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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...
Replacing standard jaw implants with a custom jawline implant is not an uncommon upgrade for some patients. While standard chin and jaw angle implants can produce good results in the properly selected patient, their lack of connectivity creates the potential for malpositioning and difficulty with symmetry at the jaw angles. It is important to think Read More…
The most successful method for cheek augmentation in most males is augmentation along the infraorbital-zygomatic arch line using an infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant. Since this creates a line of horizontal bone enhancement across the cheek area, it successfully creates the often sought after high cheekbone look. This is in contrast to what a standard oval cheek Read More…
Background: One of the features of the male forehead is that it has a more backward slope than that of a female. How much of a backward slope that is acceptable is a matter of personal preference. But the location of the frontal hairline can influence the appearance of the forehead slope in profile. The Read More…
One of the common questions I get in regards to custom infraorbital-malar (IOM) implants is can they be placed through an intraoral approach. This question is asked because most of the time I do place them through a lower eyelid incision. Having placed them earlier in my clinical experience through the intraoral route I can Read More…
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…
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...