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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: Chin implants have been and still are the most common form of aesthetic facial implant augmentation. Because of its placement on the most projecting part of the lower face, which creates a distinct transition from the neck below it, it has been stated that is a facial procedure that has the highest aesthetic value. Read More…
Jaw angle augmentation is most effectively and permanent done with implants. While chin implants have been around for a long time the front part of the lower jaw has different and much more simplistic anatomy than its back part. Thus neither patient or surgeon should confuse placement of chin implants with jaw angle implants which Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the cheek area is second only in frequency to that of the chin and jawline. But unlike the lower third of the face the term ‘cheek’ is imprecise when defining what a patient wants to accomplish and there are significant gender differences in what this term means. As the cheek area Read More…
Background: There are two basic autologous methods of changing the shape/position of the lower jaw. The sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) moves the body and symphysis bone while the sliding genioplasty (SG) repositions the symphysis (chin) bone. Both do so by cutting through the entire vertical length of the involved jaw bone done through its Read More…
Background: Chin implants historically were the original jaw augmentation procedure. That remained so until the introduction of the jaw angle implant in the 1990s which provided the ability to augment another part of the lower jaw. But jaw angle implants never really became as popular as chin implants for a variety of reasons, much of Read More…
Background: Augmentation of aesthetic facial deformities are common procedures of which the lower third of the face (chin and jaw) is the most common. Augmentations of the upper two-thirds of the face is also done although lesser in number with the middle third of the face (cheeks, midface) being done more often than the upper Read More…
Background: The periorbital rim of bone around the eye can be aesthetically augmented but how it can be done is not well known. The only standard orbital rim implant is the tear trough implant, a limited spot implant of the infraorbital rim. Its original use was to treat an external indentation at the inner half Read More…
Background: Cheek implants have been around for nearly fifty years and their basic styles have largely remained the same. Malar, submalar and combinations thereof (aka shell implants) have been the mainstay of implant-based cheek augmentation which can be effective for many patients. In an otherwise normal volume face these implants work best in women and Read More…
Background: The most common form of cheek or midface augmentation is with the use of injectable materials. While fat is the most frequently used method of surgical injections as it is often performed along with other procedures, synthetic fillers even exceeds the use of fat because it is non-surgical. A wide variety of synthetic filler Read More…
The face is prone to a variety of aesthetic skeletal deficiencies of which the most common is that of the chin. Because it is a solitary projecting structure on the front edge of the lower face it is easy to recognize a deficiency as it also has an effect on the shape of the neck. 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...