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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: 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…
Tuberous breasts are a well known congenital breast problem that presents in varying degrees of deformity. It has its greatest impact with the patient who presents for breast augmentation and often adjunctive strategies must be done at the time of implant placement to get a good breast shape result. Women often recognize that their breast(s) Read More…
Background: Loss of breast volume is very common amongst women usually caused by pregnancies or weight loss. As the breast deflates sagging of the breast mound often occurs. As long as the nipple remains positioned at or above the inframammary fold (lower breast crease) augmentation with breast implants will adequately fill up and out the Read More…
Background: The size of breast implants selected for any woman’s breast augmentation is usually a hybrid between the patient’s desire and the surgeon’s recommendations. Many women are heavily focused on a natural look and fear looking like they have had their breasts ‘done’. They talk about being proportionate and having a new breast size that Read More…
Background: Many may perceive that breast augmentation is about getting bigger breasts but for many women is merely about getting back to what they once had. Usually due to pregnancies and breast feeding, a woman’s actual breast volume will almost always become less through a normal biologic phenomenon known as involution. This may not be Read More…
Background: Breast implants come in variety of options from different filler materials (saline vs silicone), sizes and varying projections. (height to width ratios) One additional implant option is that of shape. (round vs teardrop/anatomic) For the typical patient this many breast implant options can be bewildering so it is helpful if the patient goes through Read More…
Background: As breast augmentation is the most popular cosmetic body procedure done today, it is no surprise that it captures a wide range of female ages. Just as it has the interest of very young women, even under the age of 21, it has of equal interest to those older women 55 years and Read More…
Background: Breast implant surgery works by the simple principle of placing a device under the breast tissues that pushes outward and creates a larger breast mound. Regardless of whether the implant is placed under the glandular tissue (subglandular) or partially or completely submuscular the outward result of a larger breast remains the same. Since the Read More…
When one combines the number of elective breast augmentations performed and the incidence of breast cancer occurrence, it is no surprise that the two would intersect. While ultrasound and mammography are excellent breast cancer screening tools they are not perfect and not every tumor will be detected. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well known Read More…
Background: The demand for breast implants has not waned in women over the past several decades. This is a testament to the success of the procedure in accomplishing its single goal…effective breast enlargement. The devices used to accomplish this body contouring goal have been modified and improved over the years, and are not without their 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...