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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 size of the implant chosen is the single most important decision from a patient’s perspective. More time is spent on this aspect of the surgery than other factors such as implant type, pocket location, implant profile or even the surgeon performing the procedure. How to match implant size to the patient’s goals, however, Read More…
Background: Most scalp reconstructions are done for the need to recreate a full-thickness scalp layer. Replacing a full-thickness scalp wound requires all layers of the scalp and must be done by either tissue expansion or rotation flaps of adjacent scalp or the microvascular transfer of distant tissue. Most partial thickness scalp defects are missing some Read More…
Background: The smile is one of the most important forms of facial expression. The perception of the entire face changes as soon as one sees someone smile. But the time when one is smiling is far more limited than when one is expressionless. While an expressionless face is supposed to convey no emotion that is Read More…
Background: While cleft lip and palate is a widely recognized orofacial deformity, it is less commonly appreciated that it has a wide spectrum of presentations. It occurs in basic categories of combined cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft lip and isolated cleft palate, but every possible variation in between these basic categories occurs. Its Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation patients present with a variety of breast shapes that may necessitate additional procedures other than just the placement of an implant.Such is the case with sagging of the breasts. While many patients think that an implant will lift a sagging breast, this is not so. While it is true that nipple positions Read More…
Background: Chin implants are well known to induce a variety of tissue reactions around the implant site. A surrounding encapsulation of scar tissue is always seen as occurs in every synthetic implant placed in the body. ‘Bone resorption‘ is often cited as an adverse reaction to chin implants but this is a misinterpretation of the Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the cheeks is a frequently performed aesthetic facial reshaping procedure. While once only capable of being performed with implants, it is now more commonly done with synthetic fillers and fat. But the only assured permanent cheek augmentation result from a single effort is with the use of implants. Like all implants placed Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is one of the oldest facial reshaping procedures. It has been performed for over fifty years and just about every conceivable material has been used to perform it. But historically and currently silicone implants have been preferred due to the wide variety of styles and sizes that are commercially available as well Read More…
Background: Skull augmentation today has evolved to augment any area of the head, whether it is the forehead, top, back or sides. This has become possible due to the use of 3D CT scans and implant designing software. This allows the implant design to be done before surgery and also permits a smaller scalp incision Read More…
Background: The deficient or deformed back of the head is the most common aesthetic skull deformity. Lack of sufficient projection and a more convex contour are the main reasons patient seek a surgical solution to these concerns. Such aesthetic skull concerns, in my experience, occur equally in women and men. Women find that they have 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...