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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: 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…
Background: Most concerns about the need for jawline augmentation are focused on the horizontal and width dimensions. Making the lower jaw more prominent is done by this 2D approach. The main need for adding verticality to the jawline is most commonly done in the posterior jaw angles where a high mandibular plane angle has created Read More…
Background: Custom jawline implants are the most powerful augmentation method of the lower third of the face. By increasing the outer contours of the lower jaw throughout its entire length, the continuous surface area coverage can have a powerful effect. Unlike standard implants which are often viewed in one dimension (e.g., chin implants and their Read More…
Background: While people have varying amounts of fat in their face, loss of a significant amount of it creates an unnatural and unhealthy look. Known medically as facial lipoatrophy, there are a variety of well known causes from genetics, extreme weight loss, medications side effects effects and certain diseases. Its variable presentations has created a Read More…
Background: Custom facial implants have understandably gone through an evolution that past quarter century…like all technology has. In the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of a custom facial implant was one were the few standard implants that existed was modified intraoperatively by handcarving. Or a solid block of material was hand craved into a specific Read More…
Background: Custom designed facial implants provide a great degree of facial change. The larger surface areas of custom implants and preoperative control of their shape and dimensions allows for a major change in facial shape if desired. To do so augmentation of the midface line (infraorbital-malar) and entire jawline are often done together as Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a common facial enhancement procedure that provides increased horizontal projection. This helps bring many such affected faces into better balance by lengthening the lower jaw to be more in line with the upper two-thirds of the face. While being the most common aesthetic chin deficiency, horizontal underprojection is not the only Read More…
Background: Well defined and angular facial features are desired by many men. Some men have it naturally due to their thinner faces and good bone structure. Others achieve it by photographic manipulation. Historic surgical efforts to create it have relied on traditional chin and cheek implants and buccal lipectomies, which help some, but often fall Read More…
The effectiveness of standard facial implants is based on their ability to improve the natural convexities of the facial bones. The bony projections of the chin, jaw angles and cheeks make up the majority of available facial implant types. These three prominences make up the important bony triangle of the face which together make a 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...