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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: One often under appreciated aspect of breast augmentation with implants in some patients is that what will occur is that the existing shape of the breast merely gets bigger. Breast implants do not possess magical properties and they can not cure all ills of one’s breast shape issues. This is why it is critical Read More…
The past few years have seen an increase in the number of cosmetic injectable catastrophes. They are easy to find since every one these injection problems appear quickly on the internet. All of these have been done by amateur non-medical people and, in some cases, the patients themselves who have suffered the severe complications including Read More…
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, breast augmentation or breast enlargement, was the most common body cosmetic surgical procedure performed in the United States in 2013. (over 290,000 performed) This surgery is done on an outpatient basis with most patients requiring minimal down-time before returning to every day activities. When choosing breast Read More…
Breast augmentation continues to be a popular body contouring procedure with over 300,000 women having their breasts enhanced last year alone in the U.S.. While it may be hard to see any association at all between breast implants and sugar and desserts, they are some visual and tactile similarities. This association has come about Read More…
Breast augmentation is one of the most popular body contouring operations. It creates an instantaneous effect that often can cause quite a dramatic change in a woman’s chest appearance. But its effects are due to a medical device and, as such, makes it prone to a higher rate of complications than any plastic surgery operation Read More…
Background: Body builders and figure enthusiasts create chest and arm muscular volume and definition by cutting fat and inducing muscular hypertrophy. But what differentiates male and female bodybuilders from a chest standpoint is that females should have a breast mound while men are flat. But due to the regimented stripping of fat as part of Read More…
Breast augmentation requires the insertion of an implant through an almost always smaller incision than the size of the implant. This is not an issue with saline breast implants since they are inserted in a rolled fashion and inflated once in place. But silicone breast implants must be placed fully filled and their placement through Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation results depends heavily on the implanted device to create it. More than any other aspect of breast enhancement surgery, women spend the most time contemplating what size breasts they want. From this they attempt to figure out what volume of breast implants will create that look. While numerous methods exist to help Read More…
Of the numerous complications that can occur in breast augmentation, capsular contracture is the most vexing of them all. The formation of excessive circumferential scar formation around the implant can be problematic in terms of the look and feel of the breast with potential hardness and shape distortion. The reason for capsular contracture in Read More…
The double bubble phenomenon after breast augmentation is not a rare occurrence. Appearing as a result of a crease in the middle of the lower pole of the breast, it is both a visual and palpable breast surface contour deformity. It is often stated that it is the result of disruption of the natural inframammary 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...