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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...
Mouth widening is a requested procedure when a patient feels it its disproportionately small/narrow to their face. The typical aesthetic measurement is where the mouth corners sit based on a vertical line dropped down from the pupil of the eye. When the mouth corner sits inside that line it is generally deemed that its width Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull has been described as most aesthetic if it follows the Golden Ratio. This is described as the length and shape of two arcs between the nasion and the inion subdivided by the bregma in profile. These two profile arcs, the bregma-inion (BI) and nasion-bregma (NB), ideally should be in Read More…
Background: Enlargement of the testicles involves the placement of an implant. Testicular enlargement is different than testicular replacement in that a testicle is in place and the space it occupies is requested to the enlarged. This can be done by one of two methods, side by side implant placement and wrapping the existing the testicle Read More…
Background: The skull is an overall oblong shape that has five distinct surfaces to it. (front, back , top and two sides) The main anatomic ‘dividing line’ between all of these surface of the bony temporal line. This is a distinct raised ridge of bone that starts at the tail of the brow bone anteriorly Read More…
Background: The skull is a collection of numerous curved shapes that appear most prominently when viewed from oblique angles of the head. Such head curvatures are particularly seen in the bald or shaved head male. (the latter in particular) One of these head angles or curvatures of the hairless male head is in the oblique Read More…
Background: The desire for a smaller waistline is an historic one for women that dates back for centuries by non-surgical tightening garments. Surgical approaches more recently have included the well known procedures of liposuction and various forms of tummy tucks. Most recently more internal procedures like rib removal offers improved waistline narrowing results in properly Read More…
Background: One of the many body changes that occur after significant weight loss are they development to varying degrees of so called ‘bat wings’. This is where loose skin and its underlying fatty tissue hang off of the arms making a large loose triceps back side region of the arms. It is called batwings because Read More…
The shape of the jawline can be changed by a variety of bone reshaping procedures. Some of these procedures are for augmentation purposes (sliding genioplasty, chin wing osteotomy) while others are for jaw reduction. (v line surgery) These technique are usually for an overall jaw size change, not necessarily changing its shape while keeping it Read More…
Background: Osteomas are well known benign bony grows that commonly occur on various areas of the skull. They most commonly present on the skull between the bony temporal lines. Very rarely have I seen them outside the bony temporal lines on the sides of the head where the temporal muscle is located. When such hard Read More…
Background: The back of the head and concerns about its shape account for almost half of aesthetic skull reshaping patients in my experience. Concerns typical involve asymmetries from plagiocephaly, various types of occipital bone protrusions (knobs and buns) and flattening of part or all of the back of the head. The two techniques for back 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...