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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 large ear can be vertically reduced of which the most common method is a ‘high and low ‘technique. The bottom of the ear is vertically reduced by a helical rim excision of the earlobe. The top of the ear is reduced by a scaphal flap rotation after excision of the middle part of Read More…
Background: Of the different body changes that a transfemale desires having a non-straight body figure is important. There are numerous ways to achieve that effect from breast and hip augmentation to abdominal/flank liposuction. But when those options have been exhausted or negated the last remaining procedure to consider is waistline reduction by rib removals. There Read More…
Background: Aesthetic body implants, excluding breast implants, strive to achieve muscular enhancements. The most common body implants are placed in the chest (for men), buttocks and calfs and because of their level of patient requests exist in standard shapes and sizes. Other muscles of the body can be augmented but with less frequent requests are Read More…
Background: Custom implants provide a reliable method of aesthetic skull augmentation based on their 3D preoperative design. But no matter how good an implant design is the final aesthetic result also depends on its proper placement and how well the scalp scar heals through which the implant is placed. Provided a good design and implant Read More…
Background: In shortening the clavicles in shoulder reduction surgery there are two factors to consider. Howe much bone length can be removed? How much fixation hardware is needed to support it for uncomplicated healing? Since all patients do not have the same clavicle lengths some adjustments have to be made in the length not bone Read More…
Background: The skull is composed of a number of plates of bone which are joined by sutures. These sutures allow the skull to grow with the underlying developing brain. Once brain growth is complete these sutures became stiffer and more fibrotic and even partially calcified. In adults the major suture lines are still seen of Read More…
Background: The superficial temporal artery (STA) is one of numerous blood supplies to the top of the head and scalp. Emanating off of the external carotid artery in the neck the origin of this arterial branch courses in front of the ear where its ascends into the temporal region and splits into anterior and posterior Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a general term that encompasses a variety of different techniques to do so. The two commonly used methods are an implant and an osteotomy. A wide variety of implant materials, styles and sizes are available to create almost every type of desired chin augmentation effect. For very significant chin augmentations beyond Read More…
Background: The term ‘lopsided’ refers to a paired entity in which one side is lower or smaller than the other. In medical terms ‘asymmetry’ is more commonly used. But either description applies to various forms of head shape abnormalities in which there is a discrepancy between the shape of its two sides. Plagiocephaly is the Read More…
Background: While there are many techniques for lower facelift surgery they all share one basic element…incisions around the ears. No matter what is done inside (SMAS manipulations) the presence of incision in and around the ears is what controls the amount of face and neck skin that is removed and repositioned in the procedure. As 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...