Category: deltoid implants | plastic surgery case study

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Deltoid Implant Replacements in Shoulder Reshaping Of Muscle Loss After Axillary Nerve Injury

Background: When significant atrophy of the deltoid muscle occurs a bony shoulder appearance results. This most commonly occurs after an axillary nerve injury. The significant shrinkage of the muscle skeletonizes the AC joint and the upper humerus creating significant shoulder asymmetry. Restoration of the atrophic deltoid muscle can be done by soft tissue techniques such Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Replacing Malpositioned and Fractured Deltoid implants with Custom Designed Deltoid Implants

Background: Many different body muscle groups can be successfully augmented with aesthetic implants. The most common, both by history and clinical use, are for the pectoral, buttock and calf muscles. From pectoral implants has sprung the need for other upper body implants to complement them for the arms and shoulders. (bicep, tricep, and deltoid muscles) Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Deltoid Implants for Shoulder Asymmetry Due To Axillary Nerve Injury

Background: The well known deltoid muscle creates the rounded contour of the shoulders. It has at least three main muscle bellies that cover the shoulder joint which originate along the clavicle and scapula and insert into the humerus of the upper arm. It receives its motor innervation from the axillary nerve which originates from cevical Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Deltoid Implants for Shoulder Contour Restoration After Muscle Atrophy From An Axillary Nerve Injury

Background: The deltoid muscle is a primary abductor of the upper arm whose mass gives the shoulder its rounded shape. Despite its seemingly uniform rounded shape it actually has three distinct heads or muscle masses, the anterior, lateral and posterior heads which helps the arm abduct in different planes. It is innervated exclusively by the Read More…

Surgical Placement Technique for Subfascial Deltoid Implants

For men who seek wider shoulders beyond that of exercise there are three surgical options. The medial bone-based approach is clavicle lengthening while the lateral soft tissue methods include deltoids implants and deltoid fat injections. Each of these shoulder widening methods has their advantages and disadvantages and no method is perfect. The lateral soft tissue Read More…

Clavicle Lengthening By Osteotomy and Bone Grafting For Shoulder Width Augmentation

Aesthetic changes to the width of the shoulder can be done by a variety of surgical techniques. For shoulder width reduction only one surgical method exists…clavicular reduction osteotomies. Conversely shoulder augmentation can be done by three different methods which are performed at different shoulder locations. Deltoid muscle augmentation can be done by either injectable fat Read More…

Technical Strategies – Preoperative Marking and Incisional Insertion of Deltoid Implants

Shoulder augmentation is a procedure requested by men who want to widen their shoulder width. This can be done by either fat injection grafting, deltoid implants or clavicular bone lengthening. Each method has their advantages and disadvantages. Fat injections are minimal surgery but their volume persistence is unpredictable. Conversely clavicular lengthening is the most invasive, Read More…

OR Snapshots – Deltoid Muscle Augmentation by Fat Injections

Implants are most commonly used for aesthetic augmentation of numerous muscle areas of the body. These include the chest (pectoral implants), calfs (calf implants), and buttocks. (gluteal implants) Less frequently performed, although no less successful, is that of the upper extremity of the biceps and triceps muscle. One other muscular augmentation area of the upper Read More…

Technique for Deltoid Augmentation by Fat Injection

The treatment options for small shoulders or lack of adequate/desired deltoid muscle size has historically been the placement of implants. True deltoid implants as an off-the-shelf device does not exist due to lack of patient demand. But when a patient does request deltoid implants, they can be done using other modified body implants or they Read More…

Contemporary Body Implant Augmentation Surgery

Muscular enhancement of certain body parts can be done through the use of synthetic implants. Everyone knows about breast implant augmentation although this is not a true muscular enhancement but a breast tissue enlargement. Historically the most recognized body implants were for the chest, buttocks and calfs. The number of such implants combined pale in Read More…