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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...
Custom deltoid implants can be considered for visible deltoid/shoulder hollowing after shoulder replacement, but they are contour-restoration devices, not functional muscle replacements. Key points: After reverse shoulder arthroplasty, deltoid quality matters because the deltoid becomes the main elevator of the arm. Deltoid atrophy or nerve injury can affect function. A solid silicone custom deltoid implant Read More…
Soft tissue atrophy is a known complication of corticosteroid (steroid) injections, especially when they’re placed superficially or repeatedly in the same area. What it is: It’s a localized loss or thinning of subcutaneous fat and sometimes skin, leading to a visible depression or “dent” at the injection site. Why it happens: Corticosteroids can: Inhibit fibroblast Read More…
AlloClae is a structural adipose filler developed by Tiger Aesthetics — a new type of cosmetic injectable.Unlike traditional fillers (e.g. hyaluronic acid) or typical fat-grafting (which requires harvesting your own fat via liposuction), AlloClae uses donor-derived adipose tissue (processed fat tissue) that’s sterilized and purified for safe injection. The processed tissue retains key structural elements Read More…
Fat grafting by injection is one of the most common aesthetic surgeries performed for a wide variety of soft tissue augmentation or contouring effects. While there are many variables involved in the success of such injection procedures the first one is adequate donor tissue. In cases of lack of donor tissue or exhausted donor sites Read More…
There are a lot of great benefits to a sliding genioplasty chin augmentation procedure but, like all procedures, it has its own unique complications and adverse postoperative sequelae. One of these postoperative issues that can occur is lower lip tightness. Like the upper lip the lower lip is very flexible through the depth of the Read More…
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…
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...