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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...
One form of facial reshaping is reduction for a slimmer, narrow or overall smaller face. Reductive facial reshaping procedures include bony operations such as cheek and jaw reduction. While these bony reductions are done intraorally, their effects are ultimately going to be seen based on how well the soft tissues shrink around the smaller bone Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is the most well known soft tissue cheek reduction procedure. While it can provide effective reduction of fuller cheeks, the extent of its effect is frequently misunderstood or overstated. (leading to unfulfilled patient expectations) The effect of the buccal lipectomy is best understood by where it is positioned in the midface. Sandwiched Read More…
The reduction of almost any facial bone is a lot more challenging than augmenting it. Unlike augmentation which pushes out the overlying soft tissue, eliminating any concern about adverse soft tissue effects, facial bone reductions always runs the risk of soft tissue laxity/sagging. In addition, while facial bone augmentations are achieved by a smooth implant Read More…
Soft tissue cheek reduction is most commonly associated with the well known buccal lipectomy procedure. Through an intraoral incision in the maxillary vestibule, the encapsulated buccal fat pas is accessed by passing through the upper fibers of the buccinator muscle. Once inside its capsule, the main body of the buccal fat pad is extracted after Read More…
Background: Decreasing the projection of wide cheekbones can be done effectively by only one procedure, cheekbone reduction osteotomies. This well known procedure accomplishes this width reduction by a combination of anterior and posterior osteotomies The anterior osteotomy is done through an intraoral incision through the zygomatic body, the largest section of the cheekbone. The posterior Read More…
Excessively wide cheekbones are a not uncommon facial feature that, although often mainly associated with Asian faces, can occur in all ethnicities. The concept of how wide cheekbones have to be to be considered excessive is an individual one. But anatomically they almost all share a significant or undesired convexity to the anterior portion of Read More…
Classic cheekbone reduction surgery is done by one cuts at the front and back end not the zygomatic bone. While the front bone cut through the zygomatic body is one intraorally, the back bone cut through the end of the zygomatic arch is done externally. This provides the most direct approach to the bone through Read More…
Cheekbone reduction surgery is accomplished by a combination of a front and back osteotomy. (bone cut) The front osteotomy is performed intraorally and cuts through the main body of the cheekbone. The back osteotomy is performed through a skin incision and cuts through the end of the smaller zygomatic arch. The two osteotomies work in Read More…
Background: The shape of the cheek is primarily controlled by the projection of the zygomatic body and the convexity of the zygomatic arch behind it. Given the length and potential variability of these combined zygomatic bone shapes, there is ample opportunity for one cheek to be different from the other. The degree of convexity or Read More…
The frontal or temporal branch of the facial nerve courses in front of the ear on its way to the forehead. In so doing it starts deep as it exits from the stylomastoid foramen at the base of the skull and becomes more superficial on its way superiorly through the upper edge of the parotid 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...