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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...
The sliding genioplasty is a well known and effective chin reshaping procedure. Besides being an autologous chin augmentation method its value lies in its ability to make multi-dimensional changes particularly in the horizontal and vertical projections. But in so doing it does create an abnormal shape to the normal lazy S-shaped bony profile of the Read More…
Background: A tracheostomy is an urgent surgical procedure to establish a payment airway below the level of the thyroid cartilage and vocal cords. How long a tracheostomy stays is variable based on the reason it was initially inserted but eventually most are removed. When the tracheostomy is removed the resultant wound its allowed to heal Read More…
Background: While bone fractures is the most recognized type of facial injury, it is actually not the most common. Blunt soft tissue injuries are the most frequent occurrence over even lacerations. Such blunt trauma cause compression of the soft tissues between the externally applied force and the underlying solid bone. If the force is great Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the more popular uses of injectable synthetic fillers and has been so for more than two decades. They offer an immediate and non-surgical method of lip augmentation that works fairly well when adequate vermilion height exists. But it does require periodic injections to maintain the effect and injections into Read More…
Custom skull implants can make for some remarkable changes in the shape of the head. Besides being able to make a head augmentation change that is otherwise not possible by any other means one of the advantages of a custom implant design is to create a shape that blends into the surrounding skull in a Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a general term that encompasses a variety of different techniques to do so. The two commonly used methods are an implant and an osteotomy. A wide variety of implant materials, styles and sizes are available to create almost every type of desired chin augmentation effect. For very significant chin augmentations beyond Read More…
Hip augmentation remains a challenging body contouring procedure. An autologous approach with fat injections are the most logical approach but the survival of fat in the hip area is generally poor particularly if a deep trochanteric depression exists. Hip implants offer assured volume retention but have a significant complication rate due to the lack of Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is an effective chin augmentation procedure. In certain types of aesthetic chin surgery it is a better alternative than an implant. But it is not a complication free procedure. One of its potential side effects is long term tightness. The chin has an uncomfortable tight feeling which may affect the mobility Read More…
Background: Hip contouring historically was a reductive procedure for which liposuction was the definitive treatment. While that aesthetic body contouring need still exists today the reverse, hip augmentation, has become a commonly requested procedure. Driven by the increasing demand for buttock augmentation as well as male to female gender affirming surgeries the role of hip Read More…
Background: There are a variety of medical complications that can occur of any facial implant, including chin implants, of which the most feared is infection. When infection occurs around a chin implant, its salvage by any variety of maneuvers is frequently unsuccessful. Removal of the infected implant is always the definitive treatment. Re-implantation at a 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...