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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 clavicle may be a well known and visible human bone but its anatomic shape is under appreciated. While often perceived as having a relatively symmetric tubular shape throughout its actual dimensions are quite different. First it is not a straight bone but instead has a lazy-s shape that is angulated forward. The thickness Read More…
Background: Of all facial areas for aesthetic structural augmentation the brow bone is the most unique. It may be a relatively small area but its shape is complex and is very visible sitting right above the eyes. It is also a very gender specific facial feature in which requests to do so are almost always Read More…
Background: The projection of the central midface, excluding that of the nose, is controlled by the development of the maxillary bone around the large nasal cavity. This is known as the bony pyriform rim not which the external nose, particularly that of the nostrils laterally and the columella centrally sit. It is divided into a Read More…
Background: While all standard chin implants are designed to provide varying amounts of horizontal projection they have a round shape to them. The one exception is the chin implant whose name describes what it intended to do…the square style chin implant. It is fair to say that this is primarily used in men who request Read More…
Background: The temporal artery is best known in plastic surgery for its contribution in reconstruction as the vascular supply for local tissue flaps. The goal in these procedures is preservation of the blood flow to the artery to keep the transferred tissues alive. Conversely the strong blood flow in the temporal artery can have an Read More…
Background: The most common jaw augmentation procedures, both historically and today, is the placement of a chin implant. While the primary objective is an increase in horizontal projection in most cases secondary objectives may be changes in vertical height and shape of the chin. One such secondary objective that is unique in men is the desire Read More…
Background: The anterior branch of the superficial temporal artery is the only portion of the external carotid system that can become externally visible. As it leaves the temporal hairline and crosses into the side of the forehead its pathway is superficial above the deep temporal fascia. If the artery becomes enlarged, due to a medical Read More…
Background: Reductive shoulder reshaping, often called shoulder narrowing surgery, works by shortening the length of the clavicles. Through a small incision located in the supraclavicular fossa a segment of the clavicle is removed and the ends reapproximated. This pulls in the distal clavicle and shoulder because the medial end of the clavicle, its sternoclavicular joint Read More…
Background: Jaw angle implants pose very difficult challenges than chin implants in both size and style selection as well as surgical placement. The most obvious difference is that a chin implant is a single procedure while jaw angle implants are two procedures due to their bilateral locations. Positioning a single implant over a solitary projecting Read More…
Background: Frontal bossing is usually an isolated aesthetic skull deformity. Similarly excessive head width/convexity is often also a localized head shape issue. But there are some patients where the two are related and are part of an overall larger and wider head. The width created by the frontal bossing extends over onto the side 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...