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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...
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…
Fat injections have enjoyed widespread use over many areas of the face and body. With the ease of graft harvest and injection there are few areas that can not be injected. As a result, it is fair to say that fat injections are now done from ‘head to toe’. Fat injections or pedal fat grafting Read More…
Migraines headaches affect a significant percent of the population for which there is no one single effective treatment. One advance in the the treatment of migraines has been the discovery of peripheral compression points at sensory nerve exits of the skull and the refinement in the techniques for their surgical decompression. In the properly selected Read More…
Buttock augmentation by fat injections (Brazilian Butt Lift) is one of the fastest growing body contouring procedures over the past decade. By combining a reductive liposuction harvest with recycling of that fat into an immediate buttock augmentation effect accounts for its popularity. But as the autologous procedure has become commonplace, complications have occurred that are 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...