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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 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…
Background: The webbed neck is a well known congenital neck deformity that has a variety of origins. While the syndromic versions seen in Turner’s and Noonan’s are well described there are equal if not greater number of webbed necks that are non-syndromic.They exist without other physical abnormalities and with no genetic markers of other syndromes. Read More…
Background: Clavicle reduction osteotomies has become an effective surgery for patients affected by dysphoria of their shoulder width and square shape. It works by the obvious shortening of the length of the clavicle which produces close to a linear reduction effect. But it also has a rounding effect on the shoulders given the lazy s-shape Read More…
Background: The ear occupies the side of the head and is a frequently overlooked facial feature given its location. It only becomes aesthetically relevant when some feature about it makes it stand out. The most common aesthetic ears deformity is protrusion, the ear sticks out too far from the side of the head with an Read More…
Background: There are numerous facial feature differences between men and women which can be separated by anatomic site. The foreheads eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin, jawline and lips all have specific gender specific shapes. The largest of these anatomic areas by surface area is the forehead which occupies more than a third of the total Read More…
Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most commonly done injectable fillers treatments for women. It is both very effective and versatile and can create almost any type of lip augmentation change a patient desires. But it does have one drawback…it is not permanent. And while lip injections can be repeated many times the inconvenience, Read More…
Background: Making a nose smaller is a fairly common request in patients seeking rhinoplasty surgery. Most of these requests often refer to one specific nasal feature, such as a reduction of a prominent hump or a large nasal tip. The goal is to bring back the larger unaesthetic nasal feature into proportion with the rest Read More…
Background: One of the most common facial fractures is that of the cheekbone or malar bones. Anatomically this is known as the ZMC or zygomaticomaxillary complex, a name that comes from the four bony legs that support the projection of the cheek bone…the inferior posterior maxillary buttress, the lateral zygomatic arch, the superior lateral orbital Read More…
Background: Implants remain the most common form of chin augmentation due to their immediate effects and relative simplicity of the surgery. But chin implants have their limitations including the risk of infection, implant malposition and inadequate amounts of augmentation. When the postoperative problem is an inadequate augmentation result the question becomes whether to replace the Read More…
Background: The most common aesthetic ear surgery is a setback otoplasty. There are a wide variety of methods to pull back the protruding ear including suture techniques, cartilage removal and scoring and combinations of both. Regardless of the technique(s) used they are mainly applied to the conchal area in the middle third of the ear 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...