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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: The forehead in a male has visible brow bone prominences, a supra brow bone break and a slight backward slope to the forehead. The backward slope is anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees and the side to side contour has limited convexity. The amount of horizontal brow bone prominence is in the range of Read More…
While the ogee curve has good relevance to midface aesthetics, it lacks specific measurements as to the ideal curve shapes that would best benefit any particular patient. The concept of lazy S-shaped curves lacks a specific meaning when it comes to actually creating them. While with injection techniques the creation of specific curved changes should Read More…
While a custom jawline implant can provide an unparalleled amount of lower facial change, it must be able to be inserted in an effective manner with good positioning and the creation of minimal scar in so doing. There are two methods to meet all of these criteria which will only work when the jawline implant Read More…
Custom facial and skull implants provide broad surface bone and soft tissue coverage with implant designs that can not be achieved with standard preformed implants. This almost always means the implant covers a larger surface area than standard implants, not necessarily that it is thicker although it may be. Because these custom implants are bigger, Read More…
While permanent cheek augmentation can be effectively done using standard implants, such implant styles do not provide the type of cheek shape change that some patients seek. Cheek augmentation is a unique aesthetic challenge because of its unique dimensional structure which is not a classic projectional bony prominence with its interface with the anterior eye, Read More…
Custom implants made from the patient’s 3D CT scan are the most effective method of aesthetic skull augmentation. Whether it is the forehead, back of the head, temporal areas or top of the skull, covering large skull surface areas with a desired and smooth shaped implant requires a thoughtful preoperative design process. At the very Read More…
The lower jaw has numerous constituent parts one of which is the ramus. The ramus of the mandible has considerable clinical interest as it is associated with multiple reconstructive and aesthetic procedures. The well known sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) is a fundamental orthognathic surgery procedure that splits the ramus into two pieces in a Read More…
Background: Orthognathic surgery, whether it involves one jaw or two, can produce some phenomenal results from an external facial appearance. The more under projected the lower face is, setting the occlusion into the desired position in space can create substantial improvements in the outward facial appearance as the facial bones follow around it. But despite Read More…
Custom designing of  implants for face is an evolving technology that is gaining traction for an increasing number of aesthetic clinical applications. Historically a variety of standard facial implants existed that were developed for common and modest aesthetic facial enhancements. But when more significant problems were encountered, such as the need for larger augmentations or Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the cheeks is available to be done by a variety of implant types. Most standard cheek implants provide augmentation to the zygomatic body section of the cheek in an oval shaped geometry. While such a more rounded fullness effect to the cheeks may be favorable for some, such implants can not 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...