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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...
Fat grafting has been around for over fifty years but has reached present day popularity due to the introduction of liposuction for harvest, droplet injection techniques and the discovery of adipose-derived stem cells. Fat injection grafting is mainly used to create more volume in the face and body for a variety of aesthetic and reconstructive Read More…
The Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) is one of the most popular body contouring procedures today. Using the patient’s own fat which is harvested by liposuction and then concentrated, it is injected into the buttocks to increase its size. It is not really a buttock lift per se but one could argue that the increase in Read More…
Fat grafting preceded by liposuction harvest is a cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery procedure that is here to stay. Despite the ease of fat availability in most people and the ability to virtually put it anywhere by injection, it is plagued by two as yet unsolved problems. It survival is, at best, unpredictable and Read More…
The most popular method of buttock augmentation is by fat injections. Known as the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL), it is singularly responsible for the dramatic rise in the number of buttock augmentation procedures performed. While fat is not the most reliable method of adding buttock volume, an implant is, it offers a natural material Read More…
The re-emergence of fat grafting and its now widespread use can be credited to many factors. But one of the most significant of these is the realization that fat is a ubiquitous connective tissue which contains a plethora of stem cells. Many of the improvements in tissue quality seen after fat grafting have been credited Read More…
Breast augmentation is one of the top cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed today. It has a relatively long history and its success is based on using either a saline or silicone gel breast implant to achieve its breast expansion effect. Like many medical devices, it is tremendously successful but not complication free. With breast implants Read More…
Fat grafting is an emerging and versatile technique in plastic surgery. While it can be used just about anywhere on the body, one of the trendiest areas for fat injections is the breast. Whether it is for reconstruction of breast defects or cosmetic enlargement, fat has become an accepted method of soft tissue volume enhancement Read More…
Belly fat has been an historic scourge of the vast majority of the American population for a long time. Much of the popularity of liposuction can be traced to the desire to reduce unwanted belly fat. But to illustrate that even bad things have a silver lining, fat has been shown to be a Read More…
Autologous fat grafting has become a widely used technique in plastic surgery for both reconstructive problems and aesthetic concerns. Even though it is extensively used and touted, one of the realities of fat grafting is that it is not a completely predictable method of soft tissue augmentation. Volume loss occurs to variable degrees in Read More…
Systemic Sclerosis is a chronic connective tissue disease that is characterized by subcutaneous fat atrophy, replacement by scar and poor vascularity. It has two main types, diffuse and limited. Limited or linear scleroderma most commonly affects the face and the extremities. As it occurs on the face it is better known to plastic surgeons as 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...