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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...
The long upper lip can only be treated by shortening the skin distance between the base of the nose and the vermilion-skin border. The subnasal lip lift is the most known and commonly performed of all the surgical lip enhancement procedures to achieve this effect. Its appeal is that it places the incision under the Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most commonly performed injectable aesthetic facial procedures. While very effective and instantaneous it does require repeated injections and costs to be maintained. Some patients will eventually develop the phenomenon of filler fatigue and either stop having the injections or search for a permanent surgical alternative. The two surgical Read More…
The goal of lip augmentation, or to make the lips bigger, is to expand the visible vertical height of the dry vermilion. This is most commonly done by the use of injectable fillers. Fillers work well if there is enough initial vermilion that it can expanded up and outward. But even if injectable fillers work Read More…
Background: Lip reconstruction from congenital deformities (cleft lip), trauma and cancer resections uses a variety of long standing plastic surgery techniques. When the upper lip tissues are grossly deficient or highly scarred, an historic and valuable reconstruction method is that of the cross-lip flap. (Abbe flap) By transferring unscarred normal vermilion and skin from the Read More…
Injectable Fillers Enhancing the shape and size of the upper and lower lips can be one of the most powerful gender facial changes. Though small in size their impact on gender identification is significant. A variety of surgical and non-surgical lip augmentation procedures exist. The most common form of lip augmentation done is with the Read More…
Of all of the lip augmentation strategies, lip advancements are the most effective for very thin lips but the least commonly performed. Also known as vermilion advancements, as that is what they literally do, they physically move the vermilion outward. As a result they create much more exposed vermilion from one mouth corner to the Read More…
The bilateral cleft lip deformity is challenging on many levels due to both loss and disruption of normal lip tissues. While the primary cleft lip repair in a baby is about creating a more normal looking cupid’s bow of adequate length and thickness (actually creating an intact upper lip), the older bilateral cleft lip patient Read More…
Background: Synthetic injectable fillers have their origins in the use for lip augmentation. The desire for fuller lips by injections dates back to the 1980s and, while many different compositions of fillers have been subsequently used, they all can provide an immediate change in lip size albeit temporary. While the development of injectable fillers has Read More…
Background: Aging affects all aspect of the face, albeit in varying degrees and at different times of life. One of the most disliked aspects of aging in women is the development of vertical lip lines. While typically believed to occur primarily in smokers, there are many women who develop them who are not smokers. And Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is done by a variety of non-surgical and surgical methods. By far the use of injectable fillers dominates these methods and is highly effective for many patients. The success of injectable fillers is dependent on having enough vermilion tissue so it can be adequately expanded. As a plastic surgeon once said 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...