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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 back of the skull, known as the occiput, often differs in shape from the other skull bony surfaces. Due to the attachments of the thick neck muscles, the inferior surface of the occiput can have bony ‘irregularities’. Such raised bony areas are a result of the ‘form follows function’ anatomic principle where the Read More…
Background: Chin implants are the oldest form of bone-based augmentation and still the most common facial implant done. While effectively providing increased chin projection it is really an isolated jaw augmentation that only changes less than 1/3 of the entire jawline outer surface area. For this reason there is growing interest in a more complete Read More…
Background: Make chest enlargement or gynecomastia has a variety of different presentations. How much breast tissue enlargement, the amount of loose skin on the chest wall and the position of the nipple all influence the type of gynecomastia reduction technique that will be used. Most gynecomastia techniques employ either direct excision by an areolar incision, Read More…
Background: Chin augmentations are successful performed by standard implants in the vast majority of patients. This is due to the moderate nature of most chin deficiencies which are in the range of 3 to 7mms for sufficient aesthetic improvement. The concept of standard sizes of available implants is to address the range of aesthetic deformities Read More…
Background: Patients seek augmentation of their head shape for a variety of reasons. For some it is correction of a flat or deformed head shape. For others it is to make a smaller head larger with a concomitant improvement in its shape. But regardless of the reason the limitation of the magnitude of the change Read More…
Background: The unilateral cleft lip and palate is the most common orofacial deformity. While the cleft through the lip and palate is the most obvious component to it, adjacent structures are also affected. This is very apparent in the nose with the classic depressed and widened nostril on the cleft side. The correction of the Read More…
Background: Reduction of a prominent thyroid cartilage is technically known as a chondrothyroplasty. It is better known as a tracheal shave and it gets its name because the prominence is indeed shaved down with a scalpel. This is possible because the thyroid prominence is cartilage which only gets much harder later in life. The tracheal Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries come in an almost endless variety of bone and soft tissue compositions. Many are congenital/developmental in origin and some are iatrogenic. (caused by surgery or trauma) Evaluation of facial asymmetries is done through a combination of physical, pictorial and 3D CT scanning. While not a big surface area of the face, orbital Read More…
Background: The facelift is the workhorse of the treatment of lower facial aging. Changing the neck angle and smoothing out the jawline is what the operation primarily accomplishes. But it is not an ‘all or none’ type procedure. Facelift techniques can be modified, and should be, for the extent of the facial aging that is Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant provides the greatest contour change possible to the lower third of the face. That is not surprising due to its sheer size and surface area coverage of the mandible. The design process is impressive and empowering as it is possible to design about any size and dimensions that the patient 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...