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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 buccal fat is most commonly known as an aesthetic procedure for its removal to thin out the cheek areas. In performing this procedure an important piece of its anatomy becomes relevant….its vascular blood supply. Along the sides and on the back end of the fat pad as it is extracted its vascular pedicle can Read More…
Facial aging is associated with the development of soft tissue laxities and descent. This appears on the face in a variety of ways of which one is the most common and recognized as the development of jowls. As jowls develop the face changes shape often from a heart-shaped to a more square shape in women. Read More…
Background: The buccal lipectomy is a well known aesthetic defatting procedure to reduce the fullness of the cheeks. While it has a long surgical history it only more recently has become widely popular amongst surgeons and patients alike. Once shunned because of the risk of premature aging effects or inducing an undesired facial lipoatrophic appearance, Read More…
The buccal fat pad is most recognized for its role in facial reshaping surgery. Through an intraoral buccal lipectomy extraction, the main body of the buccal fat pad is removed causing a reduction in external cheek fullness. Such aesthetic procedures always produce impressive lobular fat specimens with volumes between 3 to 6ccs. But this unique Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial reshaping procedure to help slim the cheek area. This area of facial fat removal is unique because it does not require liposuction to do so. In fact it is the only facial and body area where the defatting is done by direct excision rather than vacuum aspiration Read More…
Background: The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial defatting/cheek slimming procedure. Being the largest encapsulated reservoir of fat in the face, its surgical removal is always impressive given the sheer volume of fat removed. Most buccal fat pads average in the 3ccs range. Regardless of the facial slimming effect, most buccal fat pads are Read More…
The buccal lipectomy procedure has been around for a long time but has undergone a renewed interest more recently. While impugned as a procedure that should never be performed, it has become recognized that it does have role in facial reshaping surgery to help reduce midfacial fullness in properly selected patients. Since it is an Read More…
Changing the shape of the face is largely done by altering the bony framework that supports it. Whether it be by augmentation or reduction methods, facial reshaping surgery modifies the structural support of the face onto which the soft tissues drape over and around. There are soft tissue facial reshaping procedures as well which, beyond Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known cheek reductive contouring procedure. For those patients with fuller cheeks and rounder faces, it is an obvious target to create some facial slimming effects. Done through several intraoral incisional options, it is easy to access underneath the buccinator muscle. What can be removed can be impressive but, given Read More…
Background: In the effort to create a more defined face on the younger patient, the combination of skeletal augmentation and soft tissue reduction remains the main efforts to do so. While there are different ways to consider augmenting the facial bones, the definitive, most powerful and long-lasting are implants that push the soft tissues off 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...