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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: Facial asymmetry has highly variable presentations. But in many cases a smaller jawline on the affected side is seen. While this is typically perceived as a smaller jaw angle area, closer inspection by 3D CT scan analysis will usually reveal that the entire jawline is deficient from the chin posteriorly back to the jaw Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetry is common and most of us have it to some mild degree. Some would say that a certain amount of asymmetry makes the face uniquely different and provides character to it. But only each individual can say whether they consider their degree of facial asymmetry, if present, of aesthetic benefit or not. Read More…
Background: The most common form of a short lower face is of the horizontal dimension. The chin is seen to be short and is positioned behind the forward position of the lower lip to varying degrees. Depending upon its severity there may be a malocclusion of the Class II variety. All methods of such jaw Read More…
Background: An improved jawline or support to the lower third of the face is most commonly done using implants. Standard chin and jaw angle implants have been available for three decades in a variety of styles and sizes. While effective for some patients an unconnected three implant jawline augmentation approach has potential issues of malpositions, Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is the most common facial reshaping procedure that employs an implant to create its effect. Most people seek it to enhance the projection of the lower face as a stand alone procedure or as a complement to other facial procedures. (e.g., rhinoplasty) The outcome success is fairly high for chin implants, citing Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant provides the most significant augmentative changes to the lower third of the face. Designed from the patients’s 3D CT scan, the entire shape of the lower jaw from angle to angle can be changed by altering the shape of its inferolateral bony contour. These type of implant changes are only Read More…
Orthognathic surgery produces significant facial skeletal changes and bite correction. For many patients who undergo orthognathic surgery that operation addresses all of their facial concerns and no further surgery is required. But by the nature of where and how the maxillary and mandibular osteotomies are done, contour irregularities along the jawline can occur as well Read More…
Background: Facial structural weakness is most commonly associated with the lower face, the chin and jawline. This is easy to identify because these are protruding structures that are at the junction with the neck and there is a natural demarcation between the jawline and the neck. Skeletal weaknesses of the upper face are harder to Read More…
Background: Chin implants in the history of plastic surgery was the first and still most common form of jaw augmentation. Many surgeons today still see the patient’s desire for lower aesthetic facial enhancement as a chin augmentation procedure. But today’s patients are more informed about the possibilities of jaw augmentation and are often desirous of Read More…
The contemporary use of a custom facial implant approach has introduced a whole new method of facial reshaping. The historic use of standard facial implants, while creating their own beneficial changes, by definition are more limited due to their smaller sizes and coverage of less bone surface area. Most patients consider a custom implant 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...