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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 occipital bone is associated with the back of the head and is generally believed that is the primary bone of it. In reality it makes up only a portion of the back of the head and is only located at the visible lower portion. When one realizes that the majority of the occipital Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentations by the placement of an onlay material has a relatively short clinical history. The original skull augmentation material was PMMA bone cement which was borrowed from its much more common use in orthopedic surgery. As it name implies it is used as a cement by which joint replacements are secured into Read More…
Background: Otoplasty is the most common aesthetic ear surgery performed around the world. (not counting earlobe repair) While there are innumerable techniques by which it is performed the fundamental concept shared by all of them is a reshaping of the antihelical-helical rim cartilage shape. Sutures are the method by which the cartilage shape is maintained Read More…
Background: The most common dimensional need for many chin augmentations is in the horizontal direction. But the most overlooked dimensional need in chin augmentation is vertical. For some patients the horizontal increase is enough to produce the slight vertical increase that is needed with the forward roll of the soft tissue chin pad. But for Read More…
Background: Chin implants come in a wide variety of styles, sizes and materials. Much is made of the implant material by some surgeons and patients based on the perception that the materials create significantly different biologic behaviors. And while there are some tissue adhesion differences between the materials, the biologic response of any material is Read More…
Background: Major skull augmentations are most commonly requested in females. The maximum point of projection is almost always over the crown of the skull with the intent of creating a large internal ‘bumpit’. To create such a skull augmentation requires two essential ingredients…an implant method to create it and the scalp laxity to cover it. Read More…
Background: The traditional approach to total jawline augmentation is with the use of standard chin and jaw angle implants. Most commonly a chin implant is done first and then the patient ‘graduates’ to jaw angle implants later with the realization that what lies behind the chin implant now looks deficient as well. In less common Read More…
Background: The shape of the chin in all views is a combination of the the bone and the enveloping soft tissue chin pad. Typically there is a confluent appearance of the chin as the soft tissue chin pad is tightly adherent to the bone through ligamentous and muscular attachments. But the there are certain clinical Read More…
Background: There is a classic debate that occurs in chin augmentation as to whether it should be done by an implant or moving the chin bone. There are a lot of factors that go into that decision for each patient from an emotional preference to cost and recovery. But all of those issues aside one Read More…
Background: While standard chin and jaw angle implants have their role to play in lower facial augmentation, there is no comparison to what a total jawline implant can do. As the name implies, it differs because it creates a line of augmentation along the entire border surface area of the lower jaw. In effect think 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...