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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 nose is a combination of the form of its osteocartilaginous framework and the thickness of the overlying skin. The skin plays a major role in the appearance of the nose particularly as the nasal skin becomes thicker. But regardless of thick or thin nasal skin rhinoplasty surgery is about changing Read More…
Background: The external appearance of the face is highly influenced by its bony foundation. While the overlying soft tissue also makes important contributions the overall gestalt of the face is framed by its skeletal structure. Such influences are well known by many of the basic gender differences in the male and female face and is Read More…
Background: Despite its anatomic makeup of multiple bones, the shape of the skull is largely smooth with a convex contour over the its bony areas and minimal convexity or flatness at the sides. From an aesthetic standpoint the head or skull shape is viewed as five distinct units; forehead, top of head, back of head Read More…
Background: The ear, small in size that it is, has a very complex shape. Composed of numerous hills and valleys within its skin-cartilage composition, it has a convoluted topography as a result of its embryologic development. The outer ear achieves its shape through the merger of six hillocks which are derived from the first and Read More…
Background: The forehead is formed by the large frontal bone which occupies all skull real estate from the coronal suture down to the orbits. It is comprised of two segments, one oriented vertically (squamous segment) and one oriented horizontally. (orbital segment) It is easy to see that the brow bones on the lower end of Read More…
Background: The shape of the eye is influenced by all the tissue elements that comprise it. Its foundation is that of the bone, in particular the circumferential bony rim onto which much of the eyelids attach. It is not surprising therefore that eyelid shape, particularly that of the lower eyelid, is directly influenced by that Read More…
Background: It is said that no face is perfectly symmetric and some asymmetry is actually attractive. While these time honored statements are true, they really apply to facial asymmetries that are more of a modest nature. To those patients so affected with more significant facial asymmetries, they would undoubtably not agree. Thus improvements in many Read More…
Background: One of the most common and recognized non-synostotic skull deformities is that of plagiocephaly. Technically this is a generic descriptive term that refers to a flat spot on the head, particularly in babies and children. But it is most commonly seen as a flat area on the back of the head when viewed from Read More…
Background: The ribcage is an arrangement of curved rib segments that covers much of the trunk and is a lot more complex than a static image of it appears. The curved rib bones interface with the vertebrae in the back with joint-like articulations and curve around the body to eventually connect to the bony sternum. Read More…
Background: The 12 pairs of ribs that comprise the ribcage provide protection for various internal organs. Such ribs are divided into three types, sternal ribs, costal ribs and floating ribs. These descriptive terms refer to how these bony distal extensions from the spine connect. Ribs #1 through #7 wrap around the chest and connect 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...