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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 chin implant is the most assured form of augmentation of the lower anterior third of the face. This approach is particularly needed when a specific chin size or shape is desired. Given the unique shape requirements of a square chin shape and the lack of a really effective standard square chin implant a Read More…
Pectoral implants are the only effective surgical method of chest muscle augmentation. They are typically placed through a high axillary incision for direct access to the submuscular pocket between the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. The creation of the submuscular pocket is done using instruments through the axillary incision and is essentially done blind Read More…
Background: Temporal hollowing results from lipoatrophy which can occur for a variety of reasons from aging to medical conditions. Variety methods have been used treat it, most of which are injectable, but the only permanent method are implants. Temporal implants are unique from all other aesthetic facial implants in that they are designed to augment Read More…
Background: Chin implants are the original form of aesthetic facial augmentation. Their design has always been primarily for horizontal augmentation with variable amounts of width increases built into different implant styles. While some patients have been recognized as needing some vertical height increases as well surgeons have typically used these horizontally projecting implants in a Read More…
Background: The sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull prominence whose presence is magnified in the male with short hair or a shaved head. The sagittal crest comes in a wide variety of presentations from a small bump to a long elongated ridge. In many sagittal crests the head shape has an inverted V shape Read More…
Implants provide a permanent method for augmentation of temporal hollowing. Placed at the sub fascial level they create a muscle augmentation effect as an interpositional material between the muscle and the overlying fascia. As of today there are two styles of standard temporal implants. For hollowing that is limited to the lower half of the Read More…
Chin augmentation is an aesthetic facial procedure that has been done for just about 100 years. The first reported procedure was done way back in 1928 using a cartilage graft to the chin. The use of carved ivory was also done in the early chin augmentation days. But the procedure never achieved any popularity in Read More…
Background: The concept of the sliding genioplasty is fairly straightforward. Cut the chin bone, move it forward and put a plate on it to hold it into place. While this is true there are numerous aesthetic and technical considerations involved that can make for a successful or unsuccessful aesthetic outcome. Such factors include what dimensional Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies a full one third of the face and is typically perceived as a flat nondescript bony surface. But its surface topography is more complex with potential brow bone prominences, a central glabellar valley, supra brow bone breaks, frontal eminence prominences and lateral temporal lines. All of which can lead to an Read More…
Background: The narrow head shape is defined as having a decreased bi-temporal and bi-parietal bony skull widths. These can be determined by actual measurements but, more importantly, it can be seen from the outside as well as just looking at a 3D CT skull scan of the patient. The narrow head shape may often involves 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...