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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: Enlargement of the scrotum can be achieved by a variety of injection and implant techniques. An injection approach offers a no-surgical approach in which filler materials could include saline and a variety of non-permanent and permanent fillers. The most common permanent filler used, and the only one that really exists, is silicone oil. Silicone Read More…
Background: The appearance of the forehead is heavily dependent on the hair bearing areas that frame it. The frontal hairline is the superior border (at least for women) and the eyebrows are the inferior border. The location of the frontal hairline controls the vertical length of the forehead while the eyebrows influence the appearance of Read More…
Background: Implants offer one effective method for treating temporal hollowing which is defined as an excessive concavity . There are two basic styles of temporal implants, standard and extended, whose shapes are based on the extent of the temporal hollowing that is being treated. Regardless of the implant style used the traditional placement is through Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the lower legs can be done by either fat injections or implants. Each has their advantages and disadvantages which is consistent with the same choice for any other body muscle augmentation. Fat injections are an autologous procedure that has few complications and is a natural material but its volume retention is unpredictable Read More…
Background: The most common and successful method of buttock augmentation is injectable fat grafting. Known more commonly as BBL surgery this procedure produces a dual aesthetic benefit from the harvest for the fat (reduction) to the buttock injection site. (augmentation) Because of the success of this procedure as well as being an autologous one, I Read More…
Background: While the chin used to be the only part of the jawline that was augmented, such aesthetic changes are now done for the rest of the jawline as well. Standard styles of jaw angle implants exist as well as the most contemporary custom jawline implant which changes the shape of the entire jawline. The Read More…
Background: While a sliding genioplasty may be an autologous procedure rather than an implant-based method of chin augmentation, it is still susceptible to the risks of the need for aesthetic revision. The chin may have been advanced too far forward for the patient’s aesthetic desires or time has determined that getting back closer to their Read More…
Background: Temporal reduction remains the only known effective procedure for a reshaping/narrowing of the side of the head. This is particularly useful, almost always in the male patient, in which the side of their head has too much convexity and they desire a more straight line appearance to it. Since the side of the head Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known aesthetic head shape deformity in which the origin of the name means twisted skull. When viewed from above the skull shape is also often called cranioscoliosis based on its axis of rotation. in the majority of cases this rotation is counter clockwise, meaning the right back of the head Read More…
Background: The most common methods of lower facial (jawline) augmentation are either non-surgical temporary injectable fillers or permanent surgically placed implants. The use of standard chin and jaw angle implants offers a convenient option for permanent jawline augmentation that requires no significant presurgical preparation with fairly low implant cost. It is also the surgical jawline 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...