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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...
The classic debate, and sometimes an actual controversy, is whether chin augmentation is best done with an implant or by moving the chin bone. While patients and surgeons often try and compare them by their level of invasiveness, that is really an irrelevant and short-sighted thought process to that decision. That discussion more likely emanates Read More…
Some men desire a more square shape to their chin implant augmentation. Standard square chin implant styles have been around for decades and have served some patients well. But like all standard implants they do not work well for everyone and may not create as much squareness as the patient desires. It is important to Read More…
While the most common chin augmentation dimension is forward or in the horizontal dimension, the most under diagnosed chin augmentation patient is the one who needs some vertical lengthening as well. Vertically elongating the chin typically means a forward and down direction of augmentation in profile (45 degrees in the side view) and not a Read More…
Chin implant `augmentation is typically viewed as a ‘simple’ operation that has a low complication rate. And for many types of modest chin augmentations needs this may be true. But I have seen hundreds of ‘simple’ chin implant patients that have become complicated through improper implant selection and placements. Many of these patients never went Read More…
Like the nose, the chin is a major component of the facial profile. Surgically more rhinoplasties are performed for aesthetic facial improvements than chin reshaping procedures. But this speaks more to the combined functional and complex aesthetic deformities caused by the nose compared to the isolated aesthetic effects of the chin which is structurally simpler Read More…
Chin augmentation is one of the most common of all facial reshaping surgeries and is usually performed by the placement of an implant. This relatively ‘simple’ procedure works as long as the augmentation needs are within what the style and size of standard implants can provide. But not all chin augmentation patients are accepting of Read More…
While chin implants were the original jaw augmentation method, the development and emergence of jaw angle implants now provides an option for the rest of the jaw as well. The combination of standard chin and jaw angle implants can be done to create a total jawline enhancement. Placed at the three ‘corners’ of the jaw, Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation has been done by a variety of materials over the years. Each biomaterial used has is own unique handling and tissue response characteristics. But fundamentally these materials come down to those with a smooth or non-smooth outer surface. Materials with a non-smooth surface are associated with varying degrees of tissue adherence and/or Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a common facial enhancement procedure that provides increased horizontal projection. This helps bring many such affected faces into better balance by lengthening the lower jaw to be more in line with the upper two-thirds of the face. While being the most common aesthetic chin deficiency, horizontal underprojection is not the only Read More…
Chin implants are the most historic of all facial implants. As a result they have been through the greatest number of design changes and resultant size availabilities. Initial introduced a button shape the biggest design advancement came in the 1990s with the introduction of extended anatomic designs. This was a logical extension of the implant’s 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...