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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 appearance of the head can be affected by multiple types of skull bone changes. Such changes affect the various curved contours of the skull through either a lack of projection (flatness) or too much projection. (protrusion or prominence) A common flattened area of the skull is on the back of the head due Read More…
Background: The shape of the back of the skull is particularly prone to developing undesired changes in its shape. Flattening and asymmetries are the results of in utero and postnatal deformational forces which can prevent a rounded head shape. While one form of flatness of the back of head is known as brachycephaly due to Read More…
Background: Whether it is laying in utero or after birth the back of the head is exposed to the greatest duration of external forces or pressure. As a result of this external force exposure the back of the head has several anatomic features that distinguish it from other head area. First the occipital bone is Read More…
Background: The back of the head is the most common area for elective aesthetic skull augmentation. For a variety of reasons the back of the head is prone to lack of projection, asymmetries and bony irregularities. These issues are particularly apparent in men due to short hair, no hair or a shaved head. As a Read More…
Background: Unlike skull reconstruction elective aesthetic skull augmentation has a much more limited history. Due to an historic low demand and limited options for performing it building up areas of the skull has relied on the use of bone cement, mainly PMMA. (acrylic) By history such bone cements were initially made for reconstruction of skull Read More…
Background: A high or prominent sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull shape concern. Theoretically it can appear anywhere along the length of the congenital sagittal suture line from the bregma anteriorly to the lambda posteriorly. But in all cases I have ever seen it occurs from the bregma back to the crown of the Read More…
Background: The desire for aesthetic skull augmentation can be for multiple skull shape concerns. In females one of the most common is for an increased crown of the head height. There is often a predicate history of hairstyle methods to increase the appearance of the crown of head height, which can be successful, but involves Read More…
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…
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...