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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...
I was just at the 40th annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Goteborg Sweden as a feature speaker where I met a Swedish surgeon Dr. Igor Niecjajev who has practiced his entire career in Stockholm. He introduced me to a paper he had written on a procedure that I perform Read More…
Background: Chin reduction understandably is the antithesis to chin augmentation. But suffice it to say that a chin reduction is technically harder than a chin augmentation when considering the bone and soft tissue elements involved and isn fraught with its own unique set of challenges. The first one of these is the soft tissue chin Read More…
Background: Large chins are more of an aesthetic problem in women than in men as one might expect. As a result, chin reduction is most commonly performed in females. Aside from V-line jaw reduction surgery, which is its own aesthetic entity and does involve some degrees of reductive chin reshaping, female macrogenia reductions are isolated Read More…
Background: The chin implant is viewed as a simple surgery with no significant anatomic issues for its placement. But this often viewed concept is inaccurate as it fails to appreciate that an important element of making the implant pocket is release of some or all of the osteoligamentous attachments in making the suboperosteal pocket. If Read More…
Background: The large chin (macrogenia) can be caused by excessive bone, soft tissue or both. A unique form of congenital macrogenia, most commonly seen in females, is a pure soft tissue excess known as chin pad hypertyrophy. Often called a fleshy chin the size of the overlying soft tissue is disproportionately larger than that of Read More…
Background: Excessive chin projection is a far more frequent aesthetic concern in women than in men.This is because men can tolerate a larger chin projection which is associated with a more masculine appearance. But there is a point where the chin projection can become excessive or hypermasculine. While that determination is ultimately up to the Read More…
Background: While the chin bone draws a lot of aesthetic attention the soft tissue that covers it is often overlooked. This soft tissue coverage, known as the chin pad, is a combination of skin, fibrofatty tissue and muscle. It starts superiorly at the labiomental fold and ends inferiorly on the underside of the chin at Read More…
Background: The chin is a unique facial structure being a solitary projection that is enveloped by a tight soft tissue chin pad. The chin pad is composed of periosteum, muscle, fat and skin that is adherent around the bone. Like all structural manipulations anywhere on the face how the soft tissue drapes over it does Read More…
Background: As a projecting solitary structure, the chin has a three dimensional component to it. By far the most common type of chin dimensional change requested by patients is augmentative in nature, usually in the horizontal direction. Reductive chin changes is far less commonly requested and, as a result, surgeon experience in doing so is Read More…
The most common bony chin procedure performed, both historically and currently, is the sliding genioplasty. Its most recognized dimensional change is implied in its name, sliding forward, or horizontal augmentation. When used to increase the height of the chin it is known as a vertical lengthening bony genioplasty. But when used to change the width 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...