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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 scrotum is thin external sac that is composed of skin and muscle. (aka a fibromuscular cutaneous sac) It has two testicles that have separate compartments divided by a septum of tissue. This septum is more robust than most realize usually being 5 to 6mms thick. These two compartments are evidenced externally by the Read More…
Background: Correction of brow ptosis is one of the most common rejuvenative procedures of the upper third of the face. There are a wide variety of techniques to do so most of which are based on a superior lifting concept. Limited incision endoscopic techniques dominate but also frontal hairline and now rarely performed coronal excisional Read More…
Background: The custom infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant is a novel midface augmentation method. Unlike standard cheek and tear trough (infraorbital) implants, this custom implant ties together the front and side of the midface for an overall largely horizontal skeletal expansion effect. This is particularly relevant as many midface deficiencies are often a combination of the two Read More…
Background: Brow bone reduction is commonly performed for female forehead feminization and the treatment of overgrown male brow bones. (masculine forehead softening) The two techniques for brow bone reduction are burring and bone flap setback, each of which has their indications. But by far the bone flap setback is the most effective form for most Read More…
Background: While brow bone reduction surgery has been around for a long time it has gained more recent popularity because of the emergence of facial feminization surgery. (FFS) But before facial feminization surgery brow bone reductions were done in men although far less commonly than FFS today. The use of a bone flap setback is Read More…
Background: The concept of clavicle reduction osteotomies for shoulder narrowing is straightforward and fairly linear. A segment of the clavicle bone is removed, the two ends are put together and are held in place by plates and screws so they can heal. But there are numerous details of the procedure which if not precisely done Read More…
Background: Chin implants have the longest history of all aesthetic facial implants and is not rare to occasionally come across a patient with an ‘old’ chin implant from many decades ago. In the vast majority of these cases it will be a silicone implant and it is possible to see various iterations of earlier generation Read More…
Background: While pectoral implants are the male equivalent of female breast implants there are some obvious and not so obvious differences between them. The obvious differences are that in women the goals is to create a round mound that is only partially under the muscle. (if a submuscular approach is being used) It is not Read More…
Background: All three facial thirds can be aesthetically augmented with implants. But there are major differences between the upper third of the face than the lower two-thirds. By history, availability of off-the-shelf implants and clinical experience augmentation of the lower 2/3s of the face is well known with chin, cheek, jaw angle, paranasal, premaxillary, and Read More…
Background: The five surfaces of the skull are prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities. In theory all five surfaces could be equally affected by these shape deformations but that is not so. Three of the five skull surfaces are completely bony but the sides are covered with muscle. Since almost all skull 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...