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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 a variety of off-the-shelf cheek implants are available, none of them provide any guidance about gender specificity. This is unfortunate, as like all facial augmentations, few are non-gender specific or non-binary in nature. Yet this is how most surgeons approach cheek augmentation… locked into choosing whatever is in the catalog believing or hoping that Read More…
Cheek implants are a common form of facial augmentation but there are numerous anatomic misconceptions about them. The cheeks are not a pure bone or soft tissue structure. Rather it is an aesthetic term myjhayt connotes a midfacial area. While there is underlying bony support to the overlying cheek region called the zygoma or cheekbone, Read More…
Background: The most common form of cheek augmentation today is with the use of synthetic fillers. While fillers offer an immediate and non-surgical result their effects are not permanent. Fat is also an injectable option but its results can similarly not be permanent. Cheek implants provide a permanent augmentation effect and can create a wide Read More…
Background: While cheek implant augmentation has been performed for decades, the vast majority of satisfied patients are typically female. Standard cheek implants as we known them today have largely gone unchanged in their designs for the past three decades. While not often obvious cheek implant designs have been made for women, unknowingly by the manufacturers, Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial defatting/thinning procedure. While the total volume of the fat pads is not large (3 to 4ccs per side), it is unique fat in that it is a highly concentrated solid collection of adipose cells.The exact biologic behavior of this fat has never been fully understood as its Read More…
Background: Cheek implants are the most common surgical method of midface augmentation. But determining what the shape and amount that the cheek augmentation should be for any particular patient is far from an exact science. Unlike chin implants, in which linear assessment and computer imaging can really help define what the patient wants to achieve, Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the cheeks has been done almost as long as that of the chin. Historically done with implants and far more commonly today with synthetic fillers and fat. Besides the evolving methods to create a cheek augmentation effect, the aesthetic trends towards the desired cheek augmentation effect have also changed. For most women Read More…
Getting more defined cheekbones in either men or women can be challenging. In some patients they have decent cheekbone structure but their face is too full to show them well. In these cases facial defatting (buccal lipectomies, perioral liposuction) is often done to reduce the fullness below the cheekbones. In others they may have a Read More…
The cheek area is one of the most common types of facial augmentation procedures. While long ago once only achievable with implants, many more cheek augmentations are performed today by less invasive means with injectable fillers and fat. They offer a cheek augmentation effect with minimal recovery and generally a very low chance of any Read More…
Ogee is defined generally as a curve. It has been given various descriptions such as an extended S, serpentine or having a sigmoid shape. In particular it is a double curve in which a combination of two semicircular shapes meet centrally in an inverse relationship. The arc of these semicircular shapes can vary widely. When 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...