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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...
A custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the shape of the lower face. Because it creates a volumetric expansion of the entire bony surface of the lower jaw that is responsible for its external appearance, it can create jawline changes that are not capable from any other operation. Even a sagittal split Read More…
There are two powerful jawline techniques for changing the size and shape of the lower third of the face. Orthognathic surgery is well known and has been done for many decades. In the developmentally deficient lower jaw sagittal split osteotomies, particularly if a chin augmentation is combined with it, can produce dramatic changes in the Read More…
Facial implants have been around as a common aesthetic facial procedure for about three decades. Over this time many different styles and sizes of facial implants have become commercially available and they do satisfy may modest to moderate aesthetic facial bone deficiencies. But not every aesthetic facial volume need can be meet with the use Read More…
Aesthetic augmentations of the face has been done for decades using standard implants for the chin and cheeks primarily. But other preformed implants also exist for the jaw angles, nasal, paranasal and tear trough areas although they are less frequently done. The widespread use of injectable fillers and patient awareness has made these less frequently Read More…
The most common implant method of augmentation above the jawline are cheek implants. While not quite as historic as chin implants, cheek implants have been around for decades. While they can be effective for the properly selected patient, their midfacial effects are limited to the anterior malar and submalar regions of the face with today’s Read More…
Custom implant designing has been a game changer in the world of facial reshaping surgery. The ability to control the dimensions of a facial implant that typically covers a much greater surface area than standard facial implants offers an unparalleled ability to change the shape of a face. The most typical custom facial implant done Read More…
Jawline augmentation has been historically perceived, and is still done so today by many plastic surgeons, as augmentation of the chin. But the chin is just the anterior portion of the jaw and represents less than one-third of its total bony mass. Jawline augmentation really refers to either isolated jaw angle augmentation or complete augmentation Read More…
The prominence of the chin, the projecting anterior point of the lower jaw, is a facial feature sought by many men. The shape of the chin, however, has other features than just an anterior prominence. It has the other dimensional features of width and vertical length as well as unique surface topography in dimples and Read More…
Background: Fractures of the lower jaw is the second most common facial fracture other than the nose. Amongst these traumatic jaw bone injuries, fractures through the jaw angles is the most frequently location along the course of the bone. They can be difficult to surgically repair due to both surgical access as well as the Read More…
Background: The forehead is responsible for a major part of the shape of the face. Its broad skin surface area can have a variety of shapes that exhibit well known gender differences. Contemporary desired forehead shapes in females are more vertical in inclination with a convex shape from side to side. Unlike most men who 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...