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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 concept of an injectable cranioplasty to augment various areas of the skull has tremendous appeal. Avoiding scalp incisions has an obvious benefit as well as limiting the magnitude of the surgery. Having worked years ago at trying to develop this surgical technique, it was eventually abandoned due to not being able to solve the Read More…
Background: In an era where it is common to see an adult male with a shaved head or a very closely cropped haircut, the shape of the head takes on great aesthetic significance. Not only are large head shape issues glaringly apparent but small ones that would normally never be seen with a head of Read More…
Background: The size of one’s head or shape of the skull is usually congenitally controlled. While microcephaly is a pathologic skull development condition that restricts brain development, some patients have small narrow heads but not true microcephaly. Sometimes called ‘peanut heads’ and often having issues with wearing hats or helmets their head shape might be Read More…
Background: A sagittal ridge skull deformity is most commonly perceived as its fullest expression with sagittal craniosynotosis in an infant. But there are greater numbers of patients affected by lesser or more ‘aesthetic’ sagittal deformities where the height of the sagittal crest and the degree of parasagittal depression along the sides is much less severe. Read More…
Aesthetic augmentation of the head can now be effectively done using custom skull implants made from a 3D CT scan. With 3D designing software the zone of skull augmentation can be clearly identified and an implant designed to cover it and create an improved head shape. This is a far superior technique to the use Read More…
Custom skull implants can be designed in virtually any shape or thickness. But just because it can be so designed does not mean that it can be safely placed or maintained. The ultimate success of any skull implant, particularly larger ones, is that the overlying scalp must have adequate stretch to accommodate it. This is Read More…
Augmentation of the outer contours of the skull, commonly referred to as cranioplasty, has been done using a wide variety of biomaterials. The different types of materials used speaks to the great tolerance of this body area to implants in general and is the result of the superb blood supply of the scalp and skull Read More…
Background: Early cranial vault surgery for a variety of congenital craniosynostosis disorders has been done for over thirty years. Such surgery is done at an early because the bone is thin enough to be able to be removed and reshaped and the dura covering of the brain has some remaining osteogenic potential. This means that Read More…
Skull implants today can be designed to cover any surface area of the skull that needs to be augmented. Utilizing the patient’s 3D CT scan, its design and size is only limited by the limitations imposed by the elasticity of the scalp. (how much can the scalp stretch to accommodate what lies underneath it) Typically Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants provide the most effective method for any form of skull augmentation. By creating a preformed implant with the shape and thicknesses one thinks can most effectively greater the desired augmentation effect, a smaller scalp incision is needed than if the augmentation had to be created by the traditional application of bone 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...