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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...
Buttock implants have been used in aesthetic surgery for over forty years. But unlike breast implants, where extensive clinical data has been gathered and analyzed, the same can not be said for buttock implants. One of the most important issues for any implant in the body is pocket location. For buttock implants the two pocket Read More…
Buttock augmentation continues to grow in popularity and is done most frequently by fat injections. (Brazilian butt lift) But not everyone has enough fat to harvest for a successful autologous buttock augmentation and not every fat-injected buttock ends up with the patient’s desired volume. As a result, the use of buttock implants has also grown Read More…
Aesthetic buttock surgery has evolved over the past four decades into a wide variety of reshaping procedures available today. Historically only excisional procedures for removing excess tissue at the top or bottom of the buttocks existed. Implants became available in the 1990s but they remained used in the U.S by only a handful of patients. Read More…
Buttock augmentation by injectable fat grafting, also known as the Brazilian butt Lift, is one of the most sought after body contouring procedures in the United States and in many other countries as well. It rivals in number of procedures performed that of more traditional body plastic surgery procedures such as breast augmentation and tummy Read More…
Buttock augmentation by injection fat grafting, known by the urban term of Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL, has been the fastest growing body contouring procedure in the past decade. Because it is ‘fat recycling’ procedure offers the dual benefit of reduction of undesired body contours by the liposuction harvest and the increase in buttock size Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is most commonly and appropriately done by fat transfer. (BBL) But not every buttock augmentation patient has the needed amount of fat to do a successful procedure nor does fat always survive in a predictable manner. For the thin patient with little fat, buttock implants are the only alternative treatment option. For Read More…
While the most common form of buttock augmentation today is fat grafting (Brazilian Butt Lift surgery or BBL), buttock implants still have a role to play. They are the only other method of surgical buttock augmentation for those patients who do not have enough fat to harvest for a BBL or have failed previous BBL Read More…
Buttock augmentation is most commonly done using fat injections. Known by the term, Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL for short, large volume fat injections can be done to increase buttock size over a broad surface area. While limited by how much fat the patient has to harvest and how much of that injected fat will Read More…
Like implants placed anywhere on the body, buttock implants can also have complications. When one compares the two methods of buttock augmentation, fat injection vs implants, it is no surprise that the placement of an implant is associated with a higher rate of potential complications. But for those women and men who have inadequate fat Read More…
Background: Buttock implants are the alternative to the more popular BBL (Brazilian Butt Lift) procedure which uses fat injections to create the augmentation effect. The use of fat for buttock augmentation is preferred and should always be the first consideration as it is a natural material and has a very low risk of complications. But 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...