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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: One of the most popular and commonly performed custom facial implants is that of the jawline. By surface area it is the largest custom implant design since it covers the entire jawline in a wrap around fashion. In designing these implants they are seven specific dimensional decisions that must be made at its three Read More…
Cheek implants are a common form of facial augmentation but there are numerous anatomic misconceptions about them. The cheeks are not a pure bone or soft tissue structure. Rather it is an aesthetic term myjhayt connotes a midfacial area. While there is underlying bony support to the overlying cheek region called the zygoma or cheekbone, Read More…
Background: Cheek augmentation, like all forms of facial enhancement, have gender specific characteristics. While some women may seek increased fullness in the lower cheek area (malar/submalar) while men usually prefer it to be higher and more completely sitting on the bone. In essence women often prefer fuller cheeks while men prefer a more defined or Read More…
Background: While facial feminization surgery (FFS) is now a recognized niche area of plastic surgery its counterpart, facial masculinization surgery (FMS) ,is less well known. While it has long been done in a limited fashion with some standard procedures. (e.g., chin augmentation) other procedures to specifically masculinize the face are less frequently performed or are Read More…
Background: While men make up the majority of aesthetic jaw implant augmentation surgeries there are some females who undergo it as well. They difference is in the custom jawline implant design which obviously is less significant in size and angularity. It has more of an overall V-shaped design with a more tapered chin shape and Read More…
Background: In aesthetic forehead augmentation what differs between male and females is the brow bone component. Females usually do not have a brow bone section of their implant or, if it does, it does not extend beyond the forehead projection above it. While men can have a forehead implant alone, if they have good brow Read More…
Background: Of all facial areas for aesthetic structural augmentation the brow bone is the most unique. It may be a relatively small area but its shape is complex and is very visible sitting right above the eyes. It is also a very gender specific facial feature in which requests to do so are almost always Read More…
Access to the jaw angles, whether for aesthetic implant placement or to perform sagittal split osteotomies, uses an incision overlying the external oblique line on the bone. While often viewed as having no significant structures between the mucosa and this bony ridge line this is not entirely accurate. The buccal neurovascular bundle runs in proximity Read More…
Background: While all standard chin implants are designed to provide varying amounts of horizontal projection they have a round shape to them. The one exception is the chin implant whose name describes what it intended to do…the square style chin implant. It is fair to say that this is primarily used in men who request Read More…
Cheek implants are a common type of aesthetic structural facial augmentation surgery that is only secondary in number performed to chin implants. They are usually placed through an intraoral approach crossing the concave surface of the maxilla in the subperiosteal plane to place the implant at various positions on the malar/submalar area. Far less frequently 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...