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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 desire for larger breasts is very effectively achieved through the placement of implants behind the breast tissue/mound. This will create a larger and rounder breast mound but that is usually the limit of what it actually achieves. Implants have little capability to do much breast lifting and it can not change the position Read More…
Background: Buttock enhancement surgery has become a primary method of body contouring plastic surgery. Having a shapely and fuller buttocks has taken on great signficance for a more attractive body form. The buttocks for some now rivals what has been the breasts for many in the past. While most of the notoriety belongs to the Read More…
Background: The aging process around the eyes is classic. The near continuous motion of the eyelids creates loose skin and, with enough time and motion, the eyebrows will fall over the supraorbital rims and sag downward.. For many patients today, they have eyelid surgery early in life and never progress to see the extreme Read More…
Background: The chin is the prominent and most protruding structure of the lower face. It is a three-dimensional facial part that can have excesses and deficiencies of either the amount of projection, width or in its height. Because of the soft tissue that wraps around the chin bone, excessive or big chins pose greater Read More…
Background: The choice of implant size is often the most important issue that every women ponders before her breast augmentation procedure. While there is no exact science to making that selection, important considerations include breast and implant base diameters, the amount of breast mound skin and what final breast shape (round vs. tear drop) Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty in the non-caucasian ethnic nose poses different challenges than many typical rhinoplasty procedures. The goal of making a more defined and less wide nose requires a major change in the cartilage construct of the nose. Increasing the height of the bridge and the tip requires a considerable push from beneath to lift often Read More…
Background: The neck is generally a flat surface in youth that may have a bump or prominence in the middle about halfway between the jawline and the upper sternum of the chest. This laryngeal prominence, known more commonly as the Adam’s Apple, is formed by the size and angle of the thyroid cartilages that surround Read More…
Background: The shape of the ear, like the nose, is one of the most variable features of one’s face. While it is chocked full of hills and valleys composed of cartilage and has an array of anatomic convolutions, the human ear is nonetheless very recognizeable. Any gross abnormalities in its shape and size is easily Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of reasons why people seek out a primary or initial rhinoplasty. Since patients don’t usually know the names of the nasal anatomy or the terminology of the rhinoplasty surgeon, they have to describe their concerns in layman’s terms. Concerns such as a ‘big hump’, ‘fat tip’, or ‘bulbous nose’ Read More…
Background: Breast augmentation is one surgical plastic surgery procedure whose numbers performed per year continue to rise. One such reason is that the desire for larger breasts encompasses a wide variety of desires from being just a little bigger to very big and a large number of implant styles and sizes to match. On both 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...