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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: Cheek augmentation is a common form of aesthetic midface enhancement and uses standard implant styles and sizes to do so. While effective in the properly selected patient, standard cheek implants are inadequate for cheek deficiencies that are more significant in scope, when cheek asymmetry exists or when a specific cheek look is desired. (e.g., Read More…
Background: The bones around the eye consist of three rim segments, supraorbital, lateral orbital and infraorbital rims. The medial aspect of the orbital bone that completes its circumference is not a convex rim of bone but a concave surface. All of the orbital rims can be aesthetically augmented of which the brow bones (supraorbital rim) Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the lower jaw is traditionally done by standard chin and jaw angle implants. While effective in properly selected patients, standard implants are not ideal when jaw asymmetry exists. Standard jaw implants are best thought of as ‘spot’ methods of augmentation that work well when the three corners (chin and two jaw angles) Read More…
While custom jawline or jaw wraparound implants produce the most dramatic changes of the lower face, they face challenges in both their design and placement. How they should be best designed to achieve a patient’s desired jaw shape is both an art and a science. There are specific guidelines that I use based both on Read More…
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…
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...