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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...
The popularity of injectable fillers is undeniable. Adding instant volume to small lips, deepened nasolabial folds or deflated cheeks is truly a marvel of contemporary aesthetic treatments. But besides cost, the number one reason more people don’t take advantage of these facial volumizers is because it hurts to get it done. Like dentistry, the Read More…
Adding to the ever expanding array of injectable fillers, the recent FDA approval of Belotero Balance by Merz adds another material treatment option for the aesthetic correction of facial wrinkles and folds. Belotero Balance is a monophasic double cross-linked hyauronic-acid gel that has a low viscosity with variable amounts of cross-linking. One of the Read More…
Scars remain a challenging problem. This is demonstrated by the sheer number of scar treatment products and strategies that exist, all of which claim to offer improved scar outcomes. A new scar device, called Embrace by Neodyne Biosciences, has released study results which show improvement in abdominoplasty scars. The Embrace device is an FDA-approved Read More…
A surgical facelift is the most effective and common method for eliminating those jowls, smoothing out the jawline and sharpening the neck angle. It does so by moving the loose skin that has fallen down off of the face and shifting it back towards the ears were it can be trimmed off, leaving fine line Read More…
Lip augmentation is one of the most popular minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures of the face. Done almost exclusively with injectable fillers, it produces instantaneous augmentation of the vermilion-cutaneous junction or the lip body proper. Of last year’s nearly 2 million injectable filler treatments performed in the U.S., a significant percent of them was for lip enhancement. Read More…
Breast implants remain a popular plastic surgery procedure with over 350,000 women being implanted last year in the U.S. alone. Up until several months ago, only two U.S. manufacturers existed after many other producers folded from the breast implant controversy from the early 1990s. Allergan and Johnson & Johnson (subdivision Mentor) have maintained a duality Read More…
Liposuction provides the most effective method of body contouring that we currently know. Its invasive approach is the direct subcutaneous disruption of fatty deposits followed by their vacuum extraction. The final result is a combination of the fat removed and how the overlying skin shrinks and adapts to its reduced underlying support structure. While effective, Read More…
Cellulite remains the cosmetic bain of many women even those who otherwise have good size to their thighs and buttocks. While the anatomy of cellulite is well understood, why it is there and what causes it is not. Even worse is that a truly effective treatment for it remains elusive. The sheer fact that dozens Read More…
Device-based energy therapies for skin tightening and fat reduction have been around now for about a decade. Like computer and all electronic devices, their effectiveness improves with technologic advances. One of the recent device advances in heating fat and tightening skin is Exilis technology. This uses a well known energy technology, radiofrequency, to create its Read More…
One of the most difficult problems to improve, let alone solve, in cosmetic plastic surgery is that of cellulite. It is particularly frustrating given that there are large numbers of women who are afflicted with cellulite and would love to invest in an effective treatment. While there have been a significant number of device-based technologies 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...