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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: When designing a custom jawline implant there are five areas to consider for dimensional management. These include the chin, jaw angles (2) and the body area between the chin and the jaw angles. (2) While all are important in creating the overall jaw augmentation effect, the chin area often garners the most attention given Read More…
Background: Orthognathic surgery has been around for almost 75 years and has evolved in its applications. While one used exclusively when there was an existing malocclusion to realign the dentoaveolar relationships into a more centric bite relationship, its uses has expanded to even when a good occlusal interdigitation exists. (orthodontically created or not) Today bimax Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant is the most complete method of lower facial reshaping due to its 3D expansion effects. Many patients that present for such lower jaw augmentation have a prior history of more limited standard implants for initial lower facial reshaping. Most commonly it is a chin implant that has provided a positive Read More…
Background: While the most common chin procedure is augmentation a lesser number of chin shape changes are done for reduction. Besides their lower numbers chin reduction surgery is also dominated by female patients much more so than men. Chins that stick out too far, are too vertically long or are too wide are the dimensional Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a unique form of craniofacial asymmetry and its probably the best known because of its syndromic presentation from its axial twisting developmental pattern. With predominant symptom of a flat back of the head on one side (right more frequently than left), which is often the major issue, there is a series of Read More…
Background: Custom jawline implants are the most powerful aesthetic structural changer of the lower third of the face. However, while they are custom made for each patient, such custom designs can not guarantee that the patient’s desired aesthetic result will be achieved. Until there comes a time when the exact correlation between an implant design Read More…
Background: Total or complete lower jaw augmentation of any significance can really only be done by a custom wrap around jawline implant. By creating an augmentation line along the entire inferolateral bony border from one angle to the other a true 3D jaw augmentation is obtained. To compare what this type of implant can do Read More…
Background: Custom jawline implants can be made of a variety of materials each with their own advantages and disadvantages. One of these materials is porous polyethylene or Medpor. It offers a firm soft tissue adhesion to its surface to which that advantage over other materials which do not develop this strong adhesion is not clinically Read More…
Background: The male forehead has several distinct features from the projection of the brow bones inferiorly to the prominence of the temporal lines at its sides. Its largest feature, however, is the slope or angulation of the broad forehead surface. Unlike females where a more straight or close to zero angulation slope is desired, men Read More…
Background: Jaw angle augmentation has become an increasingly popular area for facial augmentation. No longer is the chin the only lower facial area that can be enhanced by onlay bone implants. Jaw angle implants have been around for three decades when they were initially introduced in solid silicone form. Despite their existence and the development 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...