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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...
A extra nipple, in either men or women, is not rare. Occurring in up to 5% of the population, it is often mistaken for a mole due to its circular appearance. What separates it from a mole is that it is raised and has a textured and not a smooth appearance. It does not usually Read More…
Background: Transgender plastic surgery is a large compilation of feminizing face and body procedures. Of all of these procedures breast augmentation has the greatest impact on making a feminization change. It also do so in a rapid and assured manner, creating an instantaneous body shape change as all breast augmentation surgeries do. On average transgender Read More…
Background: Changes to the breasts are common with pregnancy and weight loss. The most common aesthetic breast deformities from these bodily changes include loss of beast tissue, stretch marks and breast sagging. While there are surgical corrections for loss of breast volumes and breast sagging, stretch marks remain resistant to any known treatment. Many women Read More…
The placement of breast implants is an obvious key ingredient in breast augmentation surgery. While there different incisional locations that can be used, the breast implants must be passed through the incision into the developed tissue pocket regardless of where it is placed. For saline implants, which are inserted deflated and rolled, the location or Read More…
Background: Breast implants are intended to enlarge the existing breast mounds. In so doing it is often erroneously believed that other features of the breast may be similarly improved. Unfortunately this is rarely true. Conversely any other deformities or asymmetries of the breast may actually become more noticeable not less. The most visible feature of Read More…
Background: One of the well known mottos amongst plastic surgeons regarding breast augmentation is that implants merely take what you have and make it bigger. While simplistic, this statement is largely true. Other than mound enlargement and the potential creation of enhanced cleavage from that effect, many of the other breast features remain the same Read More…
Background: With almost a million breast implants placed per year in the U.S. for aesthetic breast augmentation, the results achieved are highly variable even though the implants have the same basic shape. This is due a basic breast augmentation concept….all breast implants do is take what you have and make it look bigger. Breast implants Read More…
Background: Cleavage is defined as the area between the breasts. It usually confers that the inner or medial part of the breast mound encroaches upon the flat sternum which lies between the breasts. While the term defines a certain breast appearance it usually refers to a look that is seen in clothing such as a Read More…
Background: Breast implants have obvious effects on increasing the size of the breasts. While volume of the breast obtained per implant size will vary amongst patients, it is obvious that the larger the implant is the larger the breast becomes. But when it comes to breast implant shape, the effect on the outer breast is Read More…
Some women that undergo breast augmentation surgery have various breast asymmetries. These could be differences in the mound size, level of the inframammary fold and the size and shape of the nipple-areolar complex. Because it is the most visible part of the female breast, the size and location of the nipple on the breast mound 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...