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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 brachycephalic skull shape is primarily identified by its effects on the back of the head. A more complete flatness occurs in brachycephaly than in plagiocephaly with the classic very flat and wide back of the head. The increased width may be partially illusionary because of the lack of projection but there is usually Read More…
Background: The skull can develop various areas of flatness or underdevelopment. Such flat areas of the head are particularly common on the back of the head. While the most common back of the head deficiency is due to plagiocephaly, with one side of the back of the head being flat, such lack of skull projection Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull has been described as most aesthetic if it follows the Golden Ratio. This is described as the length and shape of two arcs between the nasion and the inion subdivided by the bregma in profile. These two profile arcs, the bregma-inion (BI) and nasion-bregma (NB), ideally should be in Read More…
Background: The skull is an overall oblong shape that has five distinct surfaces to it. (front, back , top and two sides) The main anatomic ‘dividing line’ between all of these surface of the bony temporal line. This is a distinct raised ridge of bone that starts at the tail of the brow bone anteriorly Read More…
Background: The skull is a collection of numerous curved shapes that appear most prominently when viewed from oblique angles of the head. Such head curvatures are particularly seen in the bald or shaved head male. (the latter in particular) One of these head angles or curvatures of the hairless male head is in the oblique Read More…
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…
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...