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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: The ear initially develops from the pharyngeal arches in the neck and during embryologic development raises up to the side of the head. This is why in some congenital facial deformities the ear position is low as part of the disruption of the normal embryologic process. While the development of the lobule of the Read More…
Background: While there are various methods of performing a lower facelift the one aspect that all share are am incision in and around each ear. One can debate whether the pre auricular incision goes in front of or behind the tragus but it will always wrap around the earlobe on its way to the back Read More…
The facelift is a well known facial rejuvenation procedure that has had many technical and some conceptual variations over the years. The biggest innovation and recent is for the deep plane facelift. One could debate what constitutes a deep plane facelift at the SMAS and sub-SMAS layers but the concept is anatomically sound…release and lift Read More…
A well known minimally invasive facial rejuvenation procedure is the thread lift. This term refers to a concept of lifting sagging facial tissues by placing special designed sutures that can grab onto the subcutaneous tissues to be pulled upward along the line of the suture placement. This occurs as a result of a tied knot Read More…
Background: While there are many techniques for lower facelift surgery they all share one basic element…incisions around the ears. No matter what is done inside (SMAS manipulations) the presence of incision in and around the ears is what controls the amount of face and neck skin that is removed and repositioned in the procedure. As Read More…
V line surgery is a well known technique of reductive contouring of the lower third of the face. It is based on reducing the size of the lower jaw from front to back with more bone removed at the jaw angles than at the chin. There are several different types of v line surgery but Read More…
Adverse changes in the cheeks such as flatness and sagging is a common sequelae of aging as the tissues fall off of the cheekbones. Sagging cheek tissues combined with volume loss from fat atrophy make cheek management an important element of some facelift surgeries. Adding volume back and/or lifting of the cheeks back up can Read More…
Background: Facelift surgery has been performed for over a century. While there have been many advancements in facelift surgery due to a better understanding of the anatomy the one component of it that has never changed is the location of the incisions. They have always been placed around the ear and serve as the most Read More…
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is mainly a reductive procedure of bony structures. This is done on such facial areas as the brow bones, cheeks and jawline/chin. To do so the subperiosteal stripping of the attached soft tissues is done. Between the soft tissue release and the subsequent bone reduction, the overlying soft tissues need to Read More…
In facelift surgery management of the neck is an important component of the procedure. Getting an improved neck, as judged by the sharpness of the cervicomental angle, is often one of the primary objectives of the surgery. In the neck the anatomic contributions that come with aging are loose skin, fat accumulation and changes in 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...