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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: There are eleven (11) different muscle areas that can be aesthetically enhanced by implants in the body. (minus the face) In the upper body this includes the pectoral (chest), bicep and tricep (upper arm), deltoid (shoulder), brachioradialis (forearm) and trapezius. (upper back muscles) Of all of these muscle enhancement sites the trapezius is the Read More…
Background: A well defined jawline, particularly for a male, is one of the most important facial features. There are many dimensional aspects to what constitutes a well defined jawline but in the end it is a more prominent chin and jaw angle appearance. What differentiates the enhanced jawline is the magnitude of these corner projections Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of aesthetic skull shape deformations that can be divided into either deficiencies or excesses. The excess category may be called protrusions and some are seen in profile where they violate the ‘Golden Arc’ of the skull. This arc is the shape and distance of the head from the nasion Read More…
Background: There are limited options for autologous or bony jaw augmentation methods. The most well known and used is the sliding genioplasty but this is limited to the chin. Lesser known is the chin wing osteotomy, touted as a complete jaw augmentation method but it is limited by the bone cuts to the anterior 2/3s Read More…
Background: There are numerous body contouring surgeries that transfemales may find of benefit. The most common ones performed are liposuction, BBL and breast, buttock and hip implant surgeries which are primarily soft tissue enhancements. These are also structural body modifications (aka hard tissue procedures) that are gaining popularity which include shoulder reduction by clavicle bone Read More…
Background: Amongst the numerous types of implants for aesthetic body augmentation the arms are the least commonly performed. Breasts, buttock, pectoral and calf implants make up the majority of augmentations while arm implants (shoulder, biceps, triceps) are done by comparison far less frequently. This is evidenced by lack of any FDA-appoved shoulder and arm implants. Read More…
Background: All areas of the skull can be aesthetically augmented with custom designed implants…the most effective method to do so. Augmenting the side of the head is unique, however, because most of it is covered by muscle and not bone. The most important landmark for the side of the head augmentation is the bony temporal Read More…
Background: There are a variety of raised bony skull areas that present aesthetic deformities which patients request to be reduced. One of the most common is the midline sagittal ridge. While it could occur anywhere along the length of the sagittal suture, and may even involve the entire length of the suture, but most commonly Read More…
Background: Augmenting the upper third of the face often requires a custom implant approach to be optimally effective. There are obvious gender differences in forehead augmentation in which many more men need brow bone coverage than do women. Females rarely need brow bone augmentation with the extension of the implant design in that area for Read More…
Background: Lipomas are a commonly occurring benign subcutaneous soft tissue tumor that occurs almost anywhere on the body. Many external appearing bumps or masses which feel soft can be presumed to be a lipoma. Once they appear they do tend to grow although such expansion is very slow and painless to the patient. A biopsy 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...