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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: The appearance of the head can have multiple types of undesired aesthetic shapes. One of these unaesthetic types is that of the narrow head. This occurs when the head has a decreased bitemporal width as seen by a narrow or more pinched forehead that carries back along the side of head all the way Read More…
Background: V line surgery is a now well known lower jaw reshaping procedure to help slim the lower face. In its original and still most commonly used technique, a vertical amputation (oblique ostectomy) of the lower jaw is done from the jaw angles forward to the anterior body of the mandible. This is then combined Read More…
Background: Cheek implants are the most common surgical method of midface augmentation. But determining what the shape and amount that the cheek augmentation should be for any particular patient is far from an exact science. Unlike chin implants, in which linear assessment and computer imaging can really help define what the patient wants to achieve, Read More…
Background: Chin implants are available in three different material compositons, over a dozen different styles with numerous sizes for each style. With such a large number of chin implant options one would think that just about every chin augmentation dimensional need can be met by an off-the-shelf implant. But the vast majority of the many Read More…
Cheek augmentation is most commonly performed today by injectable fillers. But when filler fatigue sets in cheek implants offer a permanent augmentation method. Cheek implants have been around for a long time and a variety of styes and sizes exist. Their use has historically been for females of which the same still exists today. But Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetry affects the face in seemingly variable and unpredictable ways. But in reality most facial asymmetries are relatively complete (affects the entire side of the face) if one looks closely enough and follows one of two patterns. (lower/inferior and upper/superior types) In other words they are more predictable than they may appear. In Read More…
Background: Facial implants are a common method used for permanent aesthetic augmentation. But the concept to grasp about their use is that is a reason that are available as off-the-shelf preformed implants….they are made for modest aesthetic concerns that can be improved by a single ‘spot’ augmentation. This is the role that standard cheek and Read More…
Th typical perception of the outer shape of the jaw angles is that they are a flat surface. This is certainly how they are seen in looking at regular x-rays and on most plastic jaw models. But in looking at many 3D CT scans for jawline implant designs it is apparent that their actual topography Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the periorbital region has very few standard implant options. Such standard implants are made for the aesthetic tear trough deformity and some modest amount of horizontal infraorbital rim deficiency. Combined with cheek implants an infraorbital-malar horizontal augmentation can be achieved but not in a contiguous fashion. But specific types of infraorbital-malar augmentations Read More…
The custom infraorbital-malar implant is the most effective approach to treating undereye hollows and in creating a specific cheek augmentation look. (high cheekbone look) It provides a linear line of bone augmentation from the nose to the end of the zygomatic arch. In placing such an implant through a lower eyelid incision the pocket dissection 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...