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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: Skull implants are used today to treat a variety of aesthetic head shape concerns and deformities. While many think of skull implants of filling in craniotomy or other traumatic skull defects, aesthetic skull implants are placed in a subperiosteal onlay fashion to build out usually normal thickness skull bone areas. Skull implants placed in Read More…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done for a wide variety of deficient skull shape concerns. Changes can be made in skull height, skull width and frontal and posterior skull projection. In rare cases and with the use of a first stage scalp tissue expander, the entire skull can be augmented through a circumferential Read More…
Background: Occipital plagiocephaly is a well recognized skull shape deformity that is caused by deformational forces. Whether this is the result of intrauterine constraint, post delivery head positioning or both, the thin and malleable skull bones are prone to be inadvertently molded into a deformed shape. This classically appears as a flatness on one side Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull can be almost as variable as each individual in many ways. But the one similar characteristic is that most skulls do have a smooth surface from the forehead to the back across the top. This is seen in many plain skull model examples where a smooth surface is usually Read More…
While the skull is often envisioned as a perfectly smooth oval shape, it often isn’t. Due to how the cranial sutures fuse and intervening bones form, the surface of the skull is often irregular. Such irregularities often occur along the suture lines due to their early activity during development and closure right after birth. They Read More…
The use of 3D CT scanning and sophisticated imaging manipulation software has now made it possible to design specific implants for the face and skull for aesthetic augmentation/contouring and reconstructive purposes. This helps fill a growing need for patients who aesthetic and reconstructive requirements exceed what standard off-the-shelf implants can provide. The creation of these Read More…
Aesthetic cranioplasty often involves the coverage of large skull areas with alloplastic material. Whether it be PMMA or hydroxyapatite cements or with today’s custom 3D generated silicone implants, a fairly large amount of material can serve as a solid interface between the overlying scalp and the underlying cranial bone. As the scalp has an excellent Read More…
Unlike facial implants, the use of skull implants for aesthetic head reshaping has a very short history. While the use of facial implants dates back more than five decades in plastic surgery, skull implants have been done for just a few years. It has not been that skull implants are radically different or more complex Read More…
Background: The most common aesthetic skull deformity is that of the flat back of the head. This occurs most commonly from in utero or postnatal infant positioning and also has a strong genetic tendency amongst certain ethnic groups. (e.g., Asian) While a flat back of the head has no detrimental intracranial or neurologic effects, it Read More…
Background: Excessive flatness of the back of the head can affect women and men equally. While shorter hairstyles reveal the shape of the back of the head most clearly, women with longer hair can be similarly affected and use various hairstyling methods to camouflage it. There are various materials by which the back of 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...