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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: Aesthetic nasal deformities come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. While plastic surgeons have anatomic terminology to describe these nasal deformities, patients refer to them in much simpler and more visually apparent descriptions. It is extremely common that a patient presents for a rhinoplasty that wants to improve their ‘fat nose’. Read More…
Rhinoplasty is well known to be one, if not the most, challenging of all aesthetic plastic surgery operations. Surveys of plastic surgeons verify this historic belief and it is as true today as it was decades ago. It is one of the few plastic surgery procedures where entire educational courses and textbooks are devoted to Read More…
The concept of injectable treatments has expanded to a wide variety of aesthetic facial uses over the past decade. From a single site enlargement like the lips to more extensive facial rejuvenation, injections offer an easy way to quickly add volume. Even the nose, once a basion of being changed exclusively by surgical manipulation, Read More…
Rhinoplasty is a well known aesthetic facial procedure that has a not insignificant risk of revision. Because the nose occupies the central area of the face, it understandably undergoes a lot of scrutiny, particularly after reshaping. When combined with the complex anatomy of the nose and the variability in how it can heal and Read More…
It is generally accepted that the first recorded plastic surgery performed was for the nose in India as found in ancient Sanskrit texts around 600 B.C. Noses were lost then as a form of punishment (ears were also) for crimes or in battle. From the text Sushruta Samhita, the Hindu surgeon Sushruta describes transferring Read More…
Background: Noses have an incredible variety of shapes and are the most diverse and complex structural feature of the face. With over a dozen different anatomic facets to them, it is no wonder how different one’s nose is from another. But despite this structural diversity, there are several features of a nose that are Read More…
Background: The dorsal line of the nose, often referred to as the bridge, looks best in most people when it is straight from the top of the nose down to the tip. Disruptions of a straight dorsal line is one of the most common reasons people seek rhinoplasty, usually because a hump exists creating Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty involves potential manipulation of all components of the nose. One of the most common areas of change is of the hump or bump on the nose. While frequently though of as just, the nasal hump is actually a combination of bone and cartilage and the highest peak of the hump often represents Read More…
The need for augmentation and support in rhinoplasty is common. Whether it is building up the dorsum, adding supporting to the columella or reconstructing the middle vault with spreader grafts, adding volume is a common cosmetic and reconstructive need. The need for volume is most magnified in many ethnic rhinoplasties where an entire dorso-columellar Read More…
The use of implants in aesthetic and reconstructive rhinoplasty is unavoidable in many cases. The term ‘implant’ can be interpreted several ways. Most commonly it is perceived as being composed of a synthetic material. The term ‘graft’ implies that it is a naturally harvested material. But both synthetic materials and bone and cartilage grafts 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...