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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: Jaw augmentation in various forms is a commonly requested procedure amongst men and women. Injectable fillers provide a temporary trial for jaw augmentation but besides the lack of permanency it can take a lot of injection volume to achieve a complete jaw augmentation effect. Standard implants (chin and jaw angles) do well for spot Read More…
Background: The most common method of lip augmentation is injectable fillers. While this lip augmentation method may not be permanent it is effective for many patents if they have an adequate amount of vermilion show to expand. But when a small lip exists with limited vermilion show fillers do not usually create a good aesthetic Read More…
Background: Setback otoplasty is one of the most common aesthetic ear surgeries with a wide variety of technique to accomplish it. But regardless of the techniques used sutures are involved. They either create the desired ear shape change or, at the very least, help hold it into its new position as it heals. These sutures Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull reductions are done by a high speed burring technique. The usual goal is to remove the outer cortical layer of skull bone down to just outside the diploic space. In so doing as a result of the high speed rotary burr a lot of bone residue or dust is generated. Because of Read More…
Background: There are many features of the nose that affect its symmetry with the nostrils being one of them. Because they are paired structures there is always the chance of the shape and position of them can be different. The most common cause of nostril asymmetry is postoperative from rhinoplasty surgery. Due to the most Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is determined by the interface between the exposed bony surfaces of the skull and the overlying temporal muscles on its sides. This creates five surfaces (four sides and a top) which influences the appearance of the head from 360 degree viewing angles. Because any one of these skull surfaces Read More…
Background: The shape of the nose is controlled by many anatomic components but one of the most significant is that of the septum. Serving as the central support for all of the nasal structures on top of it, its aesthetic contribution is in largely controlling the height of the bridge and the projection of the Read More…
Background: The chin implant is the most historic of all the facial implants and still the most commonly performed facial implant procedure. Because access to the chin for implant placement does have any major impediments and the distance from either inside the mouth or below the chin is short, the chin implant is often viewed Read More…
Background: One of the main aesthetic proportions involved in facial beauty is that of the facial thirds. This is based on the concept that the face is divided into horizontal thirds. The upper third is from the hairline to the glabellar region between the eyebrows, the middle third is from the glabella to the base Read More…
Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities across its broad areas including lumps, bumps and indentations. Many indentations or ‘dents’ are the direct result of trauma that often has occurred early in life when the skull is thinner and more easily deformed. They can also occur much later in 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...