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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: Midface deficiencies are an interesting area of the face to augment as it is one of the few facial areas that has a significant concave shape to it. It also poses some anatomic issues with the prominent location of the infraorbital nerve. Traditionally midface augmentation was perceived as only being able to be effectively Read More…
Background: The desired shape of the chin can be very gender specific. Men often prefer a wider and even a more square chin shape. Conversely women usually prefer a more narrow chin shape and most contemporarily a tapered v-shape. While achieving a wider chin shape in men usually requires addition using an implant, attaining a Read More…
Background: The occipital knob is the protrusion of bone that occurs in the midline at the bottom of the back of the skull. Everyone has an occipital knob but it usually becomes much bigger and noticeable in some men. This may be due to the short hair that men have that makes it more noticeable Read More…
Background: Undereye hollows are a very common aesthetic concern. It occurs for a variety of anatomic reasons from fat atrophy/loss to skeletal deficiencies. The most common treatment is injectable fillers which can have good success but is not complication free. Irregularities and over/undercorrection are not uncommon post injection outcomes. But the one outcome issue that Read More…
Background: Lower jaw augmentation surgery is requested for a variety of aesthetic reasons. Most commonly patients are interested in improvement in their jaw shape, feeling that is weak or ill defined. While this is often perceived as being in the horizontal direction for the chin and at the width of the jaw angles, more patients Read More…
Background: The traditional approach to aesthetic jaw implant surgery is a combination of intraoral (2) and external incisions. (1) The intraoral incisions are needed to access the jaw angle region where that portion of the implants are placed on the bone under the masseter muscle. While the intraoral approach to the jaw angles is scarless, Read More…
Background: The request to improve a sagging breast as well as to increase its size is a common one. The success of combining a breast lift with implants is a balance between how much the breast is lifted and the size of the breast implants. These are two operations that fight against each other to Read More…
Background: Chin implants are typically perceived as a ‘simple’ procedure that is easy to do with a high rate of success. The reality of chin augmentation is, however, far different. While the implant is responsible for creating the effect the preoperative implant style and size selection as well as its surgical placement determines its success. Read More…
Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the hips is far more challenging that other body areas for two reasons. First the common use of injection fat grafting, unlike that of the buttocks, has far less predictable results. Fat survives more poorly in the hips than the buttocks for unknown reasons. Second, there are no standard hip implants Read More…
Background: Total jawline augmentation has historically been done by a combination of standard chin and jaw angle implants. While effective for some they ‘fail’ as often as they succeed for three reasons. First when three implants are placed around the curve of the jawline perfect placement of symmetry of them is very difficult to achieve. 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...