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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 most common approach to a complete jawline augmentation would be with the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. This can work well for many patients but requires proper implant selection and placement to be effective. While this sounds straightforward it often is not so simple. Chin and jaw angle implant styles Read More…
Background: Orthognathic surgery provides functional (occlusal) and certain aesthetic benefits in some patients. It primary role is almost always functional where it be for improved jaw function or in the treatment of sleep apnea. While cutting and moving the jaw bones has a long history of a high rate of successful bone healing, the rearrangement Read More…
Background: The face is well known to be divided into aesthetic thirds. This aesthetic concept is important in both frontal and side views but with different dimensional effects. A lesser appreciated proportional measurement is that of facial fifths in the frontal view which relates to various transverse and vertical relationships. From this perspective the outer Read More…
Background: One of the most popular facial reshaping procedures in the world, by patient numbers, is V-line surgery. This is a lower facial reshaping procedure to reduce the size of the jaw and give it more of a V-shape in the frontal view. It is done by two different types of bone reduction techniques, jaw Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant is the most powerful augmentation method of the lower third of the face. Its wrap around design changes the entire jawline in an angle-chin-ange distance. In essence the entire outer cortical border of the mandible is expanded. It is not surprising that its effect is more significant than three separate Read More…
Some men desire a more square shape to their chin implant augmentation. Standard square chin implant styles have been around for decades and have served some patients well. But like all standard implants they do not work well for everyone and may not create as much squareness as the patient desires. It is important to Read More…
Creating the high cheekbone look using an implant currently requires a special design to do so. Such a look is based on the natural shape and convexity of the complete zygomatic bone which includes both its main body as well as posterior arch component. There are no standard cheek implants that have yet been designed Read More…
One distinct male feature is the of a prominent brow bone at the lower end of the forehead. It is one of many facial features that distinguishes males from females. It extends over the eyes with a horizontal projection, has a brow bone break before heading up into the forehead and has a slight glabellar Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of temporal hollowing, like most forms of facial augmentation, is most commonly done using injectable fillers and fat. This is certainly appropriate given that temporal hollowing is a soft tissue deformity and not as a result of a bone defect or deficiency. While different forms of such injectates exists and their advantages Read More…
Background: In the effort to create a more defined face on the younger patient, the combination of skeletal augmentation and soft tissue reduction remains the main efforts to do so. While there are different ways to consider augmenting the facial bones, the definitive, most powerful and long-lasting are implants that push the soft tissues off 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...