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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 shape of the bony forehead above the brow bones has numerous features including height, width and shape of its projection. A type of aesthetic bony concern of the forehead is too great a prominence or protrusion. The forehead sticks out and breaks the plane of its projection. The most well known example is Read More…
Background: There are numerous types of lumps and bumps that can occur on the skull, many of which have a defined origin and precise location. One of these is the sagittal prominence, a midline crest or ridge of bone that can occur anywhere along the original sagittal suture line. A distant cousin to the more Read More…
Background: Clavicle lengthening is one type of shoulder reshaping surgery with the intent of creating a more masculine upper torso appearance. While increased shoulder width is one of the desired effects, changing a rounded shape to a more square or angular shoulder appearance is equally important. Small clavicle lengths create rounder shoulders with a more Read More…
Background: One of the common aesthetic skull reshaping procedures requested and done is head widening reduction. Better known as temporal reduction the objective of the surgery is to create a narrowing effect (straight line) of an overly convex or round side of the head. While often perceived as accomplished by bone removal it is actually Read More…
Background: Like most other facial features the shape of the forehead is gender specific. There are numerous parts of the forehead that differ between women from men but the most obvious is that of the brow bones. In men due to the influence of testosterone the frontal sinuses develop more fully, creating prominent brow bone Read More…
Background: There are numerous facial features that define the male face of which the forehead is one of them. Occupying a third of the face the forehead is a dominant male feature that has a more complex topography than it initially seems to have. Besides the brow bones on its lower end, it is taller Read More…
Background: The deltoid muscle is a primary abductor of the upper arm whose mass gives the shoulder its rounded shape. Despite its seemingly uniform rounded shape it actually has three distinct heads or muscle masses, the anterior, lateral and posterior heads which helps the arm abduct in different planes. It is innervated exclusively by the Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is usually the treatment of choice for many significantly short chin patients. A a general rule when the amount of horizontal chin projection is near 10mm or more, the sliding genioplasty provides a more effective augmentation with a much lower risk of infection. For women in particular who prefer to keep Read More…
Background: The well known sliding genioplasty procedure can provide multi-dimensional changes to the projection of the chin. With a downfractured and mobile inferior chin segment, it can freely be positioned ‘out into space’ to accomplish the desired chin augmentation effect provided that rigid fixation is used to hold it there. But with that downfractured chin Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the brow bone is done for either a masculinizing effect or for the correction of brow bone asymmetry. The former is best done using a custom brow bone implant that is placed through a small scalp incision using an endoscopic technique. Brow bone asymmetry, however, uses smaller implants which have the 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...