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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: Custom jawline implants are the most powerful augmentation method of the lower third of the face. By increasing the outer contours of the lower jaw throughout its entire length, the continuous surface area coverage can have a powerful effect. Unlike standard implants which are often viewed in one dimension (e.g., chin implants and their Read More…
Background: While everyone has an earlobe its shape is highly variable. Earlobe shapes vary significantly and are influenced by gender, age and overall ear sizes. While earlobe reshaping can be done by itself, it most frequently becomes part of an otoplasty ear reshaping. Ears that stick out frequently have earlobes that do also which can Read More…
Background: Head width reduction is commonly perceived as a bone thickness problem. But the reality is that the posterior temporal muscle makes an equal, if not greater contribution, in many cases. As a result, muscle removal has proven to be a highly effective and successful procedure with no adverse sequelae for head width reduction. Posterior Read More…
Background: While people have varying amounts of fat in their face, loss of a significant amount of it creates an unnatural and unhealthy look. Known medically as facial lipoatrophy, there are a variety of well known causes from genetics, extreme weight loss, medications side effects effects and certain diseases. Its variable presentations has created a Read More…
Background: Custom facial implants have understandably gone through an evolution that past quarter century…like all technology has. In the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of a custom facial implant was one were the few standard implants that existed was modified intraoperatively by handcarving. Or a solid block of material was hand craved into a specific Read More…
Background: Custom designed facial implants provide a great degree of facial change. The larger surface areas of custom implants and preoperative control of their shape and dimensions allows for a major change in facial shape if desired. To do so augmentation of the midface line (infraorbital-malar) and entire jawline are often done together as Read More…
Background: While men have greater brow bone prominences than women, there are cases where the brow bones do overgrow. When they do so the brow bone appear too prominent (Neanderthal-like), the forehead appears retroclined and one’s appearance is harsh or angry looking. While there are different degrees of brow bone hypertrophy in men, ultimately all Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentations are sought by individuals who have a deficient or flatter area of the skull. One of the most common areas to augment is a flat back of the head or crown area. This is the one aesthetic skull deficiency that is equally shared by both men and women. While women have Read More…
Background: Facial lipoatrophy is a well known condition where extensive fat is lost in the face. It is seen primarily in the loss of the large buccal fat pad with subsequent concavities developing under the cheekbones and in the temples. While it occurs all over the subcutaneous layer of the face, which contributes to the Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a common facial enhancement procedure that provides increased horizontal projection. This helps bring many such affected faces into better balance by lengthening the lower jaw to be more in line with the upper two-thirds of the face. While being the most common aesthetic chin deficiency, horizontal underprojection is not the only 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...