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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...
The concept of a drainless tummy tuck has been around for several years now and has met with mixed success. Some plastic surgeons claim they never place a drain and do not have any seromas while others almost always place drains with a low incidence of problems including seromas. Patients would obviously not like to Read More…
Background: Tummy tucks are one of the most common and successful body contouring procedures for women. For those women that are willing to make the commitment to a major surgery, scar and recovery, it can be a near life transforming experience that takes what diet and exercise can do to a whole new level. Because Read More…
Ever since the 1950s and the beginning of the evolution of the modern day tummy tuck, the search for techniques that produce a natural looking umbilicus have been both varied and different amongst many plastic surgeons. Everyone recognizes that complete loss of the umbilicus is associated with emotional disturbance in most patients even though it Read More…
Background: Tummy tuck surgery is most frequently thought of as a female procedure. Changes due to pregnancy and weight are the source of the need for improvements in a female’s abdominal and waistline shape. But men do occasionally undergo tummy tuck surgery but pregnancy is obviously not the reason. Weight loss is the exclusive reason Read More…
Background: Tummy tucks are done for a wide variety of abdominal wall deformities. Whether it is a small lower pooch from pregnancies or a large overhanging pannus from a lifetime of weight gain (and some weight loss), tummy tucks are done in an almost customized fashion for each patient. The location and extent of Read More…
Background: The tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) is one of the most popular of all the body contouring procedures. Whether helping to reverse the effects of pregnancy or that of weight loss, it achieves what no amount of diet and exercising can do…the removal of loose/stretched out abdominal skin. But it does so with the aesthetic trade-off Read More…
One of the traditional steps in most tummy tuck procedures is the correction of the separated rectus abdominus muscles or the recti diastasis. The stretching of the muscles and their enveloping sheaths caused by pregnancy often causes some visible separation in the midline which is commonly seen during tummy tuck surgery. While many patients think Read More…
Just like the process of pregnancy, recovering from it is also a function of time. Stretched out abdominal skin and muscles and engorged breasts will not instantly snap back into what they were. At the least it is a period of months before a woman’ s body has any chance of returning to its pre-pregnancy Read More…
The tummy tuck is the most commonly done excisional body contouring procedure. By the removal of a small (mini tummy tuck) or large (full tummy tuck) segment of skin and fat in the lower half of the abdomen, the remaining upper half of the abdominal skin is brought down over what was removed. Like the Read More…
Tummy tucks or abdominoplasties are a very popular body contouring procedure because it is tremendously effective.While diet and exercise are extremely important for weight loss, it will not get rid of loose skin. Conversely, tummy tucks are not a substitute for weight loss and should not be performed in a persistently obese patient under 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...