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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...
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…
The back of the head is typically called the occiput or occipital bone. But anatomically this is inaccurate as only the lower central part of the back of the head is the occipital bone. Much of the back of the head is the parietal bone which lies above the inverted v-shaped lambdoid sutures. Appreciating the Read More…
Augmenting depressed contours of the skull can be done by a variety of materials. When placing any skull augmentation material the two key elements of importance are assurance of the desired contour and a limited scalp incisional scar to do so. It is important to differentiate reconstructive skull thickness restoration from aesthetic skull contouring. The Read More…
Aesthetic augmentations of the head can be most effectively done using a custom skull implant approach. Using the patient’s 3D CT scan implants can be designed to contour large surface areas of the external skull bone surface. While these skull implant designs can be made of any of the traditional materials, solid silicone is the Read More…
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…
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...