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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...
A custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the lower third of the face from an augmentation standpoint. By expanding the entire inferolateral contour of the mandible, it provides a three-dimensional change. But with this change comes the necessity of a postoperative recovery period which involves swelling and a period of time before Read More…
Background: Aesthetic evaluation of the lower third of the face is historically based on the concepts of the facial thirds. This is a frontal view concept evaluating the vertical relationship/ratios of the upper, middle and lower facial thirds. This linear measurement can detect a short lower third of the face which is aesthetically treated by Read More…
V-line jaw reduction is a lower facial contouring procedure that is popular in Asian patients, although not limited exclusively to them. By the intraoral method through which most of these surgeries are done, it is challenging to get good symmetry and the desired amount of reduction of the entire jawline on both sides. As a Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant provides the greatest contour change possible to the lower third of the face. That is not surprising due to its sheer size and surface area coverage of the mandible. The design process is impressive and empowering as it is possible to design about any size and dimensions that the patient Read More…
While chin implants were the original jaw augmentation method, the development and emergence of jaw angle implants now provides an option for the rest of the jaw as well. The combination of standard chin and jaw angle implants can be done to create a total jawline enhancement. Placed at the three ‘corners’ of the jaw, Read More…
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 chewing 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 only 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…
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 roots 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 a 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...