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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...
Facial contour problems arise from a variety of reasons including birth defects, traumatic injuries, cancer, certain diseases such as HIV, the aging process and certain aesthetic concerns. Provided that the underlying bone structure is normal, treatments are directed at the concept of adding volume. Volumetric addition today is often done by fat grafting. Transplanted Read More…
Fat injection breast augmentation (FIBA) has been recently given a cautious note of approval by a task force of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Fat injections has gained widedpread use over the past decade for facial applications, including adding volume to sunken or depressed areas of the face and plumping up the lips. While Read More…
While fat grafting has a long history in plastic surgery, its use as an injectable filling material is much more recent. Fat injections today are a well recognized technique for use in the face, hands, and buttock for soft tissue filling and augmentation. Fat injections into the breast have historically been much more controversial Read More…
Today we have multiple options for reducing unwanted fat areas. Liposuction, and its recent technological advances such as Smartlipo or laser liposuction, is the surgical or invasive approach. Minimally invasive techniques, such as Lipodissolve, offer a non-invasive approach. Both methods have been heavily advertised and promoted…often leaving most potential patients confused. Having performed a Read More…
Lumpectomies for the treatment of breast cancer is an increasing method of therapy that spares much of the breast. With earlier detection of breast cancer today, less invasive and better breast conservation is now commonplace. Lumpectomies, however, leave indentations and crater-like dents after the cancerous tissue has been removed. Because of the size and location of Read More…
The Brazilian butt lift is not a lift in the classic sense. No skin is excised and subsequently lifted. Unlike what the name suggests, it is a type of buttock enlargement procedure which creates a fuller and rounder buttock shape. Fat is removed from selected areas of your body (often above and below the buttocks), Read More…
The search for an effective treatment for cellulite is ongoing and is far from reaching a consistent solution. Various methods of treating cellulite have been espoused including liposuction, fat injections, endermologie and other mechanical disruption methods, injection lipolysis, subcutaneous carbon dioxide infusions, herbal and dietary supplements, and numerous creams and lotions. While some of Read More…
Buttock augmentation surgery continues to grow in popularity. One of these techniques is the Brazilian Butt Lift which helps to enlarge and reshape the buttocks to a more prominent and youthful appearance. Ironically, it is not a buttock lift in the traditional sense but a method of fat injections to do the reshaping and the Read More…
Facial wasting is a very specific condition of the face in which specific areas of fat are resorbed and, in its severest form, is unique to the HIV patient taking retorviral medication. Nobody knows exactly why fat from the faces specifically goes away on people taking anti-HIV drugs, but a significant percentage of such patients Read More…
The official birthday (200th) of Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president from1861 to 1865, occurred on February 12, 2009. Many states that had formerly observed Lincoln’s birthday have created a joint holiday to honor both Lincoln and our first president George Washington, known as Presidents Day. It coincides with the Federal holiday officially designated Washington’s Birthday, 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...