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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...
Jaw angle augmentation with implants has become an increasingly popular aesthetic facial procedure for both men and women. It is performed through intraoral incisions that are located in the back of the mouth in the vestibule opposite the second and third molars. This provides access to the subperiosteal plane under the masseter muscle over the Read More…
Background: While augmentation of the lower jaw has historically been perceived as that of the chin at the front of the jaw, that has been a limited perception of what is possible and often needed. Augmentation of the back of the jaw, the jaw angles, affects two-thirds of the lower jaw and can have just Read More…
The placement of implants on the facial bones, like implants placed anywhere in the body, causes well recognized tissue responses. The encapsulation of the implant by scar, known as a capsule, is the body’s method of separating ‘self from non-self’. This capsule also serves to lock the implant down, creating a fixed and immoveable implant Read More…
Jaw angle implants are typically inserted through an intraoral route. This allows a subperiosteal pocket to be developed under the masseter muscle in a scarless fashion. But it is a procedure that is prone to implant asymmetry for an often not appreciated reason. The wording end of the implant is the furthest away from the Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the jaw angle region of the lower face can only be done on a permanent basis by an implant. It can be achieved with standard jaw angle implants or as part of a total custom jawline implant. But no matter how it is performed it involves the creation of a subperiosteal pocket Read More…
Jaw angle implants are to the back of the jaw like chin implants are to the front. They have become more popular for facial augmentation as the aesthetic value of the back of the jaw, or the entire jawline, has become recognized as creating a such enhanced lower third of the face. No longer should Read More…
Jaw angle implants as well as complete jawline implants are highly effective methods for augmentation of the lower third of the face. They either enhance the effects of a prior or concomitant chin augmentation or create an entire enhancement of the whole lower face as a stand alone implant procedure due to complete jawline bone Read More…
Background: The shape of the jawline consists of various anatomic zones that has numerous dimensions. While the most common aesthetic concerns are a chin that does not have enough horizontal projection or jaw angles that are not wide enough, there are many other types of aesthetic deformities of the jawline. One such undesired jawline shape Read More…
The sagittal split osteotomy of the lower jaw is a well known orthographic surgery operation. Splitting the ramus of the mandible into two sagittal half allows the lower teeth that lies within the distal bone segment to be repositioned while maintaining maximal bone contact with the proximal bone segment. The split mandibular ramus goes on Read More…
Background: The shape of the lower face is primarily influenced by the size and dimensions of the mandible or lower jaw. Being the only moveable bone on the face it has a unique shape due to the biomechanical stresses placed on it as well as having to contain up to sixteen teeth that pass loading 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...