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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: Dorsal augmentation is done for a wide variety of structurally deficient noses. When the amount of dorsal augmentation is small, the patient’s septum or ear harvest sites will produce adequate volume. But when the augmentation requirements are significant, rib grafts are needed if an autologous approach is desired. Rib grafts have a long history Read More…
Background: The most common approach to a complete jawline augmentation would be with the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. This can work well for many patients but requires proper implant selection and placement to be effective. While this sounds straightforward it often is not so simple. Chin and jaw angle implant styles Read More…
Background: The temporal region, seen externally as the side of one’s head, extends from the side of the eye to the back of the head. The ear lies approximately in the middle of this area and is the only non-smooth topographic feature of the temporal region. It is composed primarily of the temporalis muscle which Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty remains as the original and still the most popular of all facial reshaping procedures. By various changes to the underlying osteocartilaginous structure, the skin redrapes over it and reveals a new nasal shape, provided good skin retraction occurs postoperatively. While changing the bone and cartilages of the lower two-thirds of the nose has Read More…
Background: Orthognathic surgery provides functional (occlusal) and certain aesthetic benefits in some patients. It primary role is almost always functional where it be for improved jaw function or in the treatment of sleep apnea. While cutting and moving the jaw bones has a long history of a high rate of successful bone healing, the rearrangement Read More…
Background: The concept of ribs being removed for a slimmer waist is always a controversial subject on the surface. The perception of what the surgery is and how it is done and works is almost always misunderstood. The name ‘rib removal’ is an inaccurate description of it and further leads to these misunderstandings. Unless the Read More…
Background: The face is well known to be divided into aesthetic thirds. This aesthetic concept is important in both frontal and side views but with different dimensional effects. A lesser appreciated proportional measurement is that of facial fifths in the frontal view which relates to various transverse and vertical relationships. From this perspective the outer Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation has been done with a variety of implant and graft materials for almost seventy-five (75) years. Like most chin implants done today silicone was the original synthetic material used although it was quite different. Rather than being a solid silicone material it was a gel-filled implant with a similar concept as that Read More…
One of the most common facial lines that are formed with aging due to repetitive muscle activity are the vertical glabellar lines. These are vertical skin creases that develop in between the eyebrows and are classically called the ‘11s’ because most people will develop a symmetrically pair of them. While this is the most common Read More…
Background: While the most popular cosmetic buttock surgery performed today is augmentation, other reshaping procedures do exist. One such procedure is the lower buttock lift. While surgeons may try and treat a lower buttock ptosis or overhand by trying to fill it with fat, this is rarely effective. Other treat such overhangs with liposuction in 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...