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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: 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…
Background: Overgrowths of the skull can occur in numerous areas from frontal bossing anteriorly to occipital buns posteriorly. Some have classic appearances and descriptions as in the aforementioned while others are less well known. One of these less well known overgrowths is the elevated or over projecting crown of the head. Somewhat like that of Read More…
Background: The occipital bone is one of eight cranial bones that make up the skull. It makes up the lower half of the visible back of head but what is seen is less than half of its entire size. The rest goes under the neck muscles and wraps around the vertebrae and spinal cord. Given Read More…
In large skull augmentations there is a necessity for expanding the scalp to accommodate its volume. This is done by a first stage scalp expander process using a specially designed ‘balloon’ that acts much like the pregnancy process. While the expander requires surgical placement the expansion process is done by the patient over the following Read More…
Background: The concept of skull reduction is like the reduction of almost any skeletal structure in the body…there are limits. The length and thickness of the anatomy is one controlling factor along with how well the overlying soft tissues shrink and contract down around the reduced bone. Thus most aesthetic reductions have to be given 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...