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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...
Injectable fat grafting is widely used for many aesthetic and reconstructive indications. Considerable debate and research has gone into how to best create predictable fat graft volume survival. Every aspect of harvest, preparation and injection technique has been evaluated with varying opinions amongst surgeon evaluators on what is best. One method of improving fat graft Read More…
Fat grafting is the primary surgical technique to soft tissue augmentation of the face. The addition of fat cells has the potential to add retained volume while the presence of adipose-derived stem cells offers the opportunity for tissue regeneration. Such tissue regenerative effects may be able to be seen in the overlying skin with an Read More…
The shape of eyebrows in women has changed over the years. While eyebrows used to be desired to be thinner, the fuller eyebrow is more popular today. The first step to fuller eyebrows is to stop the tweezing and waxing which thins out the hair follicles and slows down their growth. Various serums or Read More…
Injectable Fat-grafting, also known as lipofilling, has become a standard plastic surgery treatment in a wide variety of aesthetic and reconstructive needs of the face and body. Although technical improvements have increased the concentration of fat cells injected, the amount of fat graft survival is still unpredictable and far less than 100%. Various methods have been Read More…
Hair loss due to genetics in men and women is known as androgenetic alopecia and is extremely common. A wide variety of methods have been used to treat this type of hair loss of which the pharmacologic treatments have been the most successful. At the least they are the most documented by scientific scrutiny having Read More…
PRP (platelet-rich plasma) has earned a role in a variety of facial rejuvenation procedures. One of its most well recognized uses due to social media and marketing is in the Vampire Facelift procedure. Its name is an obvious spinoff of the use of PRP which requires a blood draw to create the platelet concentrate. It Read More…
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injections have come into vogue to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. It has also become popular in aesthetic surgery as part of the ever expanding number of non-surgical and minimally invasive treatment options. Since PRP is a blood extract it is perceived as a natural healing and rejuvenative therapy. Read More…
Background: The nasopalatine cyst is a well known pathology of the maxilla that often presents as an asymptomatic anterior palatal swelling. It usually develops behind the maxillary incisors and is thought to be caused by the ductal tissue within the incisive canals. It appears radiographically as a round or heart-shaped mass in occlusal plane or Read More…
Fat grafting is one of the great innovations in plastic surgery of the past decade as a stand alone procedure or as a complement to many other plastic surgery procedures. As a natural graft material with usually good availability, it is an unrivaled aesthetic and reconstructive soft tissue reconstruction method. But despite its many Read More…
Darkening of the eyelids, known as periorbital hyperpigmentation, is when excess pigment develops on the eyelids. While it can occur on either the upper and lower eyelids, and often involves both, it is most common and aesthetically troublesome on the lower eyelids. Its causes is not exactly known and is multifactorial and has been ascribed 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...