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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 an anatiomically shaped breast implant is not new and dates back for over a decade. Simplistically, it is an implant where the retaining shell has a shape that allows more implant volume to be in the lower half than in the upper half. The inexact ratio is about 2/3s volume lower Read More…
Despite the success and high patient satisfaction with breast implant surgery, it is not a complication-free operation as it uses a device to achieve its effect. Historically the most well known breast augmentation complication was hardening of the breast (capsular contracture) due to excessive circumferential scar formation around the implanted spherical device. While once the Read More…
Background: The use of the transaxillary (armpit incision) for breast augmentation has been historically limited to the use of saline implants. Because saline implants are inserted deflated, they are rolled into a tight ‘burrito’ and inserted through an incision that is usually no bigger than an inch or 2.5 cms. in most cases. This creates Read More…
The number of women who are undergoing breast augmentation on an annual basis shows no sign of decreasing anytime soon. It is a popular body changing/improvement operation because it creates an instantaneous change with the insertion of a breast implant. The size of the implant plays an obvious major role in enlarging the breast Read More…
Background: The desire for larger breasts is very effectively achieved through the placement of implants behind the breast tissue/mound. This will create a larger and rounder breast mound but that is usually the limit of what it actually achieves. Implants have little capability to do much breast lifting and it can not change the position Read More…
Breast augmentation is the ‘simple’ procedure of placing an implant to increase the size of the breast. It does so by pushing out the overlying soft tissue and creating a bigger mound. While the increase in breast size is always completely predictable, the final shape that the breast will achieve is not. The breast may Read More…
Despite the different types and sizes of breast implants and the different incisions used to place them, all these breast augmentation issues share one factor…implant insertion. With a prefilled and fully inflated silicone breast implant, there is increased difficulty in getting the implant into place because of the mismatch between the diameter of the Read More…
Breast augmentation requires the placement of an implant to create its desired effects. To put the implant in place, a skin incision is needed of which the three standard options are the inframmary crease (lower breast fold), the areolar area (nipple) and a transaxillary (armpit) location. Each of these breast implant incisions have their Read More…
Background: The choice of implant size is often the most important issue that every women ponders before her breast augmentation procedure. While there is no exact science to making that selection, important considerations include breast and implant base diameters, the amount of breast mound skin and what final breast shape (round vs. tear drop) Read More…
A recent story from the New York Daily News reports on a young woman who had a breast implant ‘fall out of her body’. While very unfortunate for this young lady, this very concern is one that prospective breast augmentation patients often ask if it can happen. Since the most common location for the 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...