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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...
When fat injections are not an option for buttock augmentation, or have not been successful, implants are the sole remaining treatment option. When choosing buttock implants there are three fundamental decisions a patient has to make, implant size, implant shape (style) and tissue pocket location. While pocket location and implant size have a somewhat fixed Read More…
The intergluteal cleft, more commonly known as the ‘crack’, is the attached skin that forms a groove between the two buttocks. It is very similar to the breasts with the attached skin to the sternum forming a cleavage line in the chest between the breasts. The interglueal cleft is approximately 9 to 11 cms long Read More…
Buttock implants are the alternative procedure to the Brazilian Butt Lift. (buttock augmentation by fat injections) When one doesn’t have enough fat for injection or has ‘failed’ a fat injection procedure, implants are the remaining option for buttock augmentation. Once having a more checkered clinical history with a high rate of complications, buttock implants have Read More…
Buttock implants are the alternative to fat grafting for buttock augmentation. Their placement is a choice between putting the implant on top of the muscle or inside the gluteus maximus muscle. Because it is an easier tissue plane to develop and a more direct approach to implant placement, on top of the muscle or subfascial Read More…
Background: Implants are the alternative to fat grafting to the buttocks (Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL) when the patient either does not have enough fat to harvest or has had a failed BBL procedure. When placing buttock implants the decisions to be made are pocket location and implant size…although the former controls the latter. Meaning Read More…
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…
Background: Buttock implants are the lone remaining option after fat injections for buttock augmentation. If one has enough fat, or even if it may be marginal, I advise patients to pursue autologous fat injections first because it is both natural and has not long-term side effects from the graft itself. But some patients are too 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…
Implants are the treatment option for buttock augmentation when either fat grafting has failed or there are insufficient fat donor sites to adequately do the procedure. Even though buttock implants offer an assured volume, fat grafting should be considered first if there us adequate fat to harvest. Very similar to breast implants, buttock implants have 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...