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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...
The shape of the forehead is affected by various hard and soft tissue components. The forehead is framed by the hairline superiorly, the brows inferiorly and the bony temporal lines to the sides. The projection of the forehead is controlled by the thickness of the frontal bone and its degree of convexity and smoothness. The Read More…
Forehead reshaping consists of a variety of augmentative and reductive procedures to affect on overall appearance change. In some cases they were done together but, more times than not, they are done as isolated forehead augmentation or forehead reduction procedures. Bony reduction can be done on the brow bones and the frontal bone of the Read More…
One determinant of a good facial appearance is balanced facial thirds. Ideally the face is divided into vertical thirds of which are equal in proportion. The upper third of the face is the forehead whose height is determined by the visible skin surface between the frontal hairline and the eyebrows. Given its open skin surface Read More…
Background: The forehead is typically a flap surface above the brow bones. While the angulation of the forehead varies amongst individuals it is still a generally flat surface. The mid and upper forehead is prone to bossing (too much convexity) but usually has few other specific abnormalities. One type of forehead contour abnormality is that Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies one-third of the face’s surface area. It also has a lot of animation effects from changes in eyebrow position and the creation of various horizontal and vertical wrinkle lines. But short of motion the shape of the forehead and the surrounding hair locations also impact the impression of one’s facial appearance. Read More…
The forehead occupies a major portion of one’s face, up to one third of its vertical height. But when the forehead occupies too much real estate of the face, greater than one-third, it can be too overwhelming and look out of proportion to the rest of the face. By definition the vertical length of the Read More…
Background: The shape of the frontal skull bone known as forehead is an important aesthetic facial feature. Since the forehead occupies one-third of the visible face it is not surprising that it has significant aesthetic value even though it seems like it is just a flat a amorphous structure. In reality there are very distinct Read More…
Frontal bossing is a not uncommon forehead condition marked by variable amounts of upper frontal bone protrusion. This can appear as smaller bilateral concentric horns or as an overall larger convexity of the whole forehead. Such frontal bone development throws the whole forehead out of aesthetic balance for either male or female and becomes an Read More…
Background: The shape and size of the forehead is an important aspect of facial aesthetics. It is well known that it should compose up to one-third of the vertical facial height. When exceeding this one-third proportion the forehead can look too large or be too dominant. The most common reason for a large forehead is Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead is largely controlled by the development of the frontal bone of the skull. Frontal bossing is the term given to describe a prominent bulging forehead. This is usually most manifest in the upper forehead which can project outward beyond the wide profile of the brow bones in some cases. Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...