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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 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…
Background: One of the most popular facial reshaping procedures in the world, by patient numbers, is V-line surgery. This is a lower facial reshaping procedure to reduce the size of the jaw and give it more of a V-shape in the frontal view. It is done by two different types of bone reduction techniques, jaw Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant is the most powerful augmentation method of the lower third of the face. Its wrap around design changes the entire jawline in an angle-chin-ange distance. In essence the entire outer cortical border of the mandible is expanded. It is not surprising that its effect is more significant than three separate Read More…
Background: While the penis and scrotum lie in anatomic proximity, there is no aesthetic standard as to the size relationship between the two. While not described such a proportionate relationship between the two most certainly does exist although it is open to individual patient interpretation. A penis may be too ‘large’ for the size of Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is the most common facial reshaping procedure behind rhinoplasty. While most chin augmentations are done by an implant due to its ‘simplicity’ and ease of the procedure, it is not appropriate for all types of chin augmentation. An implant works best for pure horizontal augmentation that are of moderate amounts of change. Read More…
Background: In pediatric craniofacial surgery one of the most known procedures is that of cranial vault reconstruction. Done for craniosynostosis and other severe congenital skull deformities, it involves the extensive removal of misshapen skull bones and their immediate reconstruction in infants and very young children. The success of these procedures is based on the remarkable 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...