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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...
Background: The chin and neck are related more than just by anatomic proximity. The prominence or angularity of one affects the appearance of the other one. Aesthetically it is difficult to separate one from the other. A short chin makes the neck appears less defined. Conversely a neck that is more obtuse makes the chin/jawline Read More…
Getting more defined cheekbones in either men or women can be challenging. In some patients they have decent cheekbone structure but their face is too full to show them well. In these cases facial defatting (buccal lipectomies, perioral liposuction) is often done to reduce the fullness below the cheekbones. In others they may have a Read More…
Like the body the face has numerous fat collections/compartments that lie either right under the skin or within or around deeper structures. Unlike the body, however, the fat locations in the face are more limited and less easily accessed for removal. The most well known facial fat collection is the buccal fat pad which can Read More…
Tracheal Augmentation A prominent Adam’s apple or thyroid cartilage creates a central neck bulge that is a distinctively male trait. Its reduction, of course, is the one of the most well known facial feminization procedures. Conversely the trachea can be augmented in the FMS patient by a special implant designed to create a more prominent Read More…
While not a classic feminizing procedure, facial defatting or slimming can be a useful facial reshaping technique for those patients who have naturally rounder faces or chubby cheeks. The three facial areas that can be successfully reduced by different techniques are the two primary cheek areas, the buccal fat pads and the perioral mounds, as Read More…
The ability to reduce facial fat and deround or sculpt a face by fat removal is limited to a few procedures. The most common procedures to do so on the face are buccal lipectomies and perioral liposuction. While there are companion procedures and are often done together they affect different parts of the cheeks. A Read More…
Buried penis is a well known congenital anomaly in which the penis is normal in size but outwardly appears small. It goes by numerous other names such as concealed penis or inconspicuous penis. But regardless of the name in many patients the full size of the penis is hidden beneath the prepubic skin and fat. Read More…
Background: The facial profile consists of several protruding structures that are easily seen and analyzed. Facial profile prominences include the brow bones, nose, lips, chin and neck. (cervicomental angle) Several of these structure have unique relationships to each other and are commonly employed in aesthetic surgery as ‘tandem procedures’. The two most commonly paired facial Read More…
The general approach used for liposuction is much like reducing a mountain to a less convex or flatter shape. The goal is to remove fat in a manner that results in a smooth outer surface across the area being treated with a shape consistent to the body area being treated. For most body areas this Read More…
Background: Non-excisional surgical fat removal, aka liposuction, has been the most popular body contouring procedure for the past four decades. Even with the onset in the last decade of non-surgical fat removal technologies (e.g., Cool Sculping, Vanquish) the number of patients undergoing liposuction surgery has not decreased. This is a testament to the fact that 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...