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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...
Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of shape malformations by virtue of its multiple suture connections during development. Premature fusion of these sutures cause well known forms of head deformity known as craniosynostoses. While these classic forms of craniosynostosis are the result of near or complete premature fusion of these suture lines Read More…
Background: While many people think of the jaw when a facial structure is skeletally or structurally deficient, every other facial bone can also have visible hypoplasias as well. The orbital bones are no exception and their complex circumferential shape and the eyeball that lies within have unique clinical presentations of bony deficiencies. While many people Read More…
Background: When most people envision the type of patient who presents for aesthetic lower jaw augmentation, they would assume that the person has a noticeable short lower jaw…in essence a true jaw deficiency. While this is historically true and is still an accurate perception for some patients today, an increasing number of patients now present Read More…
Background: The concept of cheek implant augmentation has variable aesthetic meanings to different patients. Depending upon gender, ethnicity and one’s natural skeletal anatomy, cheek augmentation can not be a standard type of procedure where one general implant style fulfills all patient’s needs. Despite the numerous styles of cheek implant’s that are available today, they all Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty patients present with a wide variety of nasal shapes to be changed. While the preoperative anatomy may be diverse, the end goals that most patients desire are much more uniform. What patients consider to be desired nose shapes have consistent features among them. Men desire straight dorsal lines and a tip that is Read More…
Background: Patients that have major lower jaw deficiencies with malocclusions should be ideally treated by a combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery approach. This is particularly relevant when the patient is young. But some patients never seek treatment for their jaw deficiency until they are older or do not have the desire or resources to go through this Read More…
Background: Much of a preoperative breast augmentation discussion focuses on implant size. To determine what implant volume would create the desired increase in breast size, a variety of methods have been advocated from the rice test, volumetric sizers and 3D imaging. All have their merits and to those who use each one they are staunch Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant is a powerful augmentation method. As it envelops the entire lower jaw from angle to angle its total external surface area coverage of the bone provides a true 3D change. While this augmentation effect can be impressive, its size also makes it the hardest facial implant to place. Through three Read More…
Background: Cleft lip and palate is a common and well known congenital deformity. It is typically perceived in its fullest presentation with a complete cleft through the lip, alveolus and palate. Even the nose is not usually perceived as part of the cleft, in the compete cleft the nose is also severely affected both internally Read More…
Background: Size dominates much of the preoperative discussion in breast implant surgery and what volume of implant may achieve it. But right behind size are concerns and desires for postoperative breast shape. The shape of the breast is defined by fullness of the upper and lower poles and the position of the nipple-areolar complex on Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Five Essential Steps in Sliding Genioplasty Surgery
The sliding genioplasty is a well known surgical procedure to change...
Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of The Head
Background: The shape of the skull has varying degrees of convexity...