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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...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of...
One of the considerations of the soft tissue aesthetics of the lower face is that of the masseter muscle. Being one of the larger muscles of the face, it has a large surface area covering the bony jaw angles. (ramus of the mandible) Despite its important functions of jaw opening and closing and in Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant provides the most significant augmentative changes to the lower third of the face. Designed from the patients’s 3D CT scan, the entire shape of the lower jaw from angle to angle can be changed by altering the shape of its inferolateral bony contour. These type of implant changes are 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 Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is an often used intraoral procedure for various amounts of chin augmentation. It is effective at moving the anterior end of the chin bone for a variety of dimensional changes. The osteotomy line used to down fracture and mobilize the bone is obliquely oriented and extends from below the tooth Read More…
Background: Most concerns about the need for jawline augmentation are focused on the horizontal and width dimensions. Making the lower jaw more prominent is done by this 2D approach. The main need for adding verticality to the jawline is most commonly done in the posterior jaw angles where a high mandibular plane angle has Read More…
Background: Custom facial implants have understandably gone through an evolution that past quarter century…like all technology has. In the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of a custom facial implant was one were the few standard implants that existed was modified intraoperatively by handcarving. Or a solid block of material was hand craved into a Read More…
Background: The aneurysmal bone cyst is a well known but rare bony lesion that is known to affect the lower jaw. Its name is actually a misnomer as it is neither a cyst or a a vascular aneurysm. Rather it is an osteolytic bone lesion which is characterized by being comprised of serum or Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetry is common in both young and older people. Most of the time these asymmetries are not large and are usually well tolerated. It is commonly said that most people have facial asymmetries and this is perfectly normal. It is even said that some degree of asymmetry adds character to the face Read More…
Background: There are variety of conditions that can cause bony deformities of the angle region of the lower jaw. Abnormal growth from congenital/developmental causes, traumatic injuries and elective jaw surgery can all adversely affect the shape of the jaw angles. By far in my experience elective osteotomies in orthognathic surgery cause the greatest array Read More…
Background: Changing the shape of the lower face is most effectively done by skeletal augmentation. While injectable filers and fat has a valuable role to play in enhancing facial volumes, they are not effective ‘perimeter’ augmentation methods. They are too soft to create a sharp line of demarcation which is what is needed in 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...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of...