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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: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done by a variety of materials which can be divided into rigid and semi-rigid physical properties. Silicone is the most commonly used of the materials as its semi-rigid forms allows for introduction through smaller incisions, can be designed in almost any shape and thickness and has feathered edges. These Read More…
Background: Rib removal is the final and definitive procedure for waist narrowing when the patient is seeking a result beyond what standard body contouring surgery can achieve. The traditional rib removal surgery focuses on the bottom two or free floating ribs as they lie adjacent to the waistline and their cartilaginous tips are the point Read More…
Background: Midface augmentation consists of a variety of standard implants from that of the cheeks, tear troughs and nasal base. (premaxillary and paranasal) What custom designs bring to this area of the face is infraorbital, infraornital-malar and a variety of broader coverage midface implants. The infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant is the most common of all the Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to variety of aesthetic shape deformations, some of them flattening and others of a protrusive nature. For the protrusions there are some well known occipital bone-based ones including knobs and buns. These are circular enlargements that have a midline origin to them. They are essentially enlargements of Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant is one of the most frequently performed and powerful of all custom facial implant designs. Its wrap around shallow augments the entire jawline in a preformed implant design. While such an implant design is undergo complete control of the surgeon and patient there is no way to know for sure Read More…
Background: The large surface area of the forehead creates a major aesthetic component of the face. While lacking the projecting topographies of the lower 2/3s of the face it nonetheless has a few significant features that define it. These include the frontal hairline superiorly, the eyebrows/brow bones inferiorly and the shape of the entire frontal Read More…
Background: Despite the common use of chin implants as an aesthetic facial surgery, some of the important technical aspects of the procedure remain misunderstood or at least underappreciated. The most basic is that an implant may be perfectly placed but if it is the wrong implant style or size then its placement becomes irrelevant. The Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty is one of the most well known aesthetic procedures in plastic surgery and has been performers in various ways for almost one hundred years. It is the original facial reshaping procedure as it focuses on a structural change to a prominent facial feature…the bone and cartilages of the nose. The nasal skin is Read More…
Background: Like many body structures aging affects their appearance over time. The male scrotum is no exception. As an envelope of skin, fascia and muscle that surrounds the dangling testicles the influence of a lifetime of friction between the thighs and the effects of gravity are bound to affect the scrotal appearance. But the biggest Read More…
Background: Chin implants remain the most commonly performed aesthetic facial augmentation procedure and recent reports indicate that it is increasing in popularity. As a single implant it has been called the most powerful facial enhancement procedure when judged by effect vs time of surgery to perform it. While it is performed in both genders it 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...