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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: Lower jaw augmentation surgery is requested for a variety of aesthetic reasons. Most commonly patients are interested in improvement in their jaw shape, feeling that is weak or ill defined. While this is often perceived as being in the horizontal direction for the chin and at the width of the jaw angles, more patients Read More…
Background: The traditional approach to aesthetic jaw implant surgery is a combination of intraoral (2) and external incisions. (1) The intraoral incisions are needed to access the jaw angle region where that portion of the implants are placed on the bone under the masseter muscle. While the intraoral approach to the jaw angles is scarless, Read More…
Background: Total jawline augmentation has historically been done by a combination of standard chin and jaw angle implants. While effective for some they ‘fail’ as often as they succeed for three reasons. First when three implants are placed around the curve of the jawline perfect placement of symmetry of them is very difficult to achieve. Read More…
Background: Ample projection of the midface is determined by numerous bony and soft tissue landmarks. The most classic sign of a midface deficiency is an underbite. The more posterior positioning of the maxillary arch compared to the mandibular teeth can occur in isolation but often is also part of a more global midface deficiency. In Read More…
The custom jawline implant provides the most significant aesthetic change to the lower third of the face. This is due to its ability to affect all three dimensions of the jawline as it wraps around it. While there are various factors that affect the aesthetic outcome in the placement of a custom jawline implant, tissue Read More…
The most aesthetic changer of the shape of the lower third of the face is a custom jawline implant. By wrapping around and augmenting the inferolateral border of the entire jawline the trasition between the face and neck becomes more evident. In terms of surface area coverage the jawline implant is the largest facial implant Read More…
The custom jawline implant is the ideal method for creating a more visible an defined lower face. It creates this effect as it builds out a more prominent transition between the face and the neck through skeletal augmentation. One element that determines how profound that effect is is the soft tissue thicknesses both above and Read More…
Vertical lengthening of the chin is an interesting procedure that entails different considerations than traditional horizontal chin augmentation. It differs because the techniques to elongate the chin are not well known or used as the diagnosis of vertical chin deficiency is frequently overlooked. From a traditional standpoint vertical chin lengthening was perceived as only being Read More…
Background: Syndromic jaw deficiencies represent the most severe lower facial deformities that occur. There is a spectrum of such congenital craniofacial deformities of which hemifacial microsomia and Treacher Collins are the most recognized. What these syndromes share in common is that the branchial arches are affected which results in varying degrees of mandibular underdevelopment as Read More…
The midface equivalent of the custom jawline implant of the lower face is the custom infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant. Besides the break for the nose this is an implant that augments the convexity of the midface from under the eye out onto the zygomatic body and arch. While it is possible in some smaller IOM implants 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...