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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 shape of the nose is controlled completely by the shape of the osteocartilaginous framework underneath the skin. Nowhere on the nose is this more apparent than on the nasal tip. The complex scrolled shape of the lower alar cartilages and how they meet in the middle controls the shape of the lower third Read More…
Background: The replacement of a congenitally absent or surgically removed testicle is done historically by a saline implant. Borrowing from saline breast implants, a small fluid-filled shell is used as the testicular replacement. This has been the standard device used as a testicle implant since the early 2000s. It is currently the only FDA approved Read More…
Background: The infraorbital rim is the lower eye socket bone that accounts for the bottom half of the bone that encircles the globe. It is formed by the union of the zygomatic bone laterally and the maxillary bone medially. Between the two bones is a suture line that may or may be present in adults. Read More…
Background: The desire for wider or more open eyes to improve one’s expression is not uncommon. Most of the people who seek such eye surgery have an abnormal eye appearance known as ptosis. This is where the upper eyelid hangs down lower than normal and covers up some of the iris or the colored part Read More…
Background: The bilateral cleft lip and palate deformity poses major reconstructive challenges. At its root cause is the shortage of tissue that has resulted from the cleft as well as scar tissue that has occurred from prior surgeries. The bilateral cleft nose has many typical features from a wide and blunt nasal tip, an underdeveloped Read More…
Background: The width of the head is controlled by the thickness of tissues above the ears. This consists of skin, fat, muscle and bone. Of these four tissue elements, it is surprising for most people to know that the muscle layer is the thickest of all of them. The posterior belly of the temporal muscle Read More…
Background: The forehead occupies a full third of the human face and sometimes than that based on the location of the frontal hairline. While the forehead does not draw one’s attention, like the lower two-thirds of the face due to the sphincteric motion of the eyes and mouth, its broad surface can not be overlooked. Read More…
Background: The use of silicone implants for breast augmentation has now been done since 2006 when this implant filler material was re-introduced as an implant option. One of the stated restrictions with their use was that patients had to be 22 years or older. This was a position imposed on the manufacturers as issued by Read More…
Background: Skull defects occur in children for a variety of reasons. But one of the most common causes is early surgery for congenital skull deformities. When reshaping large portions of the skull their complete healing depends on the natural osteogenic capability of the underlying dura. This is usually very robust at very young ages but Read More…
Background: Few faces are perfectly symmetric and most of us have some noticeable differences between the right and left sides. Such facial side differences are usually well tolerated or may not even be known. We all recognize that ‘no one is perfect’ and everyone has a little bit of facial asymmetry which is seen within 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...