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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...
One of the most popular body contouring procedures in the past decade is BBL surgery or the Brazilian Butt Lift. It is commonly performed not only due to the rise in modern culture of the desire for a larger buttock size but also because it uses a natural material to do so. (fat) An ancillary Read More…
Background: While the chin bone draws a lot of aesthetic attention the soft tissue that covers it is often overlooked. This soft tissue coverage, known as the chin pad, is a combination of skin, fibrofatty tissue and muscle. It starts superiorly at the labiomental fold and ends inferiorly on the underside of the chin at Read More…
Temporal reduction is a procedure that was developed as a skull reshaping procedure to narrow the wide head shape. Specifically to reduce the convex shape and fullness on the side of the head. Contrary to the perception of the need to remove bone to create this effect it is actually the temporal muscle which needs Read More…
Background: There are only two effective surgical methods for creating a complete midface augmentation effect. The most well known are the variety of LeFort osteotomies. They work by moving whatever amount of bone that remains attached to the dentoalveolar complex based on the location of the osteotomy line. In a Lefort III the osteotomy line Read More…
Background: The most effective method of aesthetic lower jaw augmentation is a custom jawline implant. Extending from one jaw angle to the other the entire inferolateral border of the jaw is augmented creating a connected and linear external lower facial enhancement. While tremendously effective there are limits in regards to the concept of implant load. Read More…
There are a variety of small contour irregularities (lumps and bumps) that can occur on the forehead from either congenital or traumatic origins. Such bony prominences, even if they are small in. size can be very visible on the broad expanse of the forehead. The reflection of the light from various angles on the forehead Read More…
The eyelids provide aesthetically important shape to the eye area and has a greater influence on the appearance of this part of the face than the eyeball itself. Their horizontal coverage of the eyeball creates how much of the eyeball is seen particularly scleral show. The amount of scleral show determines how wide open the Read More…
Background: One of the least appreciated and treated areas of the face historically is the temporal region. That has changed with the widespread use of injectable fillers and fat injections where the addition of volume can be readily accomplished. The vast majority of these temporal volumizing treatments are done in women where temporal hollowing is Read More…
Background: The lower third of the face in men is a very important aesthetic feature. It defines both a more sculpted facial shape but is well known to crate a more masculine appearance. The historic and obvious approach to creating a more masculine face is chin augmentation. While effective it is a limited approach to Read More…
Background: Chin ptosis is a well known aesthetic deformity of the soft tissue chin pad that almost always has an iatrogenic cause. (prior surgery) Chin implant removals, intraoral bony chin reductions and decreased bone support of the soft tissue pad through osteotomies are all common surgical histories that I see when patients present with problematic 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...