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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 and concerns about its shape account for almost half of aesthetic skull reshaping patients in my experience. Concerns typical involve asymmetries from plagiocephaly, various types of occipital bone protrusions (knobs and buns) and flattening of part or all of the back of the head. The two techniques for back Read More…
Background: Augmentation of large surface areas of the skull can only effectively be done with custom skull implant designs. They can be made to cover any aspect of the head whether it be the top, front, back or the sides. While top, front and back of the skull is only bone, the sides of the Read More…
Background: While the shape of the skull is generally round over most of its surfaces, this round shape can be affected by a variety of congenital sources. Premature fusion of the cranial sutures and external deformation forces are the most common reasons abnormal (non-round, flat or concave) skull shapes occur. One of the most under Read More…
A flat back of the head is typically treated by skull augmentation, most commonly done by a custom implant design. In doing many of these back of head augmentations one quickly becomes aware that the location of the bone on the back of the head is much higher than almost anyone realizes. It does not Read More…
Custom skull implants provide an unparalleled ability to reshape the head when an augmentative effect is needed. Whether the implant augmentation is completely on bone or involves resting on the soft tissues on the side of the head, the ability of the implant to produce a smooth contour that blends into the surrounding skull surface’s Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known aesthetic head shape deformity in which the origin of the name means twisted skull. When viewed from above the skull shape is also often called cranioscoliosis based on its axis of rotation. in the majority of cases this rotation is counter clockwise, meaning the right back of the head Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known congenital head shape deformity that typically occurs from external deformational forces. Because the most common deformational force on the head in a baby is positioning (laying on one side), the back of the head is most affected. This is typically seen with one side of the back of the Read More…
Background: While the most common non-synostotic congenital skull deformity is plagiocephaly, less commonly seen is its ‘cousin’ brachycephaly. As opposed to a unilateral flattening on the back of the head in plagiocephaly, brachycephaly is when the entire back of the head is flat. While it can have synostotic origins like some forms of plagiocephaly most Read More…
Background: While bony bumps can appear on the skull at any location for a variety of reasons, the most classic and consistent skull bump is the occipital knob. This discrete bump of bone occurs at the base of the skull at the back of the head in the midline. It is consistent in its location Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull is typically perceived as a smooth curved on all sides. And this is relatively accurate with the exception of the front and back of the head. In men the inferior part of the forehead will have some degree of brow bone prominence on the lower due the developmental the 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...