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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 buttocks, like any other bodily structure, is subject to the changes of aging, use and gravity. Buttocks lose volume and develop sagging with age and more prominently with large amounts of weight loss. This flattening effect may occur in isolation but often involves the infragluteal fold as well. Buttock tissue can fall over Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of cheek looks that patients want from cheek augmentation surgery, most commonly achieved used implants. While typically done in patients that have flat or weak cheek bone prominences, contemporary cheek augmentation patients often seek improvements in their midfacial shapes that do not have any really inherent structural deficiencies. One Read More…
Background: Besides rhinoplasty surgery for the nose, chin augmentation is the second most common facial reshaping procedure. What the nose and chin share in common is that they are both central projecting features of the face. While there are a variety of chin reshaping procedures that can be done, augmentation is by far the most Read More…
Background: The shape of the head has importance to many people whether they have good hair cover or not. It should be no surprise that men who lack good hair cover or shave their heads make up a greater percent of aesthetic skull augmentation than that of women. At the least their head reshaping goals Read More…
Background: The shape of the back of the head is affected by many factors. While flatness and asymmetries are well known to be caused by intrauterine and postnatal head positioning, limiting growth expansions in the compressed area, the origins of bony protrusions are less clear. In a study published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Read More…
Background: Jaw asymmetry is one of the most common forms of perceived facial asymmetry. Whether it is localized to the chin or extends back along the jawline to involve the two jaw angles as well affects the magnitude of the deformity. The long length of the body of the mandible and the size of the Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is the medical term used to describe a diagonal asymmetry of the head. It is meant to refer to a flatness on either the back or front of the head. But in reality there is always a contralateral flattening opposite the dominant flat part due to the way the skull develops. Hence plagiocephaly Read More…
Background: A seroma is a well known postsurgical phenomenon that every surgeon from every discipline has seen and treated. This fluid collection typically occurs when a pocket has been created in surgery for access or implant placement. It is the creation of a pocket or dead space as it is often called that provides a Read More…
Background: Testicle implants are most commonly used when a testicle has been removed. (testicular replacement) But there are patients who desire larger testicles even with having an existing pair. (testicular enhancement) In these cases the decision is whether implant are made to wrap around the existing testicles (bivalved implant design) or to simply place implants Read More…
Background: Flattening of the back of the head is one of the common aesthetic skull deformities. Many of these are mild and are likely caused by how one slept as an infant. But others are more severe and are caused by a genetic tendency based on ethnicity or familial tendencies or even from lambdoidal synostosis. 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...