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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...
Management of surgical skin incisions has drawn a tremendous amount of research and studies to develop strategies, mainly topical applications, to improve the ultimate appearance of the scars. Numerous topical agents are used today and there is considerable debate as what is the best scar therapy. Less frequently evaluated and, in the spirit of prevention Read More…
Background: A tracheostomy is an urgent surgical procedure to establish a payment airway below the level of the thyroid cartilage and vocal cords. How long a tracheostomy stays is variable based on the reason it was initially inserted but eventually most are removed. When the tracheostomy is removed the resultant wound its allowed to heal Read More…
Background: Improvement of scars is a common request for which a variety of techniques exist to do so. Surgical treatment is indicated when the scars are hypertrophic (raised and wide) or have a depressed contour to them. Laser and various injection therapies have a role when scars are generally flat and improvement is needed in Read More…
Background: Scars from traumatic facial injuries are common and those that appear on the forehead are often the most visible. Besides the exposed broad surface of the forehead what makes the scars stand out are the horizontal wrinkle lines that traverse them. Initially present only during animation everyone eventually develops them at rest as well. Read More…
Background: Testicular cancer results in lost of the affected testicle which is often is not replaced at the same time. Ensuring that the cancer is completely gone takes precedence over a normal appearing scrotum. When a testicular implant can be placed depends on when the cancer surgeon feels it is appropriate to do but often Read More…
Self-harm scars are a well known form of deliberate injury, usually to the forearms and in young people. These scars are often not an attempt at suicide but an expression of emotional/psychological distress. Their appearance is classic in that they are multiple and in a perpendicular direction to the longitudinal axis of the forearm. There Read More…
Background: Soft tissue trauma is not uncommon around the prominent brow bone region of the upper third of the face. When the eyebrow soft tissues are compressed against the edge of the brow bone usually the soft tissue will separate before the bone fractures creating a laceration. Because this laceration involves a hair bearing area, Read More…
Background: Implants are the only assured permanent method of lip augmentation. The current style of lip implants is the best version of such implants that have been used to date. Like many other silicone facial implants they offer the ability to be easily inserted as well as removed. But this important quality is also fraught Read More…
Scarring of the face is common both from traumatic injuries as well as from aesthetic surgeries. The difference between aesthetic surgery and traumatic facial scars is their location. Most aesthetic surgery facial scars are placed in such locations to be relatively inconspicuous as opposed to those from trauma in which the patient has no control. Read More…
Scars are the result of all elective aesthetic incisions or any method that wounds the skin’s surface. How well any scar will heal depends on a wide variety of factors from its anatomic location, skin thickness, natural degree of pigmentation, and the method that was used to both make the skin injury as well as 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...