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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: Microtia is a well known congenital ear deformity where the external ear has variable amounts of underdevelopment. It is not that rare of a facial deformity affecting about 1 in 10,000 births. While it can occur in both ears, it more commonly affects one side of which it occurs far more frequently on the Read More…
Background: Augmenting skull or head shape deficiencies used to be fairly impractical. The traditional method of cranioplasty surgery involved long scalp incisions and the tedious application of bone cements to add shape to the head. Besides the scar there was a very high rate of contour irregularities and a lack of adequate augmentation effect. This Read More…
Custom skull implants have become in my practice an effective and low risk strategy for many aesthetic skull shape concerns. Compared to any other implant used above the shoulders, skull implants are comparatively large which is appropriate given the size of the skull. But a small implant just isn’t going to work for many head Read More…
Background: Reshaping of the central part of the face is done by changes to the nose and lips. Whether through a rhinoplasty or various lip augmentations or lifts, the shape of these two midline facial structures have a major influence on one’s appearance whether it is seen from the front or side views. Rhinoplasty and Read More…
Background: While skull surgery has been around for more than a century, such surgeries have been done for reconstructive reasons to replace missing portions or correct significant congenital skull shape deformities. Aesthetic skull surgery, however, is much more recent and consists of reducing prominent bony areas or improving its shape through augmentation materials. The use Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation with implants has a long successfully history. While standard chin implants work for many patients, significant chin deformities do not fare as well. The shape and size of off-the-shelf implants are made for more modest to moderate aesthetic deficiencies primarily in the horizontal direction. In the more severe horizontally deficient chin, which Read More…
Background: Lower facial asymmetry is most commonly associated with the shape of the jawline. While patients often present with chin asymmetry, closer inspection often reveals that it extends back along the jawline as well. With the chin asymmetry the jawline on the longer chin side is lower and conversely it is higher on the shorter Read More…
Background: The outcome of breast augmentation is affected by many variables that go far beyond the implant itself. The shape and position of the breast mound and its nipples profoundly impact how they will look when the implants are placed behind them. Too often patients believe that the enlarging their breasts will correct many of Read More…
Background: The buffalo hump deformity is a well known collection of fat in the back of the neck. It is a seemingly unusual place to develop a fatty collection given that it is a body area that is associated with becoming ‘fat’. But there is a congenital fat pad in the upper back known as Read More…
Background: The popularity of rhinoplasty is a combination of the prominence of the nose on the face and the successful outcomes possible from the procedure. It is hard to know the exact gender distribution that undergoes this type of facial surgery but it seems like more females than males have the surgery. While the nose 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...