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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: A well defined jawline, particularly for a male, is one of the most important facial features. There are many dimensional aspects to what constitutes a well defined jawline but in the end it is a more prominent chin and jaw angle appearance. What differentiates the enhanced jawline is the magnitude of these corner projections Read More…
Background: There are limited options for autologous or bony jaw augmentation methods. The most well known and used is the sliding genioplasty but this is limited to the chin. Lesser known is the chin wing osteotomy, touted as a complete jaw augmentation method but it is limited by the bone cuts to the anterior 2/3s Read More…
The definitive aesthetic jaw augmentation method is the custom jawline implant. Standard chin and jaw angles have their role in enhancing the shape of the lower face but they should be perceived as more corner enhancements of the jaw since they are not connected. Besides the ability to create/control the dimensions of the implant preoperatively Read More…
Augmentation of the upper third of the face is ideally done with a custom forehead implant design. In creating these designs one of its considerations is whether the augmentation should stop at the bony temporal line or does it need to extend onto the temporal muscle area at the side of the forehead. As a Read More…
Background: Augmenting the upper third of the face often requires a custom implant approach to be optimally effective. There are obvious gender differences in forehead augmentation in which many more men need brow bone coverage than do women. Females rarely need brow bone augmentation with the extension of the implant design in that area for Read More…
Background: V line surgery is a well known bony jaw reduction/reshaping procedure. In its most traditional form it is an amputation of the inferior border of the jaw from the jaw angles up to the side of the chin. The greatest amount of bone is vertically removed from the jaw angles and becomes less as Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the skull can now be performed in an almost limitless fashion. This has become possible due to the readily accessible 3D CT skull scanning and the use of computer designing on onlay skull implants. In some ways what had been available for facial bone augmentation has now been extended to the Read More…
The placement of standard jaw angle implants or a custom wrap around jawline implant requires elevation of the masseter muscle and some or all of its ligamentous attachments. The goal is to elevate the muscle to fit the implant underneath while not losing its periosteal attachments along the inferior border and around the angle area. Read More…
Background: Custom midface implants create new possibilities for adding increased projection to the middle third of the face. Unlike the numerous off-the-shelf implants which are available (cheek, tear trough, premaxillary and paranasal implants), the custom midface implant provides a global enhancement effect. It is somewhat similar to a LeFort III advancement without dentoalveolar and nasal Read More…
Custom implants are a paradigm shift in aesthetic augmentations of the midface. While there are numerous off-the-shelf augmentation options such as cheek, tear trough, and pyriform aperture (premaxillary and paranasal) implants, their effects are limited or only a subtotal midface enhancement. While this is what the vast majority of patients seek there is a subset 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...