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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...
Creating the high cheekbone look using an implant currently requires a special design to do so. Such a look is based on the natural shape and convexity of the complete zygomatic bone which includes both its main body as well as posterior arch component. There are no standard cheek implants that have yet been designed Read More…
Background: In the effort to create a more defined face on the younger patient, the combination of skeletal augmentation and soft tissue reduction remains the main efforts to do so. While there are different ways to consider augmenting the facial bones, the definitive, most powerful and long-lasting are implants that push the soft tissues off Read More…
Cheek implants have been around for decades gong back to the 1970s. Their styles have evolved into malar, submalar and combined malar-submalar (malar shell) designs. They can be used in the younger patient for aesthetic cheek augmentation as well as in the older patients to create a form of a midface lift and voluminization effect. Read More…
Background: The concept of cheek implant augmentation has variable aesthetic meanings to different patients. Depending upon gender, ethnicity and one’s natural skeletal anatomy, cheek augmentation can not be a standard type of procedure where one general implant style fulfills all patient’s needs. Despite the numerous styles of cheek implant’s that are available today, they all Read More…
The concept of cheek augmentation, regardless of the method used, is really referring to an external facial contour zone. While it is true that it largely refers to augmenting the bone that lies underneath it (or the soft tissue that lies above the bone when fillers or fat is used), this is not always exclusively Read More…
Cheek augmentation is a common facial reshaping surgery that can be done by a variety of different methods. Temporary synthetic injectable fillers, fat injections and bone-based implants are available midface augmentation techniques, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Surgeons may have their preferences but it is never such that one cheek augmentation methods works Read More…
Cheek implants are the one assured permanent method of midfacial structural enhancement. They have been available for clinical use for almost forty (40) years and numerous styles and sizes are available which has evolved over the years. While the biggest fear with cheek implants like any facial implant is infection, this is not the most Read More…
As an assured method of cheek augmentation, implants have been around for over three decades. While current cheek implant styles remain relevant for many patients, contemporary cheek and midface looks have changed. To address these evolving aesthetic trends, newer designs for cheek implants need to be used. More younger patients are requesting the so called Read More…
Background: Facial lipoatrophy is a well known condition where extensive fat is lost in the face. It is seen primarily in the loss of the large buccal fat pad with subsequent concavities developing under the cheekbones and in the temples. While it occurs all over the subcutaneous layer of the face, which contributes to the Read More…
Background: While cheek implants are well known and done, how they actually work is often not appreciated. By being placed through an intraoral subperiosteal approach (most common insertion technique used) it is necessary to release the zygomatic ligaments and overlying soft tissues over and around he cheekbones. Once the implant is placed it acts like 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...