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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: Many women who are to undergo breast augmentation surgery have asymmetric breasts. These asymmetries may be in breast mound size, breast mound shape, amounts of sagging and the nipple position. Preoperative education about how breast implants will impact these asymmetries is of critical importance as breast implants alone will not correct many breast asymmetries. Read More…
For women undergoing breast augmentation surgery, the location as well as the size of the breast implants is of critical importance. While women can participate in the selection of the size of their breast implants, they have little say in where they are positioned on the chest wall. Ideally the plastic surgeon centers the implant Read More…
Breast augmentation using breast implants is the tried and proven method to increase breast size. It does so by an outward displacement of the overlying breast tissue (parenchyma) and skin due to the push of the implant. Plastic surgeons have recognized for years that the push/pressure of the implant causes a reduction or loss Read More…
Background: While the effects of breast implants can last a lifetime, the implants themselves may need to be replaced due to mechanical failure. This is a well known reality of breast implants and the younger of age one has them placed the near 100% probability they will need to be replaced over one’s lifetime. But Read More…
Background: Breast implants are available in a wide variety of sizes based on volume. (ccs) Implant size ranges from 150cc to 800cc for most manufacturers. The vast majority of women achieve their breast augmentation goals in the median of these numbers in the 300cc to 500cc range. Large breast implants would be judged by Read More…
Background: Stretch marks are a common occurrence on female breasts. They usually occur from pregnancy and breast feeding but may also occur from large amounts of weight loss. The pattern of stretch marks on the breasts are almost always in a radiating pattern from the nipple which is completely perpendicular to the natural relaxed skin Read More…
Background: After fifty years breast implants have gone through many evoutions and filler material and shell designs. In silicone breast implants the latest design innovation is that of the shaped or anatomic implant. It is also called a tear drop breast implant as well. Like that of a natural aging breast a greater percentage of Read More…
Background: Differences in the size and shape of a woman’s breasts between the two sides is very common. Sometimes the breast asymmetry is very obvious and it is well recognized. Many times, however, the breast asymmetry is more subtle and the woman is not even aware of it. Women tend to pay more attention to Read More…
Surgery of the breast is very common in women with breast augmentation being the most common aesthetic operation. There are many potential complications of breast augmentation surgery but fortunately most of them are minor and some of them are even self-solving. Technically if an after surgery problem eventually resolves on its own without surgical treatment Read More…
Background: Despite the breasts being a paired chest structure, they rarely are perfectly symmetric. These asymmetries may be slight and often are completely unrecognized by many women until they are pointed out. Larger breast asymmetries are more well known to the patient and may have been caused by natural breast development, pregnancies, breast feeding or 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...