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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: There are distinct well known shape differences between the female and male forehead. While it is a broad near featureless facial area it still has gender specific characteristics. Compared to the male forehead the female forehead has a more vertical slope to it (partially because it lacks any significant brow bone prominences) and has Read More…
Background: The submental (under the chin) incision for placement of chin and custom jawline implants are a standard approach. This inferior approach offers a safer approach to avoiding injury to the mental nerve with implant placement as well as lessens the risk of infection compared to intraoral incisions. The tradeoff is that of a a Read More…
Background: Custom jawline implants provide a unique and most powerful effect on the lower face due to their wrap around designs. Extending from one jaw angle to the other they create a change to the complete inferolateral border of the lower jaw. Of the five parts of the lower jaw (symphysis, body and ramus) the Read More…
Background: Undereye hollows are a not uncommon aesthetic midface concern.They are seen in two basic types of patients. In the older patients undereye hollows occur from aging with loss of fat from underneath the lower eyelid and inferior orbital compartments. It may also be caused from a prior lower blepharoplasty where excessive fat has been Read More…
Custom designed implants are the most powerful method of aesthetic augmentation of various facial features. There are many obvious benefits to a custom designed facial implants. But one of the presumed benefits, although not an accurate one, is that one engineer a specific look or type of facial change. While specific shapes and thickness can Read More…
Background: Improving the shape of the jaw is one of the most challenging of all facial augmentations. It is.a complex bone by facial standards and is also the largest surface area in the face to augment. In addition the type of dimensional changes needed in the chin are different from what is needed in the Read More…
Background: The chin is a three-dimensional structure whose length, width and projection must be considered in any augmentation procedure. While an implant works fine for modest dimensional changes of the chin it does not work well for larger changes. This is particularly true when significant vertical lengthening is needed as this where the role of Read More…
The custom jawline implant is one of the most effective of all facial implants. By augmenting the entire inferolateral border of the lower jaw the entire shape of the lower face is changed and enhanced. Getting such a large implant into place, however, presents its own challenges. Not the least of which is getting it Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead has well known gender differences. Male foreheads have a slight backward slope, visible brow bones both medially and laterally as well as more width with potentially visible temporal lines at the sides of the forehead. These are forehead characteristics that are far more difficult to surgically create than the Read More…
The cheeks like the rest of the face is comprised of bony and soft tissue components that can be surgically modified. But what separates the cheeks from other facial areas is that the hard and soft tissue areas are not in the same anatomic area. The bony part is in the upper midface (cheekbones or 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...