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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 concept of clavicle reduction osteotomies for shoulder narrowing is straightforward and fairly linear. A segment of the clavicle bone is removed, the two ends are put together and are held in place by plates and screws so they can heal. But there are numerous details of the procedure which if not precisely done Read More…
Background: Chin implants have the longest history of all aesthetic facial implants and is not rare to occasionally come across a patient with an ‘old’ chin implant from many decades ago. In the vast majority of these cases it will be a silicone implant and it is possible to see various iterations of earlier generation Read More…
Background: While pectoral implants are the male equivalent of female breast implants there are some obvious and not so obvious differences between them. The obvious differences are that in women the goals is to create a round mound that is only partially under the muscle. (if a submuscular approach is being used) It is not Read More…
Background: All three facial thirds can be aesthetically augmented with implants. But there are major differences between the upper third of the face than the lower two-thirds. By history, availability of off-the-shelf implants and clinical experience augmentation of the lower 2/3s of the face is well known with chin, cheek, jaw angle, paranasal, premaxillary, and Read More…
Background: The five surfaces of the skull are prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities. In theory all five surfaces could be equally affected by these shape deformations but that is not so. Three of the five skull surfaces are completely bony but the sides are covered with muscle. Since almost all skull Read More…
Background: The back of the head is typically perceived as being made up of the occipital skull bone. But this is not completely accurate. This large unpaired bone is the most posterior part of the skull and does makes up a significant part of its posterior wall. But the upper part of the back of Read More…
Background: The skull is simplistically a collection of five almost flat to very convex surfaces. All of these skull surfaces usually have smooth outer contours but are prone to a wide variety of possible irregularities from either congenital, traumatic or pathologic origins. A significant number of such surface contour irregularities are related to the suture Read More…
Background: The most common bony changes done to the lower jaw are the sliding genioplasty and the sagittal split ramus osteotomy. (SSRO) Other types of bony changes less commonly done are chin wing osteotomies, v line surgery and TMJ joint replacements. All of these autologous jaw procedures can create very effective lower facialreshaping changes but Read More…
Background: The chin is the most commonly treated aesthetic facial augmentation area for which a wide variety of implants exist to perform it. All but one of these implant styles provides a horizontal augmentation effect only. While they can be positioned a bit lower on the chin bone to create some vertical lengthening effect they Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery reduces the length of the clavicles through osteotomies at the inner half of the bone below incisions placed in the supraclavicular fossa. It is a procedure that is often compared to a longstanding surgery that seems similar…clavicle fracture repair. But the reality is it is a far different surgery in many 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...