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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 smaller and least recognized areas of facial augmentation is the central nasal region. Reasons for augmenting the base of the nose are for general midface retrusion or flattening but can also be done to improve the nasolabial angle/upper lip projection or to soften deeper nasolabial folds at the alara-facial junction. Premaxillary Read More…
Background: The perception of the lower jaw in males is often perceived as one of size. A ‘big’ lower jaw is often seen as a strong male facial appearance. And while there is some truth to that belief, it is neither applicable to all men or all jawlines. Shape sometimes can be as important, if Read More…
Background: Aesthetic shape deformities of the upper third of the male face can involve the forehead, brow bone or some combination of both. When it is a forehead issue it can be one of excessive bony prominence (like forehead horns or bossing) or lack of bony projection. (backward sloping forehead or a forehead that is Read More…
Background: Male masculinization involves a variety of procedures of which the jawline at the junction of the face and neck is a major skeletal component that contribute to the desired facial effect. Standard chin and jaw angles can be effective for jawline augmentation but pose issues with shape and size as well as connectivity around Read More…
The tear trough deformity is very common and is most commonly treated by non-surgical methods (injectable fillers) with variable success. It is more effectively treated by surgery based on release of this osteocutaneous ligament though the two methods of lower blepharoplasty. Some form of interpositional spacer is needed to prevent reattachment/reformation of the tear trough Read More…
Background: The forehead is a broad comparatively flat surface area for the most part with the exception of the lower brow bone area. In women the brow bone area has little if any protrusion and thus has no aesthetic significance. In men, however, the medial protrusions caused by the pneumatized development of the underlying frontal Read More…
Background: A strong male jawline is an important aesthetic feature that has long been recognized as part of an attractive face. The jawline is essentially composed of three corners (chin and jaw angles) whose degree of prominences determines its external appearance. While the jaw angles has more recently been recognized as an important jaw feature Read More…
Background: Custom facial implants provide the most substantial amount of facial augmentation due to their often larger bony surface areas that are covered. This combined with the ability to create one’s desired dimension and shape of the implant illustrate why this implant approach is far superior for many patient’s over the use of standard facial Read More…
Background: The traditional use of facial implants is based on the most common locations of aesthetic bony augmentation. This constitutes the design of standard implant shapes, most of which provide expansion of existing flat or convex bone contours. Few, if any, standard facial implants provide augmentation to an existing concave bone surface. This is because Read More…
The custom design approach to cheek augmentation allows for an extended and much more versatile midface effect for many patients. Many custom cheek implants become infraorbital-malar designs for a combined undereye and cheek bone enhancement. This is better for many patients as a weaker cheekbone is often associated with undereye hollows given that the bones 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...