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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: Reduction or augmentation of the brow bones is typically thought of as a horizontal change in their prominence. Such movements create more or less of a brow bone prominence most easily seen and appreciated in a lateral or side view. Such degrees of horizontal brow bone prominence is very gender-specific and is the motivation Read More…
Background: The wide variety of nose shapes that exist around the world have been attempted to be classified by multiple approaches. One type of nasal shape classification, known as leptorrhine, mesorrhine and platyrrhine, are based on the nasal indices. The nasal index is the ratio of the widest part of the nose to its length Read More…
Background: After fifty years breast implants have gone through many evoutions and filler material and shell designs. In silicone breast implants the latest design innovation is that of the shaped or anatomic implant. It is also called a tear drop breast implant as well. Like that of a natural aging breast a greater percentage of Read More…
Background: Breast implants provide a volume enhancement to the breasts that in many cases will last a lifetime. While no breast implants last forever, most women choose to replace them when that need occurs. But a few women eventually choose to remove their breast implants due to problems such as capsular contracture, pain and implant Read More…
Background: Like the rest of the face the brows and forehead tissues do fall or go south with age. Besides the horizontal forehead lines and vertical glabellar wrinkles, the lowering of the brows is the most noticeable feature of aging of the upper third of the face. Sagging of the brows, as defined by where Read More…
Background: Like the rest of the face, the appearance of the forehead is very gender specific. A female forehead usually has three specific components to it. First there is no perceptible brow bone ridge or brow bone break into the forehead. It is smooth as it ascends from the supraorbital rims into the upper Read More…
Background: A strong jawline is always viewed as a favorable facial feature in a man. This desirable male facial feature dates back thousands of years and is of no less significance today. Once can debate as to why the development of the lower jaw and its attached musculature is so appealing for men, but jawline Read More…
Background: The normal rounder shape of the skull can be altered for a wide variety of reasons. One of the most common reasons for skull deformation is congenital or genetic. Usually this affects one or several of the cranial sutures creating a variety of fairly classic skull shape deformations. But there are a whole host Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is the most commonly performed jawline enhancement procedure. It is also along with rhinoplasty the most common facial bone reshaping operation. Placing an implant over the end of the chin bone is conceptually simple. But the wide variety of chin implant styles and sizes demonstrates that the aesthetics of chin augmentation is Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty encompasses a wide variety of bone and cartilage reshaping techniques to change the external appearance of the nose. Bone and cartilage can be reduced in size or reshaped from its present form. In addition, a variety of autologous, allogeneic or synthetic grafts can be added to create nasal augmentative changes. But the one 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...