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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 eyelids provide aesthetically important shape to the eye area and has a greater influence on the appearance of this part of the face than the eyeball itself. Their horizontal coverage of the eyeball creates how much of the eyeball is seen particularly scleral show. The amount of scleral show determines how wide open the Read More…
Background: The lower third of the face in men is a very important aesthetic feature. It defines both a more sculpted facial shape but is well known to crate a more masculine appearance. The historic and obvious approach to creating a more masculine face is chin augmentation. While effective it is a limited approach to Read More…
Background: The two most common midfacial aesthetic deficiencies are undereye hollows and lack of cheek projection. Standard implants have been available for years to to treat these aesthetic midfacial concerns but they often are not adequate. Tear trough implants can improve some undereye deficiencies but it does not provide a complete infraorbital rim augmentation effect. Read More…
One of the best custom facial implants, despite being one of the smallest, is the IOM or infraorbital rim implant. It is also one of the most underutilized and unrecognized midface implants. While there are standard cheek as well as tear trough implants for the upper midface, the IOM implant is unique in its aesthetic Read More…
Background: For augmenting the lower face there are a wide variety of procedures that are available to do so. From the non-surgical injectable fillers to custom jawline implants there is a spectrum of options that differ in both their aesthetic results and their degree of invasiveness. While the custom jawline implant is the complete and Read More…
A custom jawline implant offers a 3D augmentation effect on the lower face. Since it is a wrap around implant, the largest aesthetic implant that can be placed on the face, its covers the entire inferolaterakl surface area of the lower jaw. In essence it is like placing a new jaw on top of the Read More…
Background: Jaw augmentation in various forms is a commonly requested procedure amongst men and women. Injectable fillers provide a temporary trial for jaw augmentation but besides the lack of permanency it can take a lot of injection volume to achieve a complete jaw augmentation effect. Standard implants (chin and jaw angles) do well for spot Read More…
Background: One of the main aesthetic proportions involved in facial beauty is that of the facial thirds. This is based on the concept that the face is divided into horizontal thirds. The upper third is from the hairline to the glabellar region between the eyebrows, the middle third is from the glabella to the base Read More…
Background: There are numerous facial feature differences between men and women which can be separated by anatomic site. The foreheads eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin, jawline and lips all have specific gender specific shapes. The largest of these anatomic areas by surface area is the forehead which occupies more than a third of the total Read More…
Background: One of the most common facial fractures is that of the cheekbone or malar bones. Anatomically this is known as the ZMC or zygomaticomaxillary complex, a name that comes from the four bony legs that support the projection of the cheek bone…the inferior posterior maxillary buttress, the lateral zygomatic arch, the superior lateral orbital 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...