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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: Plagiocephaly is a common and most recognized developmental skull shape deformity. It is typically seen as a flattening on one side of the back of the head that wraps around the side onto the posterior temporal region. This is why the ear on the affected side is always displaced a bit more forward. In Read More…
Background: The back of the head is frequently called the occiput or occipital region of the skull. While there is anatomic truth in that statement, it is a bit overstated. The occipital bone actually only makes up the lower central area of the back of the head with its superior borders being the inverted v-pattern Read More…
Background: The dominant feature of the back of the head that is rarely seen is that of the inion. This small protrusion of bone emanates from the underside of the mid-occipital bone and exists as a source of musculoligamentous attachments. It exists in both men and women and is of variable sizes. When it becomes Read More…
Background: Skull implants represent a new type of aesthetic augmentation procedure in the ability to reshape one’s head. Just like any other face or body feature, however, there are gender specific types of changes that apply to the head as well. While women’s head shapes are overall smaller as would be expected, their bone thicknesses Read More…
Flatness of the back of the head is the single most common patient concern when a skull shape deficiency exists. The flatness can be on one side or both or can be higher or lower but it is always about lack of enough prominence or projection on the back of the head. In evaluating back Read More…
Aesthetic skull shape abnormalities are not rare and their presence and significance is up to the interpretation of the patient…like all aesthetic concerns. While aesthetic face and body shape concerns are more common and as a result better appreciated, head shape concerns in my experience are unique. Affecting men more frequently than women (80:20) due Read More…
The use of custom skull implants has made a wide range of aesthetic head shape changes possible. Using 3D scans and design software implants can be designed for any skull surface(s) to create the desired effect. Such skull implants are far larger than any type of facial implants and their introduction through scalp incisions must Read More…
The skull, like any other face or body area, can be augmented. Unlike the face and body, however, fat injection grafting is not a reliable technique to do so. For very small areas of indentation or contour deficiency such fat grafting may be effective. But for more major types of skull augmentation it is not Read More…
Background: The back of the head is composed of the central lower occipital bone and the upper paired parietal bones. It also represents at its most projection point the intersection of the sagittal and lambdoidal sutures. It is much more anatomically complex in its development than its frontal counterpart of the forehead. It is also Read More…
Aesthetic skull augmentation refers to adding a material on top of the outer cranial surface (onlay) to create a change in the shape of the head. This concept can be applied any of the five skull surfaces. (front, back, sides and top) This should not be confused with the more well known techniques used in 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...