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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: Vertical chin lengthening can be done by either an implant or a lengthening of the bone. While implants have limitations as to how much lengthening can be effectively done, osteotomies do not. While some surgeons feel that the amount of vertical chin lengthening needs to be limited this appears to be based on a Read More…
Background: The ear is remarkably resistant to the effects of aging and gravity due to its largely cartilaginous framework composition. The ear generally does not sag or drop with aging with the exception of the earlobe…the only non-cartilaginous part of the ear. The earlobe is well known to become longer due to the stretch of Read More…
The concept of shoulder reduction by removing a segment of the clavicle bone is fairly straightforward. A length of the bone is removed and the outer shoulder width follows inward. Executing it, however, is not quite that simple. As an aesthetic operation the location of the scar and its length become an important element of Read More…
Custom jawline implants are the definitive method for lower jaw/facial augmentation. By controlling all dimensions of the implant shape it is very much like expanding the bone boundaries of the entire lower jawbone. (specifically the inferolateral border from one jaw angle to the other) While patients understandably pay enormous attention and put a lot of Read More…
Background: One uncommon and not well known method of aesthetic jaw augmentation is a combined autologous-alloplastic approach. This combines the only aesthetic method of a jaw osteotomy with jaw implants. This means a bony genioplasty for the front of the jaw and custom implants for the back of the jaw. The indication for this type of Read More…
Downturning of the corner of the mouth is a frequent aesthetic request for change. While most commonly associated with aging some people have it as a natural shape of their mouth. In my experience it occurs more commonly in people who have a horizontal smile pattern as opposed to a superior-oblique pattern regardless of their Read More…
Background: The forehead can have a variety of unaesthetic forms that usually are reflective of the overall skull shape. This is not surprising given that the forehead is one of the five surfaces of an overall convex skull and all develop as a combined structure. This is well illustrated in the narrow forehead which often Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the jawline (lower jaw) is primarily done by implants. For the back part of the jaw (jaw angles) there are no autologous options so implants remain the only method. The chin, however, is different where implants and osteotomies have existed for a long time. This means in total jawline augmentation one Read More…
Background: The shape of the male forehead is associated with more prominent brow bones and a broader width than that of the female. It can also have more of a backward slope than a female but not excessively so. One of the challenges in male forehead augmentation is when the forehead is excessively narrow (pinched Read More…
There are two types of implants that can be used for aesthetic testicular enhancement. Both provide volume but do so with different characteristics that does affect the aesthetic outcome. In the spirit of the old adage whose origin comes from the advertising world, ‘One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words’ those differences are visually apparent. 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...