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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: The most common and successful method of buttock augmentation is injectable fat grafting. Known more commonly as BBL surgery this procedure produces a dual aesthetic benefit from the harvest for the fat (reduction) to the buttock injection site. (augmentation) Because of the success of this procedure as well as being an autologous one, I Read More…
Custom implants can be made for any region of the face and it is best think of them according to the facial thirds. For the mandible (lower facial thirds) custom implants are typically made for the chin, jaw angles or a total jawline implant. For the middle third (midface) custom infraorbital, malar, infraorbital-malar and midface Read More…
Background: While the chin used to be the only part of the jawline that was augmented, such aesthetic changes are now done for the rest of the jawline as well. Standard styles of jaw angle implants exist as well as the most contemporary custom jawline implant which changes the shape of the entire jawline. The Read More…
Background: While a sliding genioplasty may be an autologous procedure rather than an implant-based method of chin augmentation, it is still susceptible to the risks of the need for aesthetic revision. The chin may have been advanced too far forward for the patient’s aesthetic desires or time has determined that getting back closer to their Read More…
Background: Temporal reduction remains the only known effective procedure for a reshaping/narrowing of the side of the head. This is particularly useful, almost always in the male patient, in which the side of their head has too much convexity and they desire a more straight line appearance to it. Since the side of the head Read More…
The classic facial masculinization procedure in my practice is the combination of ‘cheek’ and ‘jaw’ implants. Technically these are more than these names imply. These male facial implants are custom made and cover larger surface areas of the midface and jawbone to create their effects. For this reason they are better described as infraorbital-malar (cheek) Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known aesthetic head shape deformity in which the origin of the name means twisted skull. When viewed from above the skull shape is also often called cranioscoliosis based on its axis of rotation. in the majority of cases this rotation is counter clockwise, meaning the right back of the head Read More…
Background: The most common methods of lower facial (jawline) augmentation are either non-surgical temporary injectable fillers or permanent surgically placed implants. The use of standard chin and jaw angle implants offers a convenient option for permanent jawline augmentation that requires no significant presurgical preparation with fairly low implant cost. It is also the surgical jawline Read More…
One of the most common misconceptions about facial implants is that they cause bone erosion. Most of this perception comes from the appearance of the bone in profile in chin implants on lateral cephalometric x-rays going back many decades. Other perceptions of this phenomenon are from surgeon’s observation during chin implant removal and/or replacement where Read More…
Central midface augmentation refers to varying amounts of pyriform aperture implant coverages. The most common area is the paranasal region which lies under the base of the nostrils. This maxillary region has a slightly concave surface contour as a defined rim of bone around the nasal cavity. It is typically treated as a skeletal deformity 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...