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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 center part of the upper lip has the most complex anatomy of the perioral region. With vertical philtral columns and a horizontally oriented Cupid’s bow, there is a ‘valley’ that lies between them. This upper lip concavity does not have a specific name but can be called the philtral dip or the central Read More…
Background: The development is a complex interplay between multiples independently bone plate sites. This combined with the influence of various muscle and facial attachments makes for irregular surfaces around the base of the skull. One such common bony protrusion site is the inion or occipital knob on the back of the head. While everyone has Read More…
Background: One distinct male feature is the of a prominent brow bone at the lower end of the forehead. It is one of many facial features that distinguishes males from females. It extends over the eyes with a horizontal projection, has a brow bone break before heading up into the forehead and has a slight Read More…
Background: Aesthetic chin deficiencies are common and most are not associated with a superior occlusal abnormality. But the converse is almost always true….when an occlusal abnormality exists there almost always is a chin deformity. Everyone knows that when the lower jaw is significantly underdeveloped the chin will be correspondingly horizontally short. And this is best Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetry has highly variable presentations. But in many cases a smaller jawline on the affected side is seen. While this is typically perceived as a smaller jaw angle area, closer inspection by 3D CT scan analysis will usually reveal that the entire jawline is deficient from the chin posteriorly back to the jaw Read More…
Background: Synthetic injectable fillers have their origins in the use for lip augmentation. The desire for fuller lips by injections dates back to the 1980s and, while many different compositions of fillers have been subsequently used, they all can provide an immediate change in lip size albeit temporary. While the development of injectable fillers has Read More…
Background: The webbed neck is an uncommon congenital neck deformity that is largely an aesthetic concern. Medically known as pterygium colli deformity, they are skin folds that run from the base of the skull behind the ears down to the shoulders. It occurs in a variety of well recognized medical conditions such as Turner, Noonan Read More…
Background: One rare source of lower back pain is known as costo-iliac impingement syndrome. As the name indicates this is where the lower ribs run into and rub against the the top of the hips. (iliac crest) This anatomic derangement is also known by other names such as iliocostal friction and rib tip syndrome. Given Read More…
Background: The well known facelift operation affects both hard and soft tissue. It improves the shape of the neck as well as provides increased smoothness among the jawline. It does both because of superolateral soft repositioning helping to unmask a once better defined jawline that has become partially obscured by soft tissue redundancies. The one Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants are a very effective method of increasing various outer contours of the skull. Whether it is for correcting deficient areas of the skull or to increase its external surface for improved shape or size, the use of a 3D CT scan allows preoperative implant designing. In such designs considerable thought goes 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...