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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...
Otoplasty or ear reshaping surgery for prominent ears has a long history of over a century of clinical experience. Since its early inception the focus has been on changing the shape of the cartilage which makes up almost the entire ear with the exception of the earlobe. How to reshape the ear cartilage has been Read More…
The most common procedure in ear reshaping is a setback otoplasty. Done since the late 1890s the treatment of the protruding ears has undergone a evolution in techniques. Initially relying on skin removal from the back of the ear only, less relapse was associated with manipulation of the ear cartilages. Folding back of the ear Read More…
Otoplasty is the generic term for many differ types of aesthetic ear surgeries. The term is most commonly associated with the setback procedure or ear pinning. This is where the ears stick out or protrude too far from the side of the head and the ear cartilage is reshaped or repositioned to bring the ear Read More…
Background: The shape of the ear can be changed by a variety of surgical procedures. The most common is the setback otoplasty for the protruding ear. By bending back the main cartilage framework of the ear using primarily sutures, it resets its cartilage shape memory through prolonged suture immobility. While the otoplasty is often viewed Read More…
Background: The amount of protrusion of the ear from the side of the head varies amongst different people. But regardless of the exact auriculocephalic angle an individual has, the frontal view of the ear should show a three-level tier shape. This means there is the concha at the lowest or inner level, the antihelical fold Read More…
The most common form of otoplasty surgery is for the correction of protruding ears. This type of cosmetic ear surgery has been around for more than a century and has evolved to being a primarily cartilage reshaping technique. When setting the ear back, or decreasing the auriculocephalic angle, it is an intraoperative judgement call as Read More…
Background: There are numerous congenital ear malformations, many of which are not that common. One of the more rare congenital ear deformities is that known as Stahl’s ear. While described long ago in the 19th century, it is more commonly known today as Spock ear in reference to the more well known character on the Read More…
Background: While the ears are on the opposite sides of the head and can only be simultaneously viewed in the front view, this does not mean that people don’t care about ear asymmetries. The ears can be asymmetric for a lot of different reasons from how much they stick out to differences in their size Read More…
Background: The ear is comprised of many individual shapes created by the shape of the underlying cartilage. It is unclear as to the functional significance of many of these cartilage prominences. But the most anterior one, the tragus, has a clear functional role in the deflection of sound waves back into the external auditory canal. Read More…
Background: The most common major aesthetic ear surgery is the setback otoplasty. With a long surgical history numerous methods have been described for setting back the protruding ear and decreasing the auriculocephalic angle. (bring the ear back closer to the head) The fundamental concept is that the ear cartilages have to be manipulated either by 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...