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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: 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…
Background: The most common jaw augmentation procedures, both historically and today, is the placement of a chin implant. While the primary objective is an increase in horizontal projection in most cases secondary objectives may be changes in vertical height and shape of the chin. One such secondary objective that is unique in men is the desire Read More…
Background: Jaw angle implants pose very difficult challenges than chin implants in both size and style selection as well as surgical placement. The most obvious difference is that a chin implant is a single procedure while jaw angle implants are two procedures due to their bilateral locations. Positioning a single implant over a solitary projecting Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies a full third of the upper face and as such has a major role to play in facial aesthetics. Despite its broad surface area coverage it does not have many distinct features that creates its look. Other than the leading edge of the frontal hairline superiorly and the eyebrows inferiorly it Read More…
In jaw angle and custom jawline implants the most challenging part of the surgery is to get the implants properly positioned over the bone. Between the limited visual access of the intraoral incisional approach and the ligamentous attachments of the masseter muscles it is not as easy as it may seem to get implant positioning Read More…
The custom midface mask implant is an under appreciated form of aesthetic facial augmentation but one that has a very significant effect. It is based on the custom implant principle of total bone coverage of an aesthetic third of the face. For example the custom jawline implant covers or wraps around the entire lower third Read More…
Background: Brow bone augmentation is most commonly requested by men for understandable reasons. A stronger more projecting brow bone in the upper third of the face creates an enhanced masculine appearance. Conversely in females a softer brow bone appearance is desired with lack of any visible brow bone prominences particularly in the inner half of 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...