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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: Tummy tucks, or an abdominoplasty, is one of the successfully proven methods of abdominal and waistline contouring. The foundation of a tummy tuck is the removal of a segment of loose skin and fat, a horizontal ellipse that is taken out below (mini-tummy tuck) or above the umbilicus. (full tummy tuck) Other adjunctive Read More…
Background: Blepharoplasty or eyelid tucks/lifts for men is an increasingly requested facial improvement and is the second most frequently performed male plastic surgery, exceeded only by liposuction body contouring. Periorbital rejuvenation provides a very visible enhancement to a man’s appearance as it removes sagging upper eyelids and puffiness underneath the eyes. For those men Read More…
Background:The forehead occupies the upper third of the face and has variable degrees of convexity based on gender and genetics. It is structurally composed of very strong bicortical bone at its upper two-thirds and the much weaker aerated brow bones at its lower third underneath the eyebrows. While the forehead can resist significant forces, Read More…
Background: Keloid scars are one of the most difficult scar problems. They are hard to stop growing and removing them is no guarantee that they will not return. Their high recurrence rate is well chronicled. One of the reasons keloids can recur is that they are incompletely excised. Leaving but just a miniscule amount Read More…
Background: One of the most challenging of all plastic surgery procedures of the face is ear reconstruction. Microtia, or congenital absence of the external, is the most extreme challenge when it comes to making an ear essentially from scratch. A more common, although not less challenging, is that of partial ear reconstruction. Whether it Read More…
Background: The lips have become a significant focus of facial enhancement, largely attributed to not only existing cultural standards but the use of injectable fillers. Adding volume and increasing the size of the lips has become relatively easy and immediate with a few simple sticks of a needle. Increasing the height and volume of Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is the original and the most common area of facial skeletal enhancement. As a projecting edge of bone that is fairly easy to access, placing a chin implant is understandably perceived as a very simple and near error-free facial implant procedure. Despite this commonly-held belief, however, chin implants do have problems Read More…
Background: Migraine headaches are a common and potentially debilitating disorder. Affecting both men as well as women, they account for a significant amount of lost productivity and a hampered lifestyle for those severely affected. Why migraines occur is still largely unknown. Treatment of migraines is largely done by drug therapies which focus on either Read More…
Background: A tummy tuck is the most successful body contouring operation in plastic surgery that we know. Its dramatic removal of excess skin and fat, and vertical rectus muscle tightening, produces an outcome that patient’s can not otherwise achieve on their own. While there is a resultant scar, that is a worthwhile trade-off in Read More…
Background: Aesthetic concerns of the lips are largely a gender specific issue. By far, most cosmetic lip procedures are done in women. Men represent a very small percent (1 to 2%) of those patients who undergo lip modifications, whether it is injectable fillers or excisional lip modifications. The long upper lip is often viewed 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...