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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 back of the head is the most common area for elective aesthetic skull augmentation. For a variety of reasons the back of the head is prone to lack of projection, asymmetries and bony irregularities. These issues are particularly apparent in men due to short hair, no hair or a shaved head. As a Read More…
Background: Unlike skull reconstruction elective aesthetic skull augmentation has a much more limited history. Due to an historic low demand and limited options for performing it building up areas of the skull has relied on the use of bone cement, mainly PMMA. (acrylic) By history such bone cements were initially made for reconstruction of skull Read More…
Background: A high or prominent sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull shape concern. Theoretically it can appear anywhere along the length of the congenital sagittal suture line from the bregma anteriorly to the lambda posteriorly. But in all cases I have ever seen it occurs from the bregma back to the crown of the Read More…
Background: The desire for aesthetic skull augmentation can be for multiple skull shape concerns. In females one of the most common is for an increased crown of the head height. There is often a predicate history of hairstyle methods to increase the appearance of the crown of head height, which can be successful, but involves Read More…
Background: Scaphocephaly is a general term that literally means a boat-shaped head. Dimensionally this means an elongated front to back head length that is invariably associated with a narrow head width as well. This can occur in non-syndromic patients but the expression of the altered head shape is more mild in presentation than in syndromic Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of aesthetic skull shape deformations that can be divided into either deficiencies or excesses. The excess category may be called protrusions and some are seen in profile where they violate the ‘Golden Arc’ of the skull. This arc is the shape and distance of the head from the nasion Read More…
Background: All areas of the skull can be aesthetically augmented with custom designed implants…the most effective method to do so. Augmenting the side of the head is unique, however, because most of it is covered by muscle and not bone. The most important landmark for the side of the head augmentation is the bony temporal Read More…
Background: There are a variety of raised bony skull areas that present aesthetic deformities which patients request to be reduced. One of the most common is the midline sagittal ridge. While it could occur anywhere along the length of the sagittal suture, and may even involve the entire length of the suture, but most commonly Read More…
Background: Traditional temporal augmentation surgery addresses the hollowing that occurs by the side of the eye outside the lateral orbital rim. (non-hair bearing skin) This is the most common temporal or side of the head deficiency which represents lack of adequate soft tissue (muscle or fat) which comprises the anterior temporal fossa. (concavity) Several Read More…
Background: The skull is a collection of differing curved bone shapes that create an ovoid shape that is somewhat similar to that of an egg. (wider in the back than in the front) But because of its complex shape and the large number of developmental factors that come into play in its formation skull asymmetries 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...