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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...
The male face typically has more prominent bone development than a female. The seven points of the face (chin, jaw angles, cheeks and brow bones) are more visible in men because these bony areas have undergone more development. There are other facial features that differentiate men from women (e.g., nose) but these skeletal landmarks serve Read More…
Upper third of the face augmentation is most successfully done in women by the design and fabrication of a custom forehead implant. Given that most women seek forehead augmentation to create an improved convexity and verticality, often with little to no lower brow bone enhancement, it is important to assess preoperative brow position. Some women Read More…
Background: The narrow forehead is often associated with an overall narrow skull shape development. Critical assessment of the narrow forehead shows that it is most restrictive at the temporal lines which indicates it is a combined bony and soft tissue deficiency. Thus augmenting the narrow forehead requires an approach that can provide a more complete Read More…
Background: Adequate augmentation of the deficient midface has historically been in the province of the LeFort osteotomy. While such osteotomies can be done at different levels of the midface depending on the skeletal deficiency, the one constant was the improved occlusal relationship it provided. Malocclusion was the inferior indicator and the hallmark of such midface Read More…
Of all the facial areas that can be augmented by implants, the jaw angle is the most treacherous. Between getting the desired jaw angle shape and avoiding a soft tissue deficiency over it remains the unique challenges in any form of isolated jaw angle or custom jawline implant surgery. Excessive lateral or posterior flare is Read More…
Background: One of the most powerful facial reshaping procedures is aesthetic jaw reshaping surgery, specifically a custom jawline implant. By virtue of its surface area coverage and the expansion of the entire inferolateral edge of the mandible, the entire lower third of the face is changed. There is no other comparative facial bone procedure short Read More…
Background: The historic approach for total jawline augmentation is the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. With a large array of implant styles and sizes, improved jawline definition can always be obtained. While most patients understandably focus on how much jawline improvement will be obtained, the use of standard implants poses a potential Read More…
Background: The proportions of the face are well known and are divided into thirds. This can be assessed in its the frontal and profile views as it is a vertical assessment. While this is not the only way to assess how balanced the face is it is one of the most obvious and basic that Read More…
Jaw angle augmentation with implants has become popular both as an isolated procedure as well as part of total jawline augmentation. In placing implants over the bony jaw angle region it is necessary to elevate the internal surface of the masseter muscle off of the bone. And in some cases when the implant needs to Read More…
The custom design and manufacturing process allows a virtual unlimited number of facial implant styles and sizes to be created. There is almost no implant shape that this process can not make if desired. Unlike standard facial implants, whose effects are limited by their smaller shapes and sizes, custom facial implants allow their resultant external 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...