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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: Men who request forehead augmentation fall into two general types, a forehead augmentation that does not include the brow bones and forehead augmentation that does include them. The custom forehead implant is the superior method to achieve good aesthetic outcomes with either type of forehead augmentation but the footprint in their designs are obviously Read More…
Background: All three facial thirds can be aesthetically augmented with implants. But there are major differences between the upper third of the face than the lower two-thirds. By history, availability of off-the-shelf implants and clinical experience augmentation of the lower 2/3s of the face is well known with chin, cheek, jaw angle, paranasal, premaxillary, and Read More…
Background: The forehead is the most visible part of the face and skull because of its large non-hair bearing surface area. While its coverage area is broad it does not have a flat shape nor does it have a completely vertical slope. In men the forehead usually has a slight backward angulation particularly at the Read More…
Background: One of the primary benefits of custom face and skull implants is that they allow for augmentations possibilities that exist by no other surgical method. The results obtainable exceed anything achievable with bone cements or even bone repositioning. (ff that is even possible for the intended result) While the bone surface coverage is made Read More…
Background: There are distinct well known shape differences between the female and male forehead. While it is a broad near featureless facial area it still has gender specific characteristics. Compared to the male forehead the female forehead has a more vertical slope to it (partially because it lacks any significant brow bone prominences) and has Read More…
Forehead augmentation with an implant is a proven method to produce an affective and permanent shape change to the broad surface area of the upper third of the face. Females generally prefer a vertical forehead inclination with a more convex forehead shape. This aesthetically creates a youthful and and more pleasing upper facial appearance. To Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead has well known gender differences. Male foreheads have a slight backward slope, visible brow bones both medially and laterally as well as more width with potentially visible temporal lines at the sides of the forehead. These are forehead characteristics that are far more difficult to surgically create than the Read More…
Background: The shape of the male forehead is dominated by three physical features. The presence of brow bone protrusions, a slight backward slope to the forehead and an overall more square shape are the main characteristics of the masculine forehead. In profile view the amount of brow bone projection and the slope of the forehead Read More…
Background: The male forehead has several distinct features from the projection of the brow bones inferiorly to the prominence of the temporal lines at its sides. Its largest feature, however, is the slope or angulation of the broad forehead surface. Unlike females where a more straight or close to zero angulation slope is desired, men Read More…
Background: There are numerous facial feature differences between men and women which can be separated by anatomic site. The foreheads eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin, jawline and lips all have specific gender specific shapes. The largest of these anatomic areas by surface area is the forehead which occupies more than a third of the total 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...