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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 width of the side of the head is controlled by muscle and not bone. This is a revelation for most patients as the belief is that the thickness of the temporal bone is what makes the head wide. But a look at the anatomy reveals that the bone is actually deeply concave by Read More…
Background: Waist reduction can be done by a variety of surgical techniques. Standard and well used techniques include liposuction, lateral fascial plication during a tummy tuck as well as non-surgical methods of weight loss and exercise. For the vast majority of patients the waist reduction obtained by these type of standard approach is aesthetically sufficient. Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull, while having numerous surfaces, is largely composed of varying convex shapes. There is no one spot where the skull is truly flat. Thus when a flat spot appears it is both noticeable and aesthetically undesired. This is particularly on the male head today because of shorter and shaved hairstyles. Read More…
Background: The ear has a complex shape due to its numerous cartilage convexities and concavities. Despite these topographic complexities the ear is best appreciated when it doesn’t stand out along the side of the head. (a normal auriculocephalic angle) But one other dimension, height, can also make the ear more noticeable than desired. The typical Read More…
Background: Lip reconstruction from congenital deformities (cleft lip), trauma and cancer resections uses a variety of long standing plastic surgery techniques. When the upper lip tissues are grossly deficient or highly scarred, an historic and valuable reconstruction method is that of the cross-lip flap. (Abbe flap) By transferring unscarred normal vermilion and skin from the Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull deformities can involve any of the skull surfaces but almost always involves at least two of them. In larger types of skull augmentations the typical skull surface involvements is usually three or four of the available surfaces. In these larger multi surface skull augmentations the consideration of the scalp’s ability to stretch Read More…
Background: Aesthetic deformities of facial arteries are uncommon of which the prominent anterior branch of the temporal artery is the most recognized of them. This is where the pathway of the artery is seen from the temples into the forehead with it appearing like the branches of a tree. It is the visibility of the Read More…
Background: The occipital knob is a common skull reshaping procedure that is exclusively requested by men in my experience. What brings it to the patient’s attention is their hairstyle, with either a very short or shaved head in which all topographic highlights of the skull becomes visible. The central bony projection that appears in the Read More…
Background: Unlike chin augmentation chin reduction surgery is different in many ways. First reducing the chin is done far less frequently than making it bigger. Second, it is almost exclusively a gender specific procedure (female) whether that is in the cis-female or the transgender male to female patient. Lastly, the component that is mainly excessive Read More…
Background: A custom jawline implant is designed with seven (7) specific dimensional components. Three of those dimensions relate to the more forward projecting part of the implant at the chin. While the chin constitutes less than 30% of the implant’s total surface area coverage it is the most valuable part of the implant due to 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...