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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: An improved jawline or support to the lower third of the face is most commonly done using implants. Standard chin and jaw angle implants have been available for three decades in a variety of styles and sizes. While effective for some patients an unconnected three implant jawline augmentation approach has potential issues of malpositions, Read More…
Background: Parry-Romberg syndrome is a rare but well known type of facial atrophy. It presents well after birth in children, teens or young adults with the onset of progressive atrophy of facial tissues. While it theoretically can affect any part of the face, I have seen a disproportion of cases that involve the upper third Read More…
Background: The facelift procedure makes for major anti-aging changes but is not all encompassing rejuvenation procedure. Its effects are limited to the neck and jowl areas and in some types even the cheeks. But the one area that a facelift can never affect is the mouth or central facial region. It does not matter how Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is the most common facial reshaping procedure that employs an implant to create its effect. Most people seek it to enhance the projection of the lower face as a stand alone procedure or as a complement to other facial procedures. (e.g., rhinoplasty) The outcome success is fairly high for chin implants, citing Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant provides the most significant augmentative changes to the lower third of the face. Designed from the patients’s 3D CT scan, the entire shape of the lower jaw from angle to angle can be changed by altering the shape of its inferolateral bony contour. These type of implant changes are only Read More…
Orthognathic surgery produces significant facial skeletal changes and bite correction. For many patients who undergo orthognathic surgery that operation addresses all of their facial concerns and no further surgery is required. But by the nature of where and how the maxillary and mandibular osteotomies are done, contour irregularities along the jawline can occur as well Read More…
Background: Aging of the face occur in a variety of ways and ultimately affects every facial structure. But not every facial structure is affected equally or at the same time. While it is true that the very earliest signs of facial aging occur around the eyes, changes along the jawline and neck are often not Read More…
Background: A facelift is one of the most recognizable cosmetic surgery procedures in all of plastic surgery. Despite its familiarity to the public, it is a procedure that has a lot of misconceptions about it. One of the most common is the extent of facial involvememt. Often perceived as involving the full face, a facelift Read More…
Background: Congenital skull defects occur in a wide variety of presentations. In essence it is any contour irregularity that results in a noticeable loss of contour projection. Most congenital skull defects are not full-thickness. Rather they are partial thickness with inadequate bine thickness compared to the surrounding bone. One of the smaller congenital skull defects Read More…
Background: Chin deficiencies are typically described by the relationship of the most projecting part of the chin to the lower lip in the profile view. While this is a good aesthetic proportion to use, chin deficiencies may be associated with other physical findings as well. As chin deficiencies become greater soft tissue issues can develop 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...