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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 term ‘jaw augmentation’ is a general term that does not connote exactly what type or amount of lower third facial change is being done. A total change or augmentation of the lower jaw is termed ‘jawline augmentation’, indicating that the augmentation involves the entire jawline from angle to angle and crosses the chin Read More…
Background: Chin implants are still the most commonly performed facial implant procedure. While done in women as well as in men, they are probably less often done in women. This is evidenced by looking at the large array of commercial chin implant options which are available of which most are of what is known as Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly, also known as cranioscoliosis, is one of the most recognized skull shape abnormalities deformities. It has a relatively common occurrence amongst all the possible congenital skull deformities. While it affects the entire skull shape its greatest effect and patient concern is often on the back of the head. Asymmetry and variable amounts of Read More…
Background: As part of many orthognathic surgery procedures, a siding genioplasty is often done. While not providing any functional/occlusal benefit, it is a cosmetic procedure done for facial profile enhancement. While working in concert in some cases with a sagittal split ramus osteotomy both work to push the chin projection forward While the sagittal split Read More…
Background: Excessive chin projection can occur in numerous dimensions and often involves multiple dimensional excesses concurrently. But isolated chin excesses or single dimensional macrogenias (large chins) do occur and presents as either in the horizontal or vertical dimensions. Vertical macrogenia can be effectively treated through two different approaches unlike many other types of large chins. Read More…
Background: While the ears are on the opposite sides of the head and can only be simultaneously viewed in the front view, this does not mean that people don’t care about ear asymmetries. The ears can be asymmetric for a lot of different reasons from how much they stick out to differences in their size Read More…
Background: The presence of a discernible brow bone is a classic male forehead feature. The existence of a brow bone break, where the edge of the underlying frontal sinus development stops and the flatter forehead begins, is what separates men from most females. How significant this brow bone break should be in men, which is Read More…
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty becoming a nose reshaping operation with more predictable outcomes took a major step with the introduction of an open rhinoplasty approach. Being able to see the cartilage and bone structures that are to be manipulated offers an obvious aesthetic advantage. And to do so with a negligible columellar scar adds Read More…
Background: The ear is comprised of many individual shapes created by the shape of the underlying cartilage. It is unclear as to the functional significance of many of these cartilage prominences. But the most anterior one, the tragus, has a clear functional role in the deflection of sound waves back into the external auditory canal. Read More…
Background: The traditional approach to total jawline augmentation has been the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. While this ‘three-point’ approach can be effective in the properly selected patient, it is fraught with potential aesthetic sequelae such as implant asymmetries and an inability to achieve the desired jawline shape outcome. This is somewhat 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...