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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...
Background: Ptosis or structural sagging is known to affect many body areas, most commonly that of the breasts for which a classification scheme has been devised for it to help with treatment strategies for its correction. But sagging also affects the buttocks and is fairly well recognized. It most commonly develops as a result of Read More…
Background: Buttock sagging, more formally known as buttock ptosis, occurs for a variety of reasons. Large amounts of weight loss is one well known cause of the lower buttocks to bottom out with volume deflation and the creation of a relative skin excess. Aging is another common cause and is particularly prone to occur in Read More…
Background: The buttocks, like any other bodily structure, is subject to the changes of aging, use and gravity. Buttocks lose volume and develop sagging with age and more prominently with large amounts of weight loss. This flattening effect may occur in isolation but often involves the infragluteal fold as well. Buttock tissue can fall over Read More…
Background: Aesthetic buttock deformities consist of two types of undesired structural changes. Inadequate volume is the far more recognized buttock problem which can occur from either inadequate natural development (or natural development that one sees an inadequate) or from volume loss due to aging or weight loss. The other is tissue sag over the infragluteal Read More…
Background: The shape of the buttocks can take on many different forms. The buttocks have three different sections, the upper buttock, the mid buttock, and the lower buttock. Each buttock section has its own distinct shape. What separates the lower buttocks from the other two sections is the infragluteal fold. This fold makes a usually Read More…
There are numerous strategies to improving the shape of the buttocks of which the most popular is the Brazilian Butt Lift. (BBL) While this buttock augmentation method is called a lift, it really does not lift the buttocks at all. It fills out the buttocks to make it bigger or more round but is not Read More…
Buttock reshaping through fat injections or implants has surged in popularity in the past decade. The vast majority of these buttock procedures, to the level of probably 99% of them, are done in women. There may be a lot of cultural and beauty standards for this gender bias but there may also be some age-related Read More…
Background: There are numerous features of a shapely buttocks. Short of a nipple-areolar complex, the buttocks share many of the same physical components of the female breast. Ideally it is an identifiable mound that projects outward away from the lower back and upper posterior thigh. While the upper pole is a smooth sloping transition from the Read More…
Background: Buttock enhancement surgery has become a primary method of body contouring plastic surgery. Having a shapely and fuller buttocks has taken on great signficance for a more attractive body form. The buttocks for some now rivals what has been the breasts for many in the past. While most of the notoriety belongs to the Read More…
Background: Buttock enhancement has become a popular contemporary procedure, offering improvements to a body part that historically has been thought of as having few choices. People have numerous aesthetic buttock concerns including size, shape and tone/firmness issues. Buttock augmentation with fat injections (aka Brazilian Butt Lift) is most well known today as it has become Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...