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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 immediate success of shoulder reduction is one of a consistent improvement that patients see as a good aesthetic improvement. Such a reductive shoulder shape change is seen immediately after surgery and is not affected by postoperative swelling which is at the inner half of the clavicle. This makes clavicle reduction surgery unique in Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most common female facial enhancements. It is by far most commonly done by injection methods whether it is by synthetic fillers or fat. The success of such volume addition is dependent on how much vermilion show is present. If the vermilion is height is small or vertically short Read More…
Background: While there are many bony structural procedures of the face, there are very few on the body. Those that do exist, however, are bony in nature and consist of shoulder, rib and iliac bony changes. In the transfemale patient population in particular shoulder and waist reductions are desired to help create more body contour Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done by a variety of materials which can be divided into rigid and semi-rigid physical properties. Silicone is the most commonly used of the materials as its semi-rigid forms allows for introduction through smaller incisions, can be designed in almost any shape and thickness and has feathered edges. These Read More…
Background: Rib removal is the final and definitive procedure for waist narrowing when the patient is seeking a result beyond what standard body contouring surgery can achieve. The traditional rib removal surgery focuses on the bottom two or free floating ribs as they lie adjacent to the waistline and their cartilaginous tips are the point Read More…
Background: Midface augmentation consists of a variety of standard implants from that of the cheeks, tear troughs and nasal base. (premaxillary and paranasal) What custom designs bring to this area of the face is infraorbital, infraornital-malar and a variety of broader coverage midface implants. The infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant is the most common of all the Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to variety of aesthetic shape deformations, some of them flattening and others of a protrusive nature. For the protrusions there are some well known occipital bone-based ones including knobs and buns. These are circular enlargements that have a midline origin to them. They are essentially enlargements of Read More…
Background: The custom jawline implant is one of the most frequently performed and powerful of all custom facial implant designs. Its wrap around shallow augments the entire jawline in a preformed implant design. While such an implant design is undergo complete control of the surgeon and patient there is no way to know for sure Read More…
Background: The large surface area of the forehead creates a major aesthetic component of the face. While lacking the projecting topographies of the lower 2/3s of the face it nonetheless has a few significant features that define it. These include the frontal hairline superiorly, the eyebrows/brow bones inferiorly and the shape of the entire frontal Read More…
Background: Despite the common use of chin implants as an aesthetic facial surgery, some of the important technical aspects of the procedure remain misunderstood or at least underappreciated. The most basic is that an implant may be perfectly placed but if it is the wrong implant style or size then its placement becomes irrelevant. The 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...