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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: Undereye hollows are a not uncommon aesthetic midface concern.They are seen in two basic types of patients. In the older patients undereye hollows occur from aging with loss of fat from underneath the lower eyelid and inferior orbital compartments. It may also be caused from a prior lower blepharoplasty where excessive fat has been Read More…
Background: Aside from asymmetries and congenital skull deformities there are gender differences in the types of aesthetic skull augmentations that are requested. In my experience the back of the head is the #1 request for men while the crown of the skull is most commonly sought in women. One could argue that the lack of Read More…
Background: The large chin (macrogenia) can be caused by excessive bone, soft tissue or both. A unique form of congenital macrogenia, most commonly seen in females, is a pure soft tissue excess known as chin pad hypertyrophy. Often called a fleshy chin the size of the overlying soft tissue is disproportionately larger than that of Read More…
Background: The vertical length of the female face extends from the frontal hairline (trichion ) down to the bottom of the chin. (pogonion) It is aesthetically divided in thirds which are ideally proportionate. From a surgical manipulation standpoint the facial thirds can be thought of as the forehead, nose-upper lip and chin as all of Read More…
Background: Improving the shape of the jaw is one of the most challenging of all facial augmentations. It is.a complex bone by facial standards and is also the largest surface area in the face to augment. In addition the type of dimensional changes needed in the chin are different from what is needed in the Read More…
Background: In larger skull implant augmentations it is necessary to undergo a 1st stage scalp expansion. What defines a skull implant size that requires an initial scalp expansion depends on several factors, the most important of which is the scalp’s ability to stretch to accommodate the size of the implant underneath it. There is not Read More…
Background: The forehead is prone to the development of benign masses or growths more so than any other surface of the skull or scalp. Whether it is because it is more visible or whether it sustains more low level trauma the forehead is prone to developing benign slow growing masses. The most common forehead masses Read More…
Background: The skull develops through numerous methods, one of which is ossification of certain bony eminences. (aka primary bone growth centers) One of these is the well known parietal eminence area which ultimately forms the large parietal bones of the skull. These quadrilateral-shaped skull bones located at the sides and posterior roof of the skull Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery works by its obvious shortening of the horizontal length of the clavicle bone. In so doing the most critical step is putting back together the bone with its new shortened length using plate and screw fixation. That step is what most significantly differentiates it from clavicle fracture repair where the goal Read More…
Background: The chin is a three-dimensional structure whose length, width and projection must be considered in any augmentation procedure. While an implant works fine for modest dimensional changes of the chin it does not work well for larger changes. This is particularly true when significant vertical lengthening is needed as this where the role 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...