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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 flat back of head is a result of inadequate projection of the occipital-parietal bones. The lower half of the visible back of the head is the location of the upper half of the occipital bone. (the lower half of the occipital bone is below the thick neck muscles) The upper half of the Read More…
Background: The aesthetically wide head is typically seen as a pronounced convexity in the temporal regions of the skull. While much of the skull is compromised of bone under the scalp, the temporal regions which make up the sides of the head are unique in that regard. While there is temporal bone a significant part Read More…
The skull can be thought of simplistically as the connection of 5 convex surfaces (front, top, back and two sides) into an oblong curved shape. (normocephaly) Each of the five surfaces has varying degrees of convexity but none of its surfaces are flat. The back of the head has a fair amount of convexity and Read More…
Skull surgery of any form is associated with the necessity of the need for an overlying scalp incision. Of course the length of that scalp incision depends on what is being done to the skull. A component of the scalp incision is what to do with the hair, provided the patient has some or a Read More…
Background: The head, and more specifically, the skull can be reduced like almost any other face or body part. The desire for skull reductions comes in different magnitudes of size. Some enlargements are small, such as osteomas, bumps and horns, and can usually be completely removed as the problem is relegated to the outer cortical Read More…
Background: The skull and head size can be aesthetically increased like almost every other external face and body feature. While fat injections have some role in fat and body augmentations their use in skull augmentations is very limited. And when it comes to skull augmentations of any significant size they are of no value at Read More…
Background: The skull is composed of five surfaces that together make up the total shape of the head. Three of them are pure bony in composition and are sagittal in orientation, the front (forehead), top of the head, and back of the head. The paired sides of the head make up the other two and Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to the greatest frequency of aesthetic shape deformations. This is no surprise given that the back of the head is exposed to the greatest amount of external forces from how the fetus lays in utero to how the baby lays after birth and beyond. When this is Read More…
The use of a scalp tissue expander is a critical first step in the large skull implant augmentation patient. Since the scalp is a tightly adherent soft tissue envelope that surrounds all five sides of the skull it has a limited ability to stretch to accommodate an expanded cranial contour using an implant underneath it. Read More…
Background: The greatest aesthetic head shape deficiency in females is on its posterior surface or the back of the head. While commonly referred to as the occiput this is anatomically inaccurate. The back of the head is composed of multiple skull bones of which the singular occipital bone makes up only the lower half. The 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...