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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 the medical term used to describe a diagonal asymmetry of the head. It is meant to refer to a flatness on either the back or front of the head. But in reality there is always a contralateral flattening opposite the dominant flat part due to the way the skull develops. Hence plagiocephaly Read More…
A custom made implant is the best method to correct aesthetic contour deformities of the skull. It can be made in any shape and size provided there is enough scalp stretch to be able to close over it. Despite these implant benefits, unlike reconstructive skull surgeries, there is a much greater importance on limiting the Read More…
Background: Flattening of the back of the head is one of the common aesthetic skull deformities. Many of these are mild and are likely caused by how one slept as an infant. But others are more severe and are caused by a genetic tendency based on ethnicity or familial tendencies or even from lambdoidal synostosis. Read More…
The shape of the head is prone to a wide variety of deformational deformities. One of the most common areas for such aesthetic skull deformities to occur is on the back of the head. Lack of projection and asymmetries are the typical occipital problems that bother patients, most of which are men more than women. Read More…
Aesthetic augmentation of the skull is most effectively done using 3D imaging technology to create a custom skull implant. By both creating an exacting fit and the desired amount and shape of the skull augmentation beforehand, surgery becomes focused exclusively on the method of placement. The consideration of the location and length of the scalp Read More…
Custom skull implants have become a standard technique in my plastic surgery practice for making many aesthetic skull shape changes. Prior to their use, while skull reshaping surgery was possible, it involved the use of much longer scalp incisions and the use of intraoperatively fashioned biomaterials that had a much higher rate of contour issues Read More…
Skull implants are a versatile treatment strategy for a variety of head augmentation concerns. Made from the patient’s 3D CT scan they can be designed to provide increases in skull projection that are only limited by the stretch of one’s scalp. One of the not uncommon indications for custom skull implants is to increase the Read More…
Background: Deficiencies of the crown area of the head are unique to females. They often compensate for such skull height deficiencies through hair style camouflage techniques. Two definitive treatment is a custom skull implant made from a 3D CT scan. While not being able to add unlimited increases in skull height due to the limitations Read More…
The width of the head is determined by how wide it is above the ears. This is known as the temporal region and consists of a very uniquely shaped temporal bone and varying thicknesses of the temporals muscle over it. By the eye the temporal bone is very concave and the temporalis muscle is correspondingly Read More…
Background: Augmenting skull or head shape deficiencies used to be fairly impractical. The traditional method of cranioplasty surgery involved long scalp incisions and the tedious application of bone cements to add shape to the head. Besides the scar there was a very high rate of contour irregularities and a lack of adequate augmentation effect. This 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...