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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: Unlike skull reconstruction elective aesthetic skull augmentation has a much more limited history. Due to an historic low demand and limited options for performing it building up areas of the skull has relied on the use of bone cement, mainly PMMA. (acrylic) By history such bone cements were initially made for reconstruction of skull Read More…
Background: Double jaw or Bimax surgery is a popular procedure today often done for improving skeletal facial projection as well as in the treatment of significant obstructive sleep apnea. These facial osteotomy movements are often significant often 10mms forward movements or greater. This is very different than in the history of jaw surgery, where it Read More…
Background: Men who request forehead augmentation fall into two general types, a forehead augmentation that does not include the brow bones and forehead augmentation that does include them. The custom forehead implant is the superior method to achieve good aesthetic outcomes with either type of forehead augmentation but the footprint in their designs are obviously Read More…
Background: Masculinization of the male face typically involves augmentation of the facial bones. More prominent facial bones are typically associated with a stronger facial appearance. The lower jaw or jawline is the most common type of facial bone augmented as a strong jaw/jawline has long been associated with a more masculine appearance. But the lower Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is a well known and effective chin reshaping procedure. Besides being an autologous chin augmentation method its value lies in its ability to make multi-dimensional changes particularly in the horizontal and vertical projections. But in so doing it does create an abnormal shape to the normal lazy S-shaped bony profile of the Read More…
The most powerful form of aesthetic jaw augmentation is the custom jawline implant. It is so effective because it increases the dimensions of the entire jawline up to the limit of the overlying soft tissues in a three-dimensional fashion. The soft tissue limits are a function of how comfortably the implant fits into a fully Read More…
Background: The tip of the nose is the most common area that is changed in many rhinoplasty surgeries. It is an anatomically complex structure of the nose due to the merging of the paired lower alar cartilages and the midline septum. This cartilage confluence is frequently referred to as a tripod concept from an architectural Read More…
Background: Cheek augmentation historically is a a fairly uniform facial augmentation concept using standard implants. But contemporary cheek augmentation is a much more diverse form of midface augmentation due to the use of custom facial implant designs. Anatomically the cheek is a mixed bone and soft tissue area of the midface but it also connects Read More…
Background: A high or prominent sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull shape concern. Theoretically it can appear anywhere along the length of the congenital sagittal suture line from the bregma anteriorly to the lambda posteriorly. But in all cases I have ever seen it occurs from the bregma back to the crown of the Read More…
Hip implants are unique amongst all aesthetic body implants. Their vertical orientation in a more superficial tissue pocket location is what separates it from other body implants. Any extremity (arm and leg) implant does also have a periodic vertical orientation but those implants are either in the subfascial or submuscular pockets which provide better 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...