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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 forehead occupies a full one-third of the face’s surface area. Its borders are the hair-bearing areas of the frontal hairline superiorly, the eyebrows inferiorly and the temporal hairline laterally. The frontal hairline determines the vertical length of the forehead. The eyebrows provide facial expression and create a emotional appearance. The forehead bone determines Read More…
Background: While chin augmentation is commonly performed and numerous implants styles and sizes exist to perform it, the patient’s gender should have an influence in the process. While men tend to prefer stronger and more square chin augmentation results, most women prefer a more subtler result with less augmentation and a rounder or even tapered Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants have proven to be a reliable method of treating a wide variety of head shape issues. In their preoperative design considerable thought goes into how to best achieve the patient’s desired outcome. But despite this design effort, no one can accurately predict the outcome and how the patient will perceive their Read More…
Background: Nasal fractures are common and most frequently cause mediolateral bone displacements from an oblique force from the side. These are repaired in a straightforward fashion by relocating the nasal bones in a reverse direction that the injury has caused. This approach can be successful due to the underlying support of the maxilla and orbital Read More…
Background: Aging affects all areas of the face but the eyes develop the first and often some of the most profound age-related structural changes. The repetitive movement of the upper eyelids eventually creates redundant skin, that when significant enough, may hang down near or on the lashes. While the lower eyelids also develop loose skin, Read More…
Background: The most common form of a short lower face is of the horizontal dimension. The chin is seen to be short and is positioned behind the forward position of the lower lip to varying degrees. Depending upon its severity there may be a malocclusion of the Class II variety. All methods of such jaw Read More…
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…
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...