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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 scalp is pierced as a homogenous layer of soft tissue covering the skull whose most dominant feature is the hair it may or may not contain. While the scalp does have five distinct layers throughout its large surface area of coverage the thicknesses of it varies. The thickest part of the scalp is Read More…
Background: The bony genioplasty remains the best technique for significant lower facial augmentation particularly when significant vertical lengthening is needed. It is always better in the long term to let the bone create the large chin augmentation effect as opposed to a large implant load on the chin even if it may not create the Read More…
Background: In the short chin, when significant vertical lengthening is the primary deficiency, the bony genioplasty remains the workhorse for this type of lower facial augmentation. Significant vertical chin lengthening is defined in my experience by greater than 7 mm in most patients. This is based on the restrictions of the overlying soft tissue chin Read More…
Background: In the patient with a wide or overly convex head shape the question is always is this a function of the bone or muscle. To accurately answer this question one has to look at the anatomy of the temporal bone and muscle which makes up the side of the head. The temporal bone is Read More…
Background: One every common aesthetic facial concern is underrate hollowing. This is a general term and differs based on a congenital or aging created deficiency. A congenital under eye problem is a bony deficiency (lack of forward growth projection) while an age-related under eye problem is usually soft tissue related (fat atrophy). In the severest Read More…
Background: The flatter midface has a long history of being treated by the LeFort I advancement bony procedure. While effective for improving projection of the upper lip, teeth and nasal base as well as improving the dental interdigitation it leaves behind the the midface structures that lie above the bone cut.This means the infraorbital rim Read More…
Background: Optimal augmentation around the orbit and cheeks is ideally done with a custom implant design. Some aesthetic cheek augmentations need a significant orbital component, most commonly along the infraorbital rim but may also include the lateral orbital rim as well. Often the desire for such an implant design is learned from the use of Read More…
Background: Facial asymmetries are not uncommon and can affect any of the facial thirds.Such asymmetries can be more complete affecting multiple facial thirds or they can only involve one of them. The upper facial third or forehead is not spared from such congenital asymmetries although in my experience it is probably less commonly affected than Read More…
Background: There are many different types of standard facial implant styles including chin, cheek, nasal, jaw angle, tear trough/infraorbital, temporal and paranasal. Of all these off-the-shelf implant options the paranasal is unique with two distinctions. It is the smallest implant in size and probably the most infrequently used. It is also rarely in my experience Read More…
Background: The skull is prone to numerous contour deformations for which augmentation materials can be used to improve its shape. Plagiocephaly is the most recognized of all the deformational skull shape concerns. While it does affect the entire skull by far the most severely affected area is the back of the head one side being 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...