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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 lips can be affected by several shape features that have either occurred naturally or are the result of aging. One undesirable aspect of the lips is when their corners turn down. While often developing as a result of aging being weighed down by falling facial tissues, some people have it naturally. Lip volume Read More…
Buttock augmentation has evolved over the last two decades in two different volumetric treatment approaches. Injectable fat grafting has become the most common method of buttock augmentation due to the combined benefits of reductive body contouring and gluteal enlargement. Concurrently, buttock implant techniques have evolved with intramuscular pocket locations and improved implant materials and sizes Read More…
Aesthetic changes to the width of the shoulder can be done by a variety of surgical techniques. For shoulder width reduction only one surgical method exists…clavicular reduction osteotomies. Conversely shoulder augmentation can be done by three different methods which are performed at different shoulder locations. Deltoid muscle augmentation can be done by either injectable fat Read More…
Injection fat grafting is used all over the face to treat a wide variety of soft tissue, and sometimes hard tissue, contour deformities. Its advantages are that it is an autologous material that can be applied without open surgery through small bore cannulas. Its disadvantages are that the injected fat survival is not assured and, Read More…
Scleroderma is a collection of autoimmune connective tissue diseases that are characterized by chronic inflammation and tissue atrophy. In general terms, there is localized scleroderma and systemic sclerosis whose main difference is as their names suggest. The exact mechanism as to why it occurs is not known although much of the cellular responses that leads Read More…
The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial reshaping procedure to help slim the cheek area. This area of facial fat removal is unique because it does not require liposuction to do so. In fact it is the only facial and body area where the defatting is done by direct excision rather than vacuum aspiration Read More…
Background: The buccal lipectomy is a well known facial defatting/cheek slimming procedure. Being the largest encapsulated reservoir of fat in the face, its surgical removal is always impressive given the sheer volume of fat removed. Most buccal fat pads average in the 3ccs range. Regardless of the facial slimming effect, most buccal fat pads are Read More…
Forehead augmentation is most reliably done using different bone-based augmentation materials. Whether it is bone cements or a custom implant design made from the patient’s 3D CT scan, they reliable create forehead shape changes with a strong push off of the bone’s surface. Despite its reliability, implant-based forehead augmentation is not for everyone due to Read More…
Injectable fat grafting is widely used for many aesthetic and reconstructive indications. Considerable debate and research has gone into how to best create predictable fat graft volume survival. Every aspect of harvest, preparation and injection technique has been evaluated with varying opinions amongst surgeon evaluators on what is best. One method of improving fat graft Read More…
Fat transfer is tremendously popular as a material option for facial voluminization. Almost any patient has adequate donor material and as an autologous graft there are no real medical downsides to using it. The face is a well vascularized recipient site so, in theory, injected fat should survive well. But as we all know such 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...