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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: Testicular implants have been around for decades and have had their primary use as replacements for a lost testicle.Whether due to failure to descend or removal due to trauma, infection or a malignancy, the absence of a testicle produces scrotal asymmetry which can negatively affect some men. The placement of a testicular implant offers Read More…
Background: The back of the head is exposed to numerous deforming forces both in utero as well as after birth. Given that laying on the back of the head is necessary to some degree in many non-vertical positions, the early influences of positioning in utero and early in the first year of life on soft Read More…
Background: The shape and protrusion of the brow bones has aesthetic implications for both men and women. While men can have some brow bone protrusion as a masculine facial feature, women should have a smooth and non-prominent brow bone shape that lacks any visible brow bone break up into the forehead. Brow bone reduction is Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants provide a new method for changing the shape of the head through their ability to add volume in a controlled preoperatively designed fashion. By definition this makes the scalp tighter. That is certainly true initially although some scalp relaxation undoubtably occurs later. This is well known to me as some skull Read More…
Background: The projection of the forehead plays a significant role in the appearance of the upper third of the face. If it is sloped too far backward, it will make the brows appear more prominent and create a high or elongated hairline. If it is too far forward it appears too prominent and oversized for Read More…
Background: The shape of faces is influenced by the genetics of one’s ethnicity. This is well known and seen in the recognized major ethnicities around the world. In the Asian face, for example, the proclivity is for more width then projection in the entire craniofacial skeleton. This is evidenced in the tremendous popularity of the Read More…
Background: Correction of chin deformities is based on what dimensions of it need to be changed. The most common chin deficiency is horizontal for which either an implant or a sliding genioplasty is used to treat it. It may or may not be accompanied with a vertical deficiency as well. One of the least common Read More…
Background: Osteomas are well known benign bony growths which can occur from within, on or even outside of the bone in the surrounding soft tissues. In the craniofacial skeleton, osteomas usually occur as a peripheral lesion arising from the periosteum. While there are multiple etiologies for them the most recognized is that of trauma. The Read More…
Background: Flatness on one side of the back of the head is known as occipital plagiocephaly and can occur for a variety or reasons. In utero positioning and infant sleep positions are two of the most common etiologies. Regardless of its cause its presence is of aesthetic significance only when seen in an adult. While Read More…
Background: At its most simplistic level, aesthetic skull augmentation uses an implant to push off the outer bony cortex to create an overlying soft tissue expansion the scalp. Like every form of aesthetic face and body augmentation the ability of the soft tissues to stretch and be displaced outward is ultimately what creates the change 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...