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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: Rib removal is a head of but often not understood procedure. The bottom end of the ribcage are the free floating ribs #11 and #12. Because of this lack of distal attachments that angle down much more significantly than the attached ribs above it. These lack of subcostal/sternal attachments indicates that they do not Read More…
Background: The most common chin augmentation requested change s horizontal, increasing its forward projection. This is understandable given that many patients seek improvement of their chin recession. But not all chin recessions are completely horizontal in nature. Vertical chin deficiencies also exist and can occur as a stand alone dimensional deficiency or, more commonly, Read More…
Background: Soft tissue atrophy of the face most commonly occurs due to aging or weight loss. There are also some well known medical conditions that also can cause it. This atrophy is primarily fat-related and most significantly affects the temporal and cheek areas where the largest subcutaneous and compartmentalized fat exists. Whatever the cause the Read More…
Background: Brow bone augmentation is most commonly requested by men for understandable reasons. A stronger more projecting brow bone in the upper third of the face creates an enhanced masculine appearance. Conversely in females a softer brow bone appearance is desired with lack of any visible brow bone prominences particularly in the inner half of Read More…
Background: Cheek implants, while having been used clinically for a long time, pose challenges in both determining their aesthetic effects as well as their surgical placement. While seemingly simple in both regards cheek augmentation lessons are often learned from the initial placement of standard implants. In such situations the standard cheek implant serves as a Read More…
Background: Chin reduction understandably is the antithesis to chin augmentation. But suffice it to say that a chin reduction is technically harder than a chin augmentation when considering the bone and soft tissue elements involved and isn fraught with its own unique set of challenges. The first one of these is the soft tissue chin Read More…
Background: There are a variety of aesthetic upper forehead prominences that can benefit from reductive reshaping. While the frontal bone of the skull is not overly thick a certain amount of bone can be removed until the diploid space is encountered. Such prominences as osteomas, forehead horns, frontal bossing and prominent temporal lines represent the Read More…
Background: Clavicle fractures are a very common type of orthopedic bone injury with a reported occurrence of up to 4% of all fractures. Such fractures may be treated surgically with the placement of plates, screws and pins as well as non-surgically with post-injury shoulder immobilization slings/garments. With such a common type of bone injury it Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is an historic autologous chin augmentation procedure that has a long history. And while it is true that the down fractured bone is moved outward it really isn’t a sliding procedure anymore and hasn’t been for over almost 40 years. Originally the cut bone segment was slid forward along the osteotomy Read More…
Background: The lower extent of the ideal buttock shape should have a well defined line or demarcation between it and the upper thighs. (infragluteal fold) This is very similar to the inframammary fold of the breasts although not quite as pronounced due to the smaller projection of the buttock mound. There are a variety of 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...