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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 major change in buttock implants over the past two decades is improvements in the implant’s durometer and better soft tissue coverage of the implants. Buttock implants used to be made of a more stiffer silicone durometer which gave them a hard and unnatural feel. That has been improved by softer more gel-like durometers which Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is generally a procedure than is done much more frequently in women. Between synthetic fillers, BBL fat injections and implants the female patient probably comprises 95% to 98% of the buttock augmentation population. It is not that men don’t undergo buttock augmentation but the buttocks is less of a signifier ant nconcern Read More…
Background: The most common form of body reshaping surgery today is probably BBL or Brazilian Butt Lift surgery. Decades ago it was breast augmentation and a tummy tuck which was often done on older women usually past the child bearing years. (aka Mommy makeover) The difference in BBL surgery from traditional Mommy Makeovers is that Read More…
Background: The most common and successful method of buttock augmentation is injectable fat grafting. Known more commonly as BBL surgery this procedure produces a dual aesthetic benefit from the harvest for the fat (reduction) to the buttock injection site. (augmentation) Because of the success of this procedure as well as being an autologous one, I Read More…
Background: BBL surgery is well known around the world and is a purely autologous approach to changing the size of the buttocks. It is a fat redistribution approach and these effects are synergestic…a smaller waistline make the buttocks look bigger and vice versa. Such BBL surgery is dependent on how much fat one has to Read More…
Buttock implants have a role to play in buttock augmentation for those patients either are not good candidates for BBL surgery or have less than desired BBK results. Unlike injecting large amounts of fat in BBL, implant placement in the buttock tissues is far more restrictive. When patients request large buttock augmentation results using implants, Read More…
While buttock implants will never be used at the same frequency as that of fat injections (BBL surgery) for buttock augmentation, they do play a useful role in this form of body contouring surgery. Their role is when inadequate fat is available for BBL surgery and when fat injections have proven inadequate for the desired Read More…
Background: Buttock implants can be placed either in the subfascial, intramuscular or submuscular location. Each pocket location has its advantages and disadvantages. While the intra- and submuscular pocket locations have many advantages their one disadvantage is the size of implant that can be placed. As a general rule, implant sizes of 400ccs or less can Read More…
Background: While fat injections is the most popular form of buttock augmentation (BBL surgery) it is not the only one. When inadequate fat reserves exist for harvest or prior fat injections have had inadequate survival buttock implants are the alternative treatment. While once little used with a high rate of complications buttock implants have evolved Read More…
Background: While the vast majority of buttock augmentations are done using an autologous fat injection technique, implants still have a valuable role to play in buttock augmentation/reshaping efforts. One would think that fat injections would have relegated implants to a very diminished role but the exact opposite is true. Fat injections have created an ever 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...