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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 wide or light bulb shaped head is caused by a combination of excessive bone and soft tissue. The temporal muscle makes up a significant part of the width of the head particularly at the anterior temporal area. (temporal fossa) It is disproportionately wide compared to the cheek and jaw bony widths below it. Read More…
Background: There are a variety of established aesthetic head shape deformities that have been assigned well known names. One of these is that of scaphocephaly or a boat-shaped head which is a literal translation of the name. Because a boat is long and narrow this is exactly how such a head shape appears. In the Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is one of the most recognized skull shape abnormalities. It refers to a twisted skull, as seen from above, most commonly with a counter clockwise rotation. While it affects the entire skull shape, including all five of its surfaces, its greatest impact is on the back of the head. A profound unilateral flattening Read More…
Background: The sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull prominence whose presence is magnified in the male with short hair or a shaved head. The sagittal crest comes in a wide variety of presentations from a small bump to a long elongated ridge. In many sagittal crests the head shape has an inverted V shape Read More…
Background: The narrow head shape is defined as having a decreased bi-temporal and bi-parietal bony skull widths. These can be determined by actual measurements but, more importantly, it can be seen from the outside as well as just looking at a 3D CT skull scan of the patient. The narrow head shape may often involves Read More…
Background: The back of the head is composed of multiple skull segments of which the occipital bone is a major component. The occipital bone is a non-paired bone that occupies the lower 2/3s of the skull in the back of the head. It is also the primary bone of which many neck muscles attach. As Read More…
Certain head shapes are known to have a wide skull width. This is particularly evident in those skulls that have a brachycephalic tendency. (flat back of the head) With a flat and wide back of the head the sides are pushed outward creating a noticeable wide skull from the front and back views. This increased Read More…
Background: Excessive projection on the back of the head is a common request for skull reduction. Consideration for whether such skull reduction can be a good aesthetic procedure is how much reduction can be achieved and where is the incisional access going to be to do it. The effectiveness of the procedure depends on how Read More…
Background: There are a variety of types of narrow head shapes which vary based on the extent of bitemporal width reduction and how it affects the shape of the front and back of the head. In more complete manifestations the head is narrow from front to back and either the forehead or the parieto-occipital is Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of skull shape deformations almost all of which have a congenital origin. While the craniosynostosis skull shapes are the most recognized and are reconstructive procedures for their correction (bone removal and reshaping) most skull shape concerns are less severe and are more of an aesthetic concern. Despite their far 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...