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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: Describing what a defined or more sculpted face looks like can defy an exact explanation. Numerous angles, ratios and numbers have been described to do so and they all have their merit. But the one concept that is often overlooked is that of the facial corners or prominences. These include the brow bones, nose, Read More…
Background: Many types of skull reduction procedures are what I call ‘spot’ reductions. This means that specific raised areas of the skull can be selectively reduced by a bone burring technique. These include such areas as occipital knobs, forehead horns and sagittal crests to name some of the most common spot skull reduction areas. They Read More…
Background: Aesthetic surgery of the ear is commonly called otoplasty. This term is really a generic term that doesn’t really indicate what type of ear reshaping procedure is being done. Because the most common aesthetic ear reshaping surgery is historically for protruding ears, otoplasty is most commonly associated with ear pinning or a setback otoplasty Read More…
Background: BBL surgery is well known around the world and is a purely autologous approach to changing the size of the buttocks. It is a fat redistribution approach and these effects are synergestic…a smaller waistline make the buttocks look bigger and vice versa. Such BBL surgery is dependent on how much fat one has to Read More…
Background: A common method of aesthetic jaw augmentation in my practice, although not well known at all to many, is combining an osteotomy with implants. In this specific method a bony genioplasty is done for the anterior third of the jaw and custom implants are used for the remaining two-thirds of the jaw behind it. Read More…
Background: A midface deficiency affects the middle third of the face from the infraorbital rims down to the maxillary alveolus. In its classic presentation the patient has a class III malocclusion or underbite but that may not be evident if prior orthodontic correction and orthognathic surgery has been done. Despite a corrected occlusion the midface Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is controlled largely by the thickness and contours of the skull bones. While the skull is often perceived as being a uniform set of bones encasing the brain, it varies considerably across its five surfaces. (forehead, top of head, back of head and paired temporal regions) The back of Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery is done in either transgender male to females or cis-females for shoulder dysphoria. Having done many such procedures at this point I have had the epiphany that the term ‘shoulder narrowing’ does not accurately describe what occurs. Because the clavicle is a lazy s-shaped bone with a horizontal orientation, a removal Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is one of the most common aesthetic facial reshaping surgeries. The chin implant is used for many of these chin augmentation surgeries and is a powerful and effective treatment for most horizontal chin projection deficiencies. It is often called the most powerful facial reshaping procedure that can be performed in the shortest Read More…
Background: Brow bone reduction is most commonly known today because of transgender facial feminization surgery. While that patient population makes up the majority of brow bone reduction surgery today, it is a procedure that has also been used in cis-males as well. For the male with over developed brow bones due to excessive frontal sinus 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...