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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...
Injectable fillers of various types are widely used today to create enhanced facial volumes. They can specifically be used to enhance the facial skeletal features of the brow bones, nose, cheek, chin and jawline. While such facial bone augmentation results are highly dependent on the type of filler used, the volume placed and the skill Read More…
Background: When evaluating facial asymmetries I divide them into two basic types, craniofacial and aesthetic. Some many view this distinction as minor vs major but the terms craniofacial and aesthetic is more meaningful as it differentiates how they are treated. Major facial asymmetries are often syndromic (e.g., hemifacial microsomia), usually involve earlier intervention in childhood Read More…
Background: The one primary feature that separates the male forehead from that of the female is the presence of visible brow bone mounds/protrusions. Males have these inferior forehead prominences and the suprabrow break above them that creates this uniquely male forehead shape. Occasionally some females will be seen with brow bone prominences but they are Read More…
Augmentation of the midface is a variable term and concept. This could mean a wide range of augmenting the convexities and concavities that make up the central third of the face. Traditionally midface augmentation meant cheek implants. And although there are various styles of cheek implants this means increasing the convexity of the zygomatic major Read More…
The custom jawline implant is the most effective method of achieving a total jawline augmentation change. Its surface area coverage through its wrap around design alters all aspects of the face-neck transitional area through soft tissue release and expansion from the implant spacer on the bone. The soft tissue expansion effect of the implant is Read More…
Background: V line surgery is a popular form of lower facial reshaping focusing on reducing the size of the lower jaw. It is essentially a removal of the inferior border of the lower jaw from the jaw angles up to the chin. The chin is then reshaped by various forms of t-shaped osteotomies to narrow Read More…
Jawline augmentation is traditionally associated with a male facial reshaping procedure. While this may have been historically true that is no longer so. You only have to look at commercials, ads, news women and female celebrities to realize that having a well defined jawline is a contemporary desired facial feature for women as well. More Read More…
Custom designed implants have provided completely new types of facial augmentation effects not thought previously possible. This is particularly true in the cheek area where various oval-shaped implant styles are available as standard options. These create malar-submalar fullness over the anterolateral aspect of the cheekbone often called an ‘apple cheek’ effect. But such an aesthetic Read More…
Background: While chin implants are commonly performed on both men and women, that does not mean they should be performed in an identical manner. In that regard I am not referring to the surgical technique to place them. Rather I am referring to the implant style and size chosen for the different genders. I think Read More…
Custom infraorbital-malar (IOM) implants have expanded the augmentation options for the midface. Creating an implant footprint from under the eye and out onto the zygomatic arch provides a horizontal line of augmentation that uniquely treats undereye and cheekbone deficiencies. It is also responsible for creating the popular high cheekbone look. When placing custom 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...