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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 fabrication of custom skull implants offers a major advance in the treatment of many aesthetic skull deformities. Historically skull augmentation had to be done using a long and complete coronal scalp incision and resultant scar for access and intraoperatively shaped bone cement materials. But today’s custom skull implants allow for the shaping of Read More…
Background: The skull is formed by six separate cranial bones which are initially joined by fibrous tissue known as sutures. The union of these sutures is most commonly recognized by the two large open areas between them that remain after birth, the fontanelles or soft spots. The fontanelles allow for rapid stretching and deformation of Read More…
Background: The skull is partially created and composed of numerous sutures. During development the skull is composed of six separate cranial bones which are held together by sutures which are made up of fibrous and elastic tissue. These sutures keep the skull bones separate for up to 18 months after birth to allow for brain Read More…
Background: While the skull is often perceived as just a large round homogenous surface, it is actually made up of various regions or aesthetic units. These units arise from the various plates and suture lines from which the skull is embryologically and developmentally formed. Each of these skull areas can be prone to surface contour Read More…
Background: Flat spots on the back of the head or one-sided occipital flatness is not rare. While the back of the head is typically round, it is prone to numerous indentations and irregularities from in utero and neonatal influences. Since the back of the head is exposed to greater eternal pressures than the rest of Read More…
Background: The shape of the head has many aesthetic components to it not unlike that of the face. While no area of the head as the degree of aesthetic complexity that the face does, that does not mean that cosmetic concerns about specific areas of the head do not exist. They are less well known Read More…
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…
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...