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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 controlled by many anatomic components but one of the most significant is that of the septum. Serving as the central support for all of the nasal structures on top of it, its aesthetic contribution is in largely controlling the height of the bridge and the projection of the Read More…
Rhinoplasty surgery has tremendous capabilities of changing the shape of the nose. In doing so there are many tried and true techniques of how to do it successfully as well as how to maintain the result long term. Despite the many techniques available to change the structural framework of the nose, there are no established Read More…
Background: Making a nose smaller is a fairly common request in patients seeking rhinoplasty surgery. Most of these requests often refer to one specific nasal feature, such as a reduction of a prominent hump or a large nasal tip. The goal is to bring back the larger unaesthetic nasal feature into proportion with the rest Read More…
Background: Rhinoplasty is a very well known facial plastic surgery procedure. It is what I call the original facial reshaping procedure in which it changes a structural or foundational area of facial anatomy whose impact can be a major change in a person’s appearance. Because it is a structural procedure in which the bony and Read More…
In the November 2021 issue of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal an article was published on ‘Why Primary Rhinoplasty Fails’. A previous discussion of their preoperative factors that contribute to undesired rhinoplasty outcomes has been done. Now onward to discuss the intraoperative techniques to help prevent common postoperative rhinoplasty problems. INTRAOPERATIVE Creating A Read More…
Rhinoplasty is well known to be a challenging facial reshaping surgery. This is because of its many anatomic components and the lack of an exact science as to how their alteration and healing will translate into the patient’s desired aesthetic effect. Considerable debate has existed for decades as to which approach to rhinoplasty, open vs Read More…
The open rhinoplasty is the most commonly used approach to nose reshaping surgery due to the operative visibility that it provides. The external skin incision located on the columella, which is really the smallest length of the incision needed for an open rhinoplasty, is however the most visible. Back in the day when the open Read More…
Background: One of the classic debates in augmentative rhinoplasty is whether it should be done by either an alloplastic or autogenous technique. This debate has gone on for many decades and the reality is that it is not really a debate at all. Rather it should be a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of Read More…
Background: Besides the lip and palate, the classic and common orofacial cleft affects the nose as well. Even though the cleft does not run directly through the external nose it does affect the floor of the nose (palate) which, through deviations of the septum, has extended effects through the middle vault and the alar cartilages Read More…
Rhinoplasty surgery is fundamentally about changing the osteocartilaginous structural support of the nose. The eventual aesthetic result becomes how the overlying skin shrinks down around the reshaped nasal structure. While this is an accurate assessment for much of the nose, it is not completely accurate for certain component parts of the nose. One such part 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...