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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 appearance of the head can have multiple types of undesired aesthetic shapes. One of these unaesthetic types is that of the narrow head. This occurs when the head has a decreased bitemporal width as seen by a narrow or more pinched forehead that carries back along the side of head all the way Read More…
Background: The desire for more narrow shoulder widths is an exclusive female aesthetic desire. Whether this presents in transgender or cis-female patients is irrelevant as the surgical procedure is the same as well as its outcome assessment. Standard bideltoid width distances do exist to define what is outside the normal range. And most patients that Read More…
The orbital floor and surgical efforts to change its shape/position are typically associated with fracture management. The thin nature of the bony thickness of the orbital floor and its support of the overlying eyeball may it prone to being pushed downward into the maxillary sinus with direct trauma to the eyeball or cheekbone. Its reconstruction Read More…
Calf implants are placed on top of the gastrocnemius muscles but under their overlying enveloping fascia. To place the implants separate small incisions are placed on the back of the knee in the popliteal crease above each muscle head. From the incision to the gastrocnemius fascia it is necessary to dissect past the semimembranous/semitendinous tendons Read More…
Background: V line surgery is a now well known lower jaw reshaping procedure to help slim the lower face. In its original and still most commonly used technique, a vertical amputation (oblique ostectomy) of the lower jaw is done from the jaw angles forward to the anterior body of the mandible. This is then combined Read More…
The long upper lip can only be treated by shortening the skin distance between the base of the nose and the vermilion-skin border. The subnasal lip lift is the most known and commonly performed of all the surgical lip enhancement procedures to achieve this effect. Its appeal is that it places the incision under the Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull reshaping surgery consists of a wide variety of reductive and augmentative procedure for head shape concerns. One of the most common augmentative procedures is for the back of the head using a custom designed skull implant. This is done for concerns of asymmetry, lack of adequate projection or a combination of both. Read More…
Background: Breast reduction is a commonly performed procedure particularly on younger patients even in their teens. At a young age large breasts can cause a variety of musculoskeletal symptoms as well as physical embarrassment which can benefit by breast reduction surgery. But breasts are rarely stable throughout a woman’s life as pregnancies, weight loss and Read More…
The most common lower extremity body contouring implant is that of the calfs. Both the inner and outer head of the gastrocnemius muscles can be augmented through incisions placed behind the knee. But there are other leg implants that can be done above the knee in the anterolateral thighs. Thigh or quad implants are available Read More…
Custom skull implants provide a contemporary method of aesthetic skull augmentation for a wide variety of head shape deficiencies. While the most common material for such custom skull implant is solid silicone, no skull augmentation material composition will allow tissue ingrowth. Tissue ingrowth should not be confused with tissue adhesion. Tissue ingrowth is where an 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...