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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 one’s head is subject to a variety of normative values such as a circumferential measurement and percent of total body size. But regardless of numbers, the person’s interpretation of their head size is what is most aesthetically important. For those concerned about their head size, some people see their head size Read More…
Background: Cryptotia is a well known congenital ear deformity whose appearance is marked by loss (disasppearance) of the upper part of the ear. The upper pole of the ear is buried under the temporal skin to varying degrees. While the ear can be pulled out from underneath the skin it will return to its buried Read More…
Background: A well defined jawline is a desirous lower facial feature for both men and women. Such a look is usually when there is a smooth connection between the chin in the front and the jaw angles in the back. This also means that both the chin and jaw angle points have a visible presence Read More…
Background: Besides asymmetry the most adverse breast shape encountered in the preoperative breast augmentation patient is sagging. More medically known as ptosis this poses numerous issues including whether augmentation will improve or worsen teh sagging as well as overcoming the patient’s expectations, often erroneous, that implants will lift sagging breasts Breast sagging comes in a Read More…
Background: In an era where it is common to see an adult male with a shaved head or a very closely cropped haircut, the shape of the head takes on great aesthetic significance. Not only are large head shape issues glaringly apparent but small ones that would normally never be seen with a head of Read More…
Background: The size of one’s head or shape of the skull is usually congenitally controlled. While microcephaly is a pathologic skull development condition that restricts brain development, some patients have small narrow heads but not true microcephaly. Sometimes called ‘peanut heads’ and often having issues with wearing hats or helmets their head shape might be Read More…
Background: The classic debate, and sometimes an actual controversy, is whether chin augmentation is best done with an implant or by moving the chin bone. (sliding genioplasty) While patients and surgeons often try and compare them by their level of invasiveness, that is really an irrelevant and short-sighted thought process to that decision. That discussion Read More…
Background: A sagittal ridge skull deformity is most commonly perceived as its fullest expression with sagittal craniosynotosis in an infant. But there are greater numbers of patients affected by lesser or more ‘aesthetic’ sagittal deformities where the height of the sagittal crest and the degree of parasagittal depression along the sides is much less severe. Read More…
Background: Few women have perfectly symmetric breasts. While most women would acknowledge that anatomic fact, most women would prefer to not undergo an aesthetic procedure where their natural asymmetry becomes magnified. But this is exactly what can happen in breast augmentation surgery. Two symmetrically shaped and sized implants will merely enlarge what exists before surgery Read More…
Background: Buttock implants are the lone remaining option after fat injections for buttock augmentation. If one has enough fat, or even if it may be marginal, I advise patients to pursue autologous fat injections first because it is both natural and has not long-term side effects from the graft itself. But some patients are too 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...