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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...
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…
Background: Since chin reduction is not as commonly requested or performed as chin augmentation the techniques to do so are not often well understood. In the traditional macrogenia female, the reflex operation for most plastic surgeons is an intraoral burring chin reduction technique. It is a reflex operation because the first thought is in how Read More…
Background: Chin reduction is a very different operation than chin augmentation. Expansion of a projecting structure is far easier to successfully accomplish than a reduction of it. The best illustration of this difference is the corollary of aesthetic breast surgery. The use of a breast implant expands the overlying soft tissues and soft tissue excess Read More…
Background: The projecting chin is a three dimensional structure that has both horizontal projection, vertical height and transverse width to it. But within these bony dimensions on both its outer and inner surfaces are small discrete areas of topographic features. Many of these small bony features are known as fossa and tubercles which means small Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin augmentation procedure that achieves its effect without an implant. By moving the bony front end of the lower jaw the soft tissue chin pad is pushed forward increasing the projection of the lower face. While the sliding genioplasty has virtually none of the potential complications of an Read More…
Background: The effect of any chin implant is a function of its shape, size and position on the bone. Either one can be a cause of ‘macrogenia’, the perception that the projection of the chin is excessive. The most frequent treatment for an implant-induced macrogenia is to simply replace it which is what is almost Read More…
Background: The shape of the chin in all views is a combination of the the bone and the enveloping soft tissue chin pad. Typically there is a confluent appearance of the chin as the soft tissue chin pad is tightly adherent to the bone through ligamentous and muscular attachments. But the there are certain clinical Read More…
Background: The shape of he chin is typically perceived in how it is seen from different angles…in the static non-smiling position. But it can also present aesthetic abnormalities when one is smiling from a dynamic standpoint. One very specific dynamic chin shape is soft tissue chin pad ptosis. Ptosis of the chin is typically associated 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...