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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 shape of the chin is a classic gender-defining facial feature. While the chin has numerous dimensional aspects to it, the frontal view of it is the most gender specific dimension. Broader and more square chin shapes are identified as masculine while a slender and more tapered chin shape would be seen as more feminine. Read More…
Making the face more slender or narrow consists of a variety of well known bone reshaping procedures that have origin in Asian facial reshaping. For the lower face V-line surgery consists of jaw angle reduction combined with a chin reduction osteotomy. Most commonly the chin osteotomy is a T-shape, removing bone in a vertical central Read More…
Background: Custom designed facial implants provide a great degree of facial change. The larger surface areas of custom implants and preoperative control of their shape and dimensions allows for a major change in facial shape if desired. To do so augmentation of the midface line (infraorbital-malar) and entire jawline are often done together as Read More…
A sliding genioplasty is a well known chin augmentation procedure whose effects at increasing the projection of the lower face are well known. By bringing the mandibular symphysis forward not only is the chin bone enhanced but the neck angle is improved with the skeletal lengthening of the jawline above it. But there are other Read More…
Background: A well defined jawline is a desirous lower facial feature for both men and women. Such a look is usually when there is a smooth connection between the chin in the front and the jaw angles in the back. This also means that both the chin and jaw angle points have a visible presence Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is the most well known bony reshaping procedure of the chin. It gets its name because of how it was historically described and fixed. An obliquely horizontal bone cut is made at an angle that stays below the anterior tooth roots and the mental nerve foramen. The downfractured chin bone segment was Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin procedure that has both a long history and a variety of uses. In its classic form it is a horizontal chin advancement procedure by a forward repositioning of the mandibular symphysis bone. With the advent of plate and screw fixation, the procedure has been expanded to Read More…
Background: A female chin shape has a more rounded or a tapered look. The male chin can be also be rounded but a square shape is more gender specific and often desired. In facial feminization surgery changing the shape of the lower third of the face can be done by chin reshaping alone or combined Read More…
There are many types of dimensional changes that can be done to the bony chin. From an osteotomy standpoint, the most common bony movement is horizontal of the down fractured segment with the well known sliding genioplasty procedure. This is effective at not only moving the bone but also has the benefit of moving the Read More…
Chin augmentation is traditionally thought as a choice between a chin implant and a sliding genioplasty. While seen as the two procedure choices for chin reshaping they are not really interchangeable. Besides the difference between synthetically augmenting the bone vs actually cutting and moving the bone, they can achieve different dimensional chin changes. The one 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...