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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 loss of a testicle can occur for many reasons and can present as a more recent or long-standing absence. It is far more common in my experience to see men that have been missing a testicle for years or decades as opposed to just a few months from its removal. The absence of Read More…
Background: Mant types of aesthetic breast ‘deformities’ present in the breast augmentation patient. Issues such as breast asymmetry, sagging, wide sternal spacing, lateralization of the breast round and horizontal nipple asymmetries are the most common. Each present their own challenges and potential aesthetic distractions from an ideal breast augmentation result. One potential aesthetic nipple concern Read More…
Background: While chin augmentation by any method dominates aesthetic chin surgery, there remans a need for chin reduction even if its overall demand is less. While the need for chin reduction surgery is less, this does not mean it is easy or more successful than chin augmentation surgery. In fact the exact opposite is true…chin Read More…
Background: The youthful neck in a male has few surface landmarks to make it distinguishable. Men will almost always have some laryngeal prominence which is gender specific as most females do not. This laryngeal prominence is known as the Adam’s apple and it occurs in men because the hormonal influences make the angle of the Read More…
Background: What defines a masculine face is a well defined skeletal structure. This skeletal structure involves the facial bones that have a natural linear or convex shape (cheeks and jawline) as opposed to those that have a natural concavity. (maxilla and pyriform aperture) The more prominent that the cheeks and jawline are the more masculine Read More…
Background: The most commonly performed aesthetic ear procedure (not including the repair of earlobe tears) is a s setback otoplasty. Done for correction of the protruding ears, various cartilage manipulations are done on the back of the ear to bend the cartilage and move the ear inward so its protrusion from the side of the Read More…
Background: Ptosis or structural sagging is known to affect many body areas, most commonly that of the breasts for which a classification scheme has been devised for it to help with treatment strategies for its correction. But sagging also affects the buttocks and is fairly well recognized. It most commonly develops as a result of Read More…
Background: The overwhelming priority question for most women who seek breast augmentation is what implant size should they choose. While the interpretation of breast size is highly subjective the end goal ultimately falls into descriptive categories, a natural or an augmented look. Women will generally fall into these two camps of breast augmentation results and Read More…
Background: The waistline is both an anatomic human feature but also a somewhat artificial one as well. Anatomically the level at or below the belly button crossing at the level of the iliac crests to the back separates the pubic, hip and buttock regions from the stomach and back. But the use of clothing and Read More…
Background: The size of one’s head or skull is largely genetically driven unless there are congenital brain or skull deformities involved. Head sizes vary greatly amongst all people and even amongst gender, race and geographic location. There is no known intellectual differences between the broad normal range of head sizes that occur. The interpretation of 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...