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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: Congenital ear reconstruction, like is needed in microtia, is challenging due to the tissue deficiencies which is primarily the cartilage framework. This can be overcome in many cases by the natural stretch of the overlying and surrounding tissues, which while deficient, are pliable and elastic. In more severe cases of microtia a first stage Read More…
Background: Traumatic loss of part or all of one’s ear at any age poses a difficult reconstructive challenge. In some cases the use of autologous grafts (rib grafts and flaps) can be done. While effective this places an additional vertical scar in the temporal region for flap harvest. This may also be more additional scar Read More…
Background: There are a variety of vascular tumors that can affect the face. The most well known is that of a hemangioma, a benign proliferation of blood vessels which can originate in the skin and have a very visible outward appearance. It is usually not present and birth or may only appear as a small Read More…
Background: As a projecting structure from the side of the head with a funnel-like and flexible attachment, the ear can withstand a wide variety of deforming forces. Its very flexibility protects it from injury when exposed to shearing forces. Like a palm tree in high winds its ability to bend is a protective mechanism. But Read More…
Background: As a projecting facial structure the ear is exposed to a variety of traumatic insults. One such type of traumatic ear injury is that of burns. Most commonly occurring in house and other entrapped fire situations, the sustained exposure to high heat often causes a melted ear appearance. The anterior exposed ear surface often Read More…
Background: Microtia is a well known congenital ear deformity where the external ear has variable amounts of underdevelopment. It is not that rare of a facial deformity affecting about 1 in 10,000 births. While it can occur in both ears, it more commonly affects one side of which it occurs far more frequently on the Read More…
Reconstruction of the lost ear requires a two-layer approach. The base la\yer is the firm and shaped framework which replaces the missing natural cartilage. The choices for the framework are either rib cartilage or synthetic framework. The second layer is the need for vascularized tissue coverage which, in cases of large amounts of ear loss, Read More…
Background: Loss of an ear can occur from a variety of reasons including cancer resection and traumatic avulsion. Such ear amputations pose major reconstructive challenges which can be done using an autogenous method (cartilage framework and vascularized soft tissue cover), completely prosthetic method (ear prosthesis) or a combination of both autogenous tissue and prosthesis. (synthetic Read More…
Reconstruction of lost or congenitally malformed ears requires the combination of a solid framework and soft tissue coverage of it. Two techniques for making a framework for the ear have been developed over the years. By history and still commonly used today is to make the framework by harvesting and assembling rib cartilage grafts. While Read More…
Ear reconstruction for partially or completely removed/lost ears in adults must take into consideration the needed soft tissue coverage. While the cartilage of the ear can be replaced by either a synthetic framework or rib cartilage, it requires vascularized tissue and a skin graft to have a reconstruction result that survives and hopefully looks good. 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...