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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: Many types of skull reduction procedures are what I call ‘spot’ reductions. This means that specific raised areas of the skull can be selectively reduced by a bone burring technique. These include such areas as occipital knobs, forehead horns and sagittal crests to name some of the most common spot skull reduction areas. They Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is controlled largely by the thickness and contours of the skull bones. While the skull is often perceived as being a uniform set of bones encasing the brain, it varies considerably across its five surfaces. (forehead, top of head, back of head and paired temporal regions) The back of Read More…
The use of custom skull implants is a standard and effective method in my practice for almost all types of aesthetic skull augmentations. While any shape and size of custom skull implant can be designed that does not mean, however, that it can be successfully placed. The scalp is a tight enveloping soft tissue layer Read More…
Custom skull implant designs are the most effective approach to just about any aesthetic head augmentation problem. By using a preformed implant with a design based on the patient’s 3D skull CT scan the desired head shape change is more likely to be achieved than using older bone cement techniques where intraoperative hand shaping of Read More…
Background: The shape of the back of the head is often overlooked when there is hair to cover it. But for men who have limited hair coverage or, even more relevantly a shaved head, the shape of the back of the head takes on almost as much aesthetic significance as the front of the head. Read More…
Custom skull implants are the premier method of aesthetic skull augmentation. They are superior to older style bone cement skull augmentations due to the ability to achieve a much more significant augmentation effect and an assured smooth shape through a small incision. Because it is an implant one of the most common questions from patients Read More…
All forms of skull reshaping surgery require incisions to perform them. Like most of aesthetic surgery the access incisions and the scars that they create are a tradeoff to achieve the desired aesthetic result. While in many procedures these scars are fairly hidden and do not represent a visible tradeoff, such can not be said Read More…
Background: Flatness and asymmetries of the back of the head are some of the most common head reshaping concerns. This is particularly relevant in the male who has a shaved head or very closely cropped haircut. Such patients make up the vast majority of back of the head reshaping surgeries. Men early in their life Read More…
Background: There are a wide variety of adult skull shape deformities some of which fit into standard shapes. One of these is the peaked head shape which can be easily recognized. When seen frontally the head has an inverted V shape or looks like a rooftop. This appears as a high sagittal ridge with narrow Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is the most well known congenital/developmental skull deformity outside that of the craniosynostoses. Because the skull shape deformations may be mild to moderate in severity and there are no functional neurologic sequelae associated with them, it is presumed by some patients and practitioners in particular that there is no reasonable treatment for 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...