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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: Aging effects the periorbital region through changes in the eyelids as well as the brows. Descent of the brows is a common feature of it but has aesthetic gender differences. Because men have a naturally lower and non-arched brow, some degree of brow sagging is much better tolerated in men than women. Unlike women, Read More…
Correction/repositioning of sagging brows is done by well known browlift procedures. The vast majority of browlift surgeries are done in women with access to do the procedure coming from above in and behind the frontal hairline. The three different female browlift techniques (coronal, pretrichial and endoscopic) are chosen based on forehead skin length and the Read More…
The most common surgical treatment today for sagging brows is the endoscopic browlift. As opposed to browlifts that involve long incisions and remove forehead or scalp tissue to create the lifting effect, the endoscopic technique uses minimal incisions and removes no tissue. It achieves a browlifting effect through a deep subperiosteal brow tissue release Read More…
Background: Aging around the eyes is the earliest and most visible signs of facial aging. Periorbital aging affects both the upper and lower eyelids as well as the brows that sit above them. Unless the eyelids which develop excessive skin, the eyebrows age by ‘falling down’, changing their position on the brow bone and losing Read More…
One of the signs of periorbital aging, amongst many, is the descent of the outer aspect or tail of the eyebrow. This is almost always more of an aesthetic issue in women than it is in men. For some women this may be the only aspect of brow descent that is troubling. Botox injections are Read More…
Background: Like the rest of the face the brows and forehead tissues do fall or go south with age. Besides the horizontal forehead lines and vertical glabellar wrinkles, the lowering of the brows is the most noticeable feature of aging of the upper third of the face. Sagging of the brows, as defined by where Read More…
Background: Skull implants are used today to treat a variety of aesthetic head shape concerns and deformities. While many think of skull implants of filling in craniotomy or other traumatic skull defects, aesthetic skull implants are placed in a subperiosteal onlay fashion to build out usually normal thickness skull bone areas. Skull implants placed in Read More…
The upper third of the face, which is composed of the skin bearing forehead and the hair bearing brows, is major aesthetic unit of the face. Like the rest of the face below it, it is equally exposed to changes caused by aging such as the development of horizontal wrinkles and a lowering of the Read More…
Background: There are different types of browlifts that are done to help rejuvenate an aging eye area. The historic coronal browlift is done to lift up the entire brow arch through a long scalp incision way behind the hairline. An endoscopic browlift is performed using an endoscope through several small incisions just behind the hairline. Read More…
Numerous browlift procedures exist to lift sagging brows and help rejuvenate an aging periorbital look. The success of most browlifts are based on a tissue release and a superior elevation of the sagging brows. Most techniques employ some form of fixation to the skull bone to hold the lifted forehead tissues as they heal. These 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...