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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...
When injectable fillers were first introduced they were used for very specific spots areas such as the lips and nasolabial folds. But today there use has extended to every conceivable facial augmentation need or request. Facial bone augmentation by injectable fillers is now commonly done for chin, cheek and jaw augmentation. Beyond the differences with Read More…
In waistline narrowing surgery the distal sections of the lower free floating ribs are removed to allow the waistline to collapse inward. While the ribs are not the only structures supporting the width of the waistline they are the most rigid. Without rigid support the soft tissue layers of the waistline eventually contract down/inward, very Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing by clavicle bone reduction is an effective procedure in body feminization efforts. The most important components of the procedure are how much bone to remove and what type of bone fixation should be used to support it as it heals. Patients understandably focus on how much bone is to be removed as Read More…
The well known sliding genioplasty is sometimes selected by patients because they wish to avoid a submental scar from a chin implant. The incision location may not be the primary reason but may on the list of several motivations for choosing a bony chin augmentation procedure.While an intraoral incision avoids a scar it has its Read More…
While brow bone reduction is fairly well known because of the emergence of facial feminization surgery, less is known about its opposite cousin brow bone augmentation. While aesthetic brow bone augmentation has been done sporadically for years there has never been a completely satisfactory method for doing so. Different biomaterials have been used, usually hand Read More…
The breast and buttock regions dominate the locations for aesthetic implant augmentation on the body based on largely female requests. The hip area has become an increasingly popular request for implant augmentation due to its proximity to the buttocks and the ability to help provide some visible more feminine curves below the waistline. But the Read More…
Lip augmentations is most commonly done by hyaluron-baed injectable fillers and has been so for over the past two decades. While very effective with immediate results they are not permanent and, as a result, some patient do develop filler fatigue. It is not the most pleasant facial site to inject so it is understandable why Read More…
All forms of skull reshaping surgery require incisions to perform them. Like most of aesthetic surgery the access incisions and the scars that they create are a tradeoff to achieve the desired aesthetic result. While in many procedures these scars are fairly hidden and do not represent a visible tradeoff, such can not be said Read More…
Background: The differences between a chin implant and a sliding genioplasty go beyond the differences in the invasiveness of the surgery. While in small amounts of chin augmentation their aesthetic effects may be fairly similar, these changes when more significant chin augmentation changes are needed are different. As a general guideline chin implants were designed Read More…
Downturning of the corners of the mouth can occur from aging or as part of a natural mouth shape. Regardless of its origin downturned mouth corners are not a desirable mouth shape as it conveys an impression of unhappiness or even appearing angry or mad. The most common form of lifting of the downturned mouth 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...