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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: Custom skull implants provide the most effective form of aesthetic head shape augmentation.While the preoperative computer design process allows a skull implant to be created in just about any shape there are limits as to its size or thickness. The overlying scalp does not have limitless stretch and its response to underlying volumetric effects Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull reshaping surgery consists of a wide variety of reductive and augmentative procedure for head shape concerns. One of the most common augmentative procedures is for the back of the head using a custom designed skull implant. This is done for concerns of asymmetry, lack of adequate projection or a combination of both. Read More…
Custom skull implants provide a contemporary method of aesthetic skull augmentation for a wide variety of head shape deficiencies. While the most common material for such custom skull implant is solid silicone, no skull augmentation material composition will allow tissue ingrowth. Tissue ingrowth should not be confused with tissue adhesion. Tissue ingrowth is where an Read More…
Background: One of the most recognized skull abnormalities is plagiocephaly. This is a term that literally means ‘twisted skull’ or medically known as cranioscoliosis. When viewed from above the head looks lopsided or rotated. This is typically seen as a flatness on one side of the back of the head with an associated forehead protrusion Read More…
The skull can have a wide variety of shapes from being too small to too big. One of the common unaesthetic skull shapes is a head that is too narrow. This is seen as a head width from the sides of the forehead to the back of the head that is skinny in appearance. This Read More…
Background: The skull generally has a smooth convex shape of various arcs on its five surfaces. Abnormal and unaesthetic bony prominences do occur and are often associated along the lines of the sutures due to developmental bony overgrowth. The sutures are active sites of bone formation in the early years and the interplay between the Read More…
Custom skull implants designed from a 3D CT scan are the most effective method for creating any type of aesthetic head augmentation. While designing such implants seems simple, it is not. The large convex surfaces of the skull offers ample opportunity for implant coverage and varying thicknesses but there are no design guidelines in any Read More…
Background: The occipital knob is for many one of the most smallest of the aesthetic skull deformities. While its surface area is relatively small the degree of protrusion it creates can be significant. Besides its aesthetic prominence it can also cause some discomfort for some when laying on it and be an impediment in the Read More…
The introduction of hydroxyapatite bone cements (HAC) in the 1990s, based upon an extensive experimental and clinical history of proven osteoconductive responses in maxillofacial surgery as granules and blocks in the 1980s, was a welcome alternative to acrylic (methyl methacrylate) in cranioplasty and skull augmentations.The ability to intraoperatively mix and mold a liquid and powder Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is typically rounder regardless of the view to which it is seen. In the profile view it has an oblong curved convex shape. When seen from behind the shape of the head is fairly round. When looked at front the front, which is how most people see their head, 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...