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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...
One of the best midface augmentation methods is that of the custom infraornital-malar (IOM) implant. While lesser known that injectable fillers and fat or standard tear trough implants, this unique implant style provides simultaneous treatment of undereye hollows and infraorbital deficiencies as well as providing cheek augmentations as well. It provides a horizontal line of Read More…
Background: Aesthetic surgery of the ear is commonly called otoplasty. This term is really a generic term that doesn’t really indicate what type of ear reshaping procedure is being done. Because the most common aesthetic ear reshaping surgery is historically for protruding ears, otoplasty is most commonly associated with ear pinning or a setback otoplasty Read More…
Background: BBL surgery is well known around the world and is a purely autologous approach to changing the size of the buttocks. It is a fat redistribution approach and these effects are synergestic…a smaller waistline make the buttocks look bigger and vice versa. Such BBL surgery is dependent on how much fat one has to Read More…
Background: A common method of aesthetic jaw augmentation in my practice, although not well known at all to many, is combining an osteotomy with implants. In this specific method a bony genioplasty is done for the anterior third of the jaw and custom implants are used for the remaining two-thirds of the jaw behind it. Read More…
Background: A midface deficiency affects the middle third of the face from the infraorbital rims down to the maxillary alveolus. In its classic presentation the patient has a class III malocclusion or underbite but that may not be evident if prior orthodontic correction and orthognathic surgery has been done. Despite a corrected occlusion the midface Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is controlled largely by the thickness and contours of the skull bones. While the skull is often perceived as being a uniform set of bones encasing the brain, it varies considerably across its five surfaces. (forehead, top of head, back of head and paired temporal regions) The back of Read More…
The use of custom skull implants is a standard and effective method in my practice for almost all types of aesthetic skull augmentations. While any shape and size of custom skull implant can be designed that does not mean, however, that it can be successfully placed. The scalp is a tight enveloping soft tissue layer Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery is done in either transgender male to females or cis-females for shoulder dysphoria. Having done many such procedures at this point I have had the epiphany that the term ‘shoulder narrowing’ does not accurately describe what occurs. Because the clavicle is a lazy s-shaped bone with a horizontal orientation, a removal Read More…
One of the most common male masculinization composite procedures is custom jawline and infraorbital-malar (IOM) implants. By creating a more visible/defined cheeks and jaw structure the face takes on a stronger and more defined appearance.Think of this as a ‘five corner’ approach to facial reshaping. (cheeks, jaw angles and chin) In some cases those augmentations Read More…
Custom skull implant designs are the most effective approach to just about any aesthetic head augmentation problem. By using a preformed implant with a design based on the patient’s 3D skull CT scan the desired head shape change is more likely to be achieved than using older bone cement techniques where intraoperative hand shaping of 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...