singular central occipital bone inferiorly What separates the three bones is the inverted Y-shaped suture line, particularly the lambdoidal suture Read More…
The cheeks like the rest of the face is comprised of bony and soft tissue components that can be surgically modified. But what separates the cheeks from other facial areas is that the hard and soft tissue areas are not in the same anatomic area. The bony part is in the upper midface (cheekbones or Read More…
Custom skull implants are most commonly performed for flat areas of the back of the head. For flat spots in the back of the head the most common etiology is plagiocephaly, a unilateral or one-sided flat area on the back of the head. While plagiocephaly causes deformations of the entire shape of the skull (cranioscoliosis) Read More…
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…
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...