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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: Cheek implants can have variable locations of placement over the cheek or zygomatic bone. But in many cases the placement of cheek implants will have their anterior or inferior located onto portions of the maxilla. Many times this is onto the thicker bone of the posterior maxillary buttresses and less frequently onto the thinner Read More…
Background: One of the determinants of an aesthetic face is good facial proportions. The most basic and well known of proportionate relationships is the facial thirds. In this assessment the face is divided into horizontal thirds. The upper 1//3s is from the hairline to the glabella, the middle 1/3is from the glabella to the subnasal Read More…
Chin augmentation is a common aesthetic request for lower third of the face enhancement. Most chin augmentation patients are seeking horizontal augmentation as the primary change which is best appreciated in the profile view. But the chin is a 3D structure due to being a solitary projecting structure which has other dimensional considerations as well. Read More…
While injectable fillers were initially not intended to be a facial bone augmentation method, it is now commonly done. The development of injectable fillers that have higher viscosities with stronger soft tissue displacements effects have led to their use for chin, jawline, cheek, midface and brow bone augmentations. Many of these fillers have longer lasting Read More…
Common aesthetic deformities of the lower eyelid include tear troughs, undereye hollows and orbitomalat grooves. While these all occur from age-related periorbital changes due to soft tissue atrophy and tissue laxity, when they are seen in young patients they are more likely a function of a bony deficiency. Specifically an infraorbital-malar deficiency the extent of Read More…
Background: Permanent aesthetic jaw augmentation can be done using either standard or custom designed implants. The use of standard chin and jaw angle implants has been around for over three decades and they have the advantages of lower cost and off-the-shelf availability for more immediate surgery. Their disadvantages are their aesthetic limitations with preset implant Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries are common and most are relatively modest in their effects. But the most significant facial asymmetries of a known cause is that of hemifacial microsomia. Due to abnormal development of the associated brachial arches, the lower jaw and ear in particular are severely affected. Major parts of the ear and lower jaw Read More…
Background: The most common structural augmentative procedure of the lower face is chin augmentation. Whether it is done with a sliding genioplasty the front end of the lower jaw bone is moved forward. While effective for this aesthetic purpose, a sliding geniplasty alters the natural shape of this part of the lower jaw. The two Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the upper (forehead-brow bone) and lower (chin-jawline) third of the face have well known techniques, how to do so for the middle third of the face is less clear. What anatomically separates the middle third of the face for the upper and lower face is that is has a major concave component Read More…
Background: While fat injections and synthetic fillers are the most common methods of cheek augmentation, implants still have a useful role to play. But when cheek implants have been placed previously and the patient desires additional volumetric enhancement later, the question becomes what is the best method to do so. The answer to that question 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...