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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: Excessive flatness of the back of the head can affect women and men equally. While shorter hairstyles reveal the shape of the back of the head most clearly, women with longer hair can be similarly affected and use various hairstyling methods to camouflage it. There are various materials by which the back of the Read More…
Background: The shape of the forehead is well known to be gender-specific. Women usually prefer smooth convex foreheads with no obvious brow bone prominences. Conversely, men usually desire evidence of a brow bone with a break into the mid-forehead with a more retroclined shape into the upper forehead. While I have seen males and females Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation can be done by using either an implant or actually moving the chin bone. A chin implant is by far the most common genioplasty method because it is simpler, less invasive and easily reversible. While the sliding genioplasty method can be done alone, it is almost always used when other facial Read More…
Background: Tummy tuck surgery is one of the most popular of all body contouring surgeries. While it usually results in a hip to hip scar in a traditional tummy tuck surgery, most women consider this a very acceptable trade-off for the abdominal flattening result obtained. While the abdominal scar can have its own aesthetic issues Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty surgery has been around for almost a hundred years and has its recent origin from European surgeons who attempted to reduce the large ethnic humps on the bridge of the nose. While rhinoplasty surgery has evolved tremendously and now focuses on a more complete approach to rhinoplasty, hump reduction is still a major Read More…
Background: The vast majority of tummy tucks can and are performed through a curved horizontal lower abdominal incision. (as well as around the umbilicus) There are, however, alternatives to this traditional excisional orientation in the right patient. A handful of patients may benefit from a vertical excisional approach. When a vertical tummy tuck is typically Read More…
Background: While the concept of inserting a breast implant seems easy, there are numerous aesthetic considerations of which to be aware. Besides the nipples, the inframammary fold (IMF) or lower breast fold is the most important anatomic landmark of the breast. The IMF creates a clear demarcation between the breast and the chest/abdomen which lies Read More…
Background: The flat back of the head is one of the common aesthetic skull deformities. It usually originates from either a genetic predisposition or a deformational effect of in utero or post birth head positioning. (occipital plagiocephaly) The flatness can be on just one side or both. (bilateral) When it occurs bilaterally there are aesthetic Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation continues to be popular amongst women of all ages and ethnicities. Amongst certain female patients that have more pigment in their skin, the risk of hypertrophic scarring or hyperpigmentation of the surrounding skin is a legitimate patient concern that may mar an otherwise excellent breast size enhancement. In the Hispanic female, their Read More…
Background: Tummy tucks are uniformly successful at reshaping the abdominal wall through the removal of excess skin and fat. While the amount of abdominal wall tightening is one criteria by which tummy tucks are judged, they are equally critiqued by the scars that are needed to create it. The fear of most tummy tuck patients 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...