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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: Having done hundreds of shoulder narrowing (clavicle reduction osteotomies) surgeries, many for transgender and a few for cis-females, there are certain anatomic observations I have made. The first is that most people’s shoulders are not not symmetric. One side is often longer and, as a result, higher than the other side. This is not Read More…
Background: Wide shoulder dysphoria is not uncommon in transfemales for which clavicle reduction osteotomies provides an effective treatment for it. The major recovery issue in such shoulder reduction surgery is the limited use of the arms in the early recovery. Keeping the arms from full abduction and extension avoids a distraction effect on the reunited Read More…
Background: In clavicle reduction surgery one becomes aware that the paired clavicles are not often symmetric. Clavicle lengths are known by numerous anatomic studies to be different between the two sides. My clinical experience confirms this is accurate and careful examination has shown how frequent clavicle length asymmetries are. The longer clavicle length can be Read More…
Background: The clavicle bone has far more complex morphologic features that is usually perceived. It is the only long bone in the body, meaning a bone that is longer than it is wide, that has a horizontal orientation. I have rBesides being a non-straight curvilinear bone with two curved ends its thickness varies along its Read More…
Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery by clavicle reduction osteotomies is an effective treatment for shoulder dysphoria but poses a unique recovery process. Unlike a clavicle fracture in which only one side is injured in shoulder narrowing surgery both sides are affected. This poses significant early after surgery arm restriction movements for the first few weeks after Read More…
One of the unmentioned sequelae of shoulder narrowing surgery is temporary numbness of the upper chest. Since shoulder narrowing is a bilateral procedure such numbness on both sides of the upper chest is common. Although it causes no functional issues and usually slowly resolves a few months after the surgery an anatomic explanation is helpful Read More…
Background: Shoulder dysphoria is a perception that the width of one’s shoulders is disproportionately wide compared to other body features and dimensions. It is particularly associated with the transfemale population where the width of the shoulders can be a particularly sensitive issue in how the body is seen. There are anthropometric measurements for shoulder width Read More…
For a shoulder narrowing effect shortening of the length of the clavicle is needed. This is done by removing a segment of the clavicle bone which, when put back together, pulls the shoulder inward. Because the bone is cut and plates and screws applied to enable the bone to heal across the cut line, it Read More…
Background: The immediate success of shoulder reduction is one of a consistent improvement that patients see as a good aesthetic improvement. Such a reductive shoulder shape change is seen immediately after surgery and is not affected by postoperative swelling which is at the inner half of the clavicle. This makes clavicle reduction surgery unique in Read More…
Background: While there are many bony structural procedures of the face, there are very few on the body. Those that do exist, however, are bony in nature and consist of shoulder, rib and iliac bony changes. In the transfemale patient population in particular shoulder and waist reductions are desired to help create more body contour 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...