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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 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…
Background: The presence and size of the brow bone is an important male facial feature. Having a visible brow bone as defined by the presence of a brow bone break into the forehead above it is an upper facial feature that separates most men from women. One can debate about what size this visible brow Read More…
Background: The aesthetic desire for many custom facial implant patients is to have a noticeable but natural looking result. While one could argue that is a very subjective desire, and it is, but what that means to me is that it is a result that is not too big. Thus in the design process one Read More…
Background: The forward projection of the midface is a function of facial skeletal development, genetics and one’s ethnicity. Functionally what matters is how the teeth come together and whether there is enough dental overjet for adequate mastication. But short of the alveolus the rest of the midface skeletal development primary affects facial appearance short of Read More…
Background: A sliding genioplasty is the autologous option for chin augmentation. It is a versatile chin reshaping procedure that can provide horizontal projection, vertical length and even width reduction. The only dimension it can not achieve is chin widening. (which is the antithesis of what an implant can’t do…chin narrowing) Speaking of chin width it 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...