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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 sliding genioplasty is an autologous form of chin augmentation that has its own distinct advantages. Its effect is based on the position of the natural bone, is stable long term and and has little risk of perioperative infection and no long term infection risks. But it is an imperfect chin augmentation procedure in that Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a well known autologous form of chin augmentation. It is not as commonly performed as chin implants as it is a more invasive and has less controlled dimensional changes. But for the patient who wishes to avoid an implant it is the only other option an d has not long Read More…
Background: The chin as a projecting facial structure has three dimensions. Of these dimensions horizontal projection is the most commonly seen and pursued by patients. Almost every chin implant is based on producing pure horizontal augmentation. The sliding bony genioplasty has fixation plates of various lengths that similarly are designed for increasing horizontal projection. A Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is an historic autologous chin augmentation procedure that has a long history. And while it is true that the down fractured bone is moved outward it really isn’t a sliding procedure anymore and hasn’t been for over almost 40 years. Originally the cut bone segment was slid forward along the osteotomy Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is one of the most well known of all the facial bone osteotomies. It is a unique lower facial osteotomy because it has no functional impact on jaw movement. The chin is a pure aesthetic aspect of the lower jaw that is not responsible for any biomechanical load transfer. It is Read More…
Augmenting the chin with a sliding genioplasty is an autologous approach that has its distinct advantages. But when it comes to picking what the dimensional bony changes should be, particularly in the horizontal direction, it is not an exact science and is fraught with some of the same potential uncertainties as choosing the size of Read More…
When significant lengthening of the chin is needed the opening wedge bony genioplasty is the best procedure to do so. In this procedure the chin bone is cut with a horizontal osteotomy and down fractured. The desired vertical lengthening is then set by the application of a fixation plate c reating a bony gap between Read More…
Background: The vertical length of the female face extends from the frontal hairline (trichion ) down to the bottom of the chin. (pogonion) It is aesthetically divided in thirds which are ideally proportionate. From a surgical manipulation standpoint the facial thirds can be thought of as the forehead, nose-upper lip and chin as all of Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is the autologous form of aesthetic chin augmentation. Even though it is a bone procedure it is subject to the same aesthetic issues as any chin implant. Patients can have aesthetic postoperative concerns about the amount of forward projection/vertical length or width as well as asymmetry issues. And just because it is Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a general term that encompasses a variety of different techniques to do so. The two commonly used methods are an implant and an osteotomy. A wide variety of implant materials, styles and sizes are available to create almost every type of desired chin augmentation effect. For very significant chin augmentations beyond 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...