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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...
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…
Buttock implants are ultrasoft solid silicone hemispherical devices. They have a role in buttock augmentation when the patient has insufficient fat for a BBL procedure or an inadequate BBL result to meet their aesthetic needs. They can be placed either inside the gluteus maximus muscle or on top of it. They are advantages with either Read More…
Background: The mid-body region for contouring can be done by a variety of surgical procedures. The most well known and commonly done are liposuction, fat transfer augmentations and buttock implants. This collection of now standard procedures can satisfy most patient’s needs for a smaller waistline, larger and more shapely buttocks and, in some cases, even Read More…
Background: Implants are the assured permanent method of buttock augmentation even though they are far less commonly performed compared to BBL surgery. (fat injections) Patients typically seek out buttock implants because they do not have adequate fat stores to harvest for BBL surgery or they have received inadequate BBL results. The present debate with buttock Read More…
Buttock augmentation is a popular and commonly performed aesthetic body contouring procedure. Because it can be done by multiple different methods, it is probably best thought of as a menu of treatment option as the name alone does not convey which technique or techniques is being used. Enhancing the shape of the buttocks is primarily Read More…
Buttock augmentation has evolved over the last two decades in two different volumetric treatment approaches. Injectable fat grafting has become the most common method of buttock augmentation due to the combined benefits of reductive body contouring and gluteal enlargement. Concurrently, buttock implant techniques have evolved with intramuscular pocket locations and improved implant materials and sizes Read More…
The intergluteal incision is the most commonly used approach for the placement of buttock implants. As long as the incision does not extend up higher than the most vertical level of the buttock cleft it remains well hidden. While the intergluteal incision is not vertically excessive (usually no longer than 7 cms) it is in 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...