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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...
Lip augmentations is most commonly done by hyaluron-baed injectable fillers and has been so for over the past two decades. While very effective with immediate results they are not permanent and, as a result, some patient do develop filler fatigue. It is not the most pleasant facial site to inject so it is understandable why Read More…
Background: Augmentation by numerous methods is by far the most common aesthetic lip procedure. Going the other way, as in lip reductions, is a much more uncommon lip size change. But there are patients who feel embarrassed by the natural size of their lips and desire them to be reduced. In addition to its infrequency Read More…
Background: Implants are the only assured permanent method of lip augmentation. The current style of lip implants is the best version of such implants that have been used to date. Like many other silicone facial implants they offer the ability to be easily inserted as well as removed. But this important quality is also fraught Read More…
Lip augmentation is most commonly done by injection techniques. While effective lip injections are limited by either the temporary duration of their effects or the unpredictability of injected fat survival. Other materials have been implanted into the lip (dermal grafts/substitutes) but they all suffer similar outcome fates. Despite the limited effects of injectable lip fillers, 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…
Background: Lip augmentation has been a facial aesthetic procedure that has been done by non-surgical and surgical methods for many decades. While it is done mainly today by injectable fillers or fat injections, a permanent implant approach has also been done both historically as well as today. Over this time period different materials have been Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is the historic location for injectable fillers since the early 1980s and remains as one of the top injectable filler sites even today. There are a wide variety of injectable fillers and manufacturers but the use of hyaluronic-acid (HA) based fillers is primarily used in the lips as they have the lowest Read More…
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…
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…
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...