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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: Breast augmentation can be done by two types of implants, saline and silicone. Since silicone implants have become available again nearly eight years ago in 2006, the percentage of women undergoing breast enhancement receiving saline implants has been slowly declining. But saline implants will always be around as, at the least, they offer the Read More…
Background: While the shape of the skull is typically smooth, it is not rare that one may have various small contour deformities. These could be raised or indented areas depending upon their location on the skull. Many of these skull shape issues are related to their initial formation through the cranial sutures and their Read More…
Background: Combination internal nasal surgery to improve breathing and external nasal reshaping is commonly done. Technically this is known as a septorhinoplasty procedure. While the two nasal surgeries can be done separately and frequently are, one can always influence the other adversely. An overly done rhinoplasty can collapse the middle vault and narrow the internal Read More…
Background: Body builders and figure enthusiasts create chest and arm muscular volume and definition by cutting fat and inducing muscular hypertrophy. But what differentiates male and female bodybuilders from a chest standpoint is that females should have a breast mound while men are flat. But due to the regimented stripping of fat as part of Read More…
Background: Chin deficiences are common and are usually satisfactorily treated by an implant augmentation method. While implants are good for mild to moderate short chin problems, they often are not adequate for a chin that has a more significant horizontal deficiency that is accompanied by other dimensional abnormalities. Moving the symphysis of the mandible, known Read More…
Background: The head has a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Like the face, there are certain head shapes that are more pleasing than others. While one knows intuitively whether they like their head shape or not, there are certain measurements of height and width of the head that can help classify its beauty or Read More…
Background: One of the original facial implants ever made was for a short chin. Chin implants are the oldest facial implant used and can do a job of lengthening a wide variety of horizontal chin/jaw deficiences. Other jaw deficiences in the angle area on the back end of the jaw can also be augmented by Read More…
Background: Otoplasty is a common aesthetic surgery for ear reshaping which very successfully corrects a protruding ear problem. From incisions behind the ear, a cartilage fold is created by sutures that pulls the helical rim backward reducing its outer prominence and lessening the aurioculomastoid angle. While ears that stick out often look big, they usually Read More…
Background: Aging begins around the eyes early in life and continues unabated up through one’s senior years. This periorbital aging is manifested by the creation of extra eyelid skin which is caused by the stretching of the thin eyelid skin due to frequent movement. As the redundant eyelid skin becomes excessive it weighs down the Read More…
Background: Aneurysms of blood vessels can be either true (often caused by atherosclerosis and involving all three components of the arterial wall) or false. (often caused by trauma and involving just a portion of the arterial wall) Most arterial aneurysms are perceived as involving large vessels (e.g., aorta) but they can involve any vessel small 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...