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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 nose can have a wide variety of shapes due to its complex interdigitating anatomy. The nasal bones, septum, upper and lateral alar cartilages create a diverse group of external nasal shapes. Where the greatest variability in anatomic shapes exists is in the nasal tip where the confluence of the lower alar cartilages and septum Read More…
While reshaping of the nose is permanently done by a surgical rhinoplasty, temporary changes can be achieved with injectable fillers. While an injectable or non-surgical rhinoplasty can not accomplish the diverse number of changes that surgery can do, it can be effective in specific augmentative nose changes. Fillers work well for increasing tip projection, eliminating Read More…
Rhinoplasty is one of the oldest procedures in plastic surgery as the well understood term ‘nosejob’ implies. One of the most basic maneuvers in this surgery is the reduction of a hump to achieve a straighter dorsal profile. Most techniques to reduce a hump are from the ‘top down’ by excision and the nasal bones Read More…
Background: The use of implants in the nose has a long history, some of which is checkered with complications. One of the very unique aspects of putting an implant in the nose is that its soft tissue cover is thin. Given the basic effect of placing a structurally stable and unchanging dimensions of a synthetic Read More…
The use of cartilage grafts is essential in many types of nose surgeries of which Asian rhinoplasty is a prime example. With smaller nasal frameworks and tighter enveloping skin, substantial augmentation efforts are often needed. Cartilage grafts are preferred and rib grafts are the most common autologous harvest site. But not every patient wants a Read More…
Background: Feminization of the nose typically implies certain featural changes. Amongst them includes a a narrow nose in the front view and a lower dorsal line with upward tip rotation in the profile view. The degree of these changes is what influences the degree of nasal feminization and the patient’s perception of them. The reduction Read More…
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…
Aesthetic rhinoplasty is one of the oldest forms of facial plastic surgery and has been done for over one hundred years around the world. It has been performed in many different ethnic groups by surgeons of those same ethnic groups. As a result nuances in the desired shapes of the nose and the techniques to Read More…
In augmentation rhinoplasty of significance, the choice is always between using a rib graft vs an implant. Each options has their own specific advantages and disadvantages. The benefits of using an implant are avoiding a donor site harvest, less operative time, and an assured straightness to the shape of the implant. But like all implants Read More…
Rhinoplasty, like every other facial reshaping surgery, poses challenges in achieving exactly the result the patient desires. Thus it is no surprise that the revision rates in rhinoplasty are not low. A result can look just fine early after surgery to eventually progress to irregularities and asymmetries as full healing and scar contracture exert their 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...