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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: Tummy tuck surgery is the most aggressive form of abdominal reshaping. By removing large segments of skin and fat, improvement of the waistline shape is inevitable. The horizontal excision pattern ensures that there is a vertical tightening effect on the central abdomen. Differing lengths of the excision pattern will determine how far to the Read More…
Background: Liposuction is the most commonly performed body contouring procedure. Both by the number of body areas and their overall surface area treated, liposuction is widely performed around the world. With all of the surgical fat removal done the most common body area treated is the abdomen and waistline. Regardless of the patient size liposuction Read More…
Background: The role of the custom jawline implant in facial augmentation is mainly to create dimensional changes to the jawline that standard preformed chin and jaw angle implants can not accomplish. It also creates a unique effect by uniting the chin and jaw angles to create a wrap around effect. But one of its other Read More…
Background: There are many procedures that can be done to rebuild the skull including bone replacement and external bone reshaping. (cranioplasty) With today’s computer technology large segments of the skull can be replaced by a variety of materials including HTR, PEEK and PEKK materials. While there are surgeon advocates for all of these materials, I Read More…
Background: Breast sagging can be treated by either the use of a lift or an implant. A lift works by removing sagging skin and physically moving the nipple upward. Any lifting effect of an implant comes from tissue expansion with an outward and upward push. In many cases of breast sagging both a lift Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done for a wide variety of deficient skull shape concerns. Changes can be made in skull height, skull width and frontal and posterior skull projection. In rare cases and with the use of a first stage scalp tissue expander, the entire skull can be augmented through a circumferential effect. Read More…
Background: A tracheostomy is a life-saving airway procedure. Done from infancy to seniors it is the introduction of a breathing tube through the midline neck skin into airway to bypass whatever obstruction lies above it. The breathing may be left in a matter of days dependent on the medical condition it is treating. When it Read More…
Background: Otoplasty is the most form of ear reshaping surgery. Even though the term otoplasty is a general one it is typically associated with treating the protruding ear. The ear that sticks out is due to excessive conchal cartilage, lack of an adequate antihelical fold or both. Changing this undesired ear shape is done by Read More…
Background: Rib removal surgery is commonly associated with waistline reduction through removal of portions of ribs #11 and 12. (and sometimes #10 as well) This creates a width reduction of the anatomic waistline by removing some of the lateral ribcage support which allows the soft tissue to ‘fall in’ more. This is historically and most Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation is a common body contouring procedure. Of the many pictures of breast augmentation results on the internet, the vast majority are of Caucasian type. The main difference with Hispanic or Latin women is their increased propensity to develop dark pigmentation at incision/scar sites. While they almost never develop hypertrophic or keloid scars, 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...