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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...
Facial gender identity is highlighted by several facial areas or zones. One of these facial areas in the upper third of the face or forehead. The relevance of this is seen in facial feminization surgery where the most consistent procedure performed is forehead reshaping surgery in most transgender male to female patients. The more convex Read More…
One of the original contouring procedures in facial feminization surgery is that of reshaping the forehead. Brow bone reduction still remains one of the defining facial contouring procedures that separates male vs. female appearance. It is a well described technique that fundamentally can be done by either burring reduction or a bone flap setback technique. Read More…
The shape of the eye is affected by its numerous hard and soft tissue anatomic components. The bony orbit is one of the eye’s major influences on its shape as it provides a circumferential rim of support onto which all surrounding soft tissues are attached either directly or indirectly. While there is no standard bony Read More…
Brow bone reduction for prominent supraorbital ridges is done in both men and women. The standard approach is from a scalp access whether that is done from a coronal or frontal hairline incision. By exposing the entire forehead and brow bones through forehead flap turn down, burring or bone flap reduction techniques can be used. Read More…
Background: The frontal sinuses are responsible for the shape of the brow bones. Men have larger frontal sinus cavities and hence more prominent brow bones. While some may think that the brow bones are solid bone they are actually just an expanded air cavity with a covering of bone that is only several millimeters thick. Read More…
Background: The prominence of the brow bones is largely a reflection of the size of the underlying frontal sinus cavities. The frontal sinus is technically composed of four pairs of paranasal sinuses which are mucosal lined and drain into the nose through the frontonasal duct. While absent after birth and the first few years thereafter, Read More…
In facial feminization surgery (FFS), forehead recontouring is an important one-third of the facial changes needed. There may be a few patients in which burring of the brow bone is sufficient to reshape the entire superior orbital rim. But most male to female brow bone reductions of any significance require the well described type III Read More…
Cis-gender females undergo brow bone reduction much less frequently than men as it would be unusual for them to have a significant brow bone protrusion. These smaller protrusions do not usually require a bone flap setback technique as the amount of reduction needed can be done by bone burring alone. If the reduction needed is Read More…
While brow bone reduction is done in both men and women, the techniques may be different based on the amount of brow bone reduction required. In my experience most men that consider and undergo reduction of their brow bone prominences do so because they are extremely large and have a dramatic impact on the perception Read More…
Brow bone reduction is a recognized facial reshaping procedure to reduce the prominence of the lower forehead. In doing so the reduction is in a reverse horizontal direction, moving the outer edge of the brow bones backward. This operation mainly effects the central part of the brow bones where the frontal sinuses reside. It may 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...