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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...
Despite that lip augmentation is sought by many women (and a few men), the perfect procedure to accomplish it remains elusive. A wide variety of treatment options exist to achieve bigger lips from injectable fillers and fat to surgical manipulations of the vermilion and skin excisions. Injectable fillers are by far the most common lip Read More…
Background: There are many options for lip enhancement today of which injectable fillers is by far the most commonly used. But for a permanent change in size, surgical options must be considered. Two basic types of lip lifts exists done either from under the nose (subnasal lip lift)or from the edge of the top of Read More…
The use of implants for lip augmentation is a surgical procedure that adds permanent volume to the lips. It is done as an office procedure under local anesthesia if done alone or in the operating room under general anesthesia if it is included as part of a collection of other plastic surgery procedures. The Read More…
These explanations are intended to improve your understanding of the lip implant procedure that has been discussed with you. Please read them carefully and understand that this list includes many, but not all of the different outcomes from this surgery. Please feel free to ask Dr. Eppley any further questions regarding your surgery. ALTERNATIVES Read More…
The face develops many visible signs of aging. But none are more problematic or pesky than that of upper lip lines or vertical rhytids. Such lip lines are very bothersome to women as they not only suggest an older lip but also cause problems with lipstick, often bleeding into the lower end of the Read More…
Background: Cleft lip and palate deformities are a well recognized birth defects that affects around 1:1000 births. In the U.S., they commonly undergo a primary repair of the cleft lip in the first three to six months of life. Outside of the U.S., American plastic surgeons are well known to travel all over the Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is a popular procedure that is most commonly done with the use of injectable fillers. Any of the family of hyaluronic-acid based fillers offers an immediate improvement in which the material can be placed in a variety of lip locations to create both increased size and/or enhancement of various lip features. Read More…
The lips on a face seem relatively uncomplicated, seemingly two simple strips of red-colored tissue placed in a horizontal orientation as the gateway to the mouth. But their shape is actually more complex than it seems as evidenced by the named descriptions of different anatomical points. (cupid’s bow, philtral columns, commissures, vermilion, vermilion-cutaneous junction) Each Read More…
Lip augmentation is one of the most popular minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures of the face. Done almost exclusively with injectable fillers, it produces instantaneous augmentation of the vermilion-cutaneous junction or the lip body proper. Of last year’s nearly 2 million injectable filler treatments performed in the U.S., a significant percent of them was for lip enhancement. Read More…
One of the most distinguishing and desired features of the upper lip is that of its cupid’s bow shape. The double curve of the upper lip is called the cupid’s bow because it resembles the bow of Cupid, the Roman God of love laid on its side. At the two heights or bends of the 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...