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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 back of the head is unique in many ways but is the only skull surface that can have bone and scalp aesthetic deformities. The back of the head can have bony protrusions such as occipital knobs and buns as well as a wide variety of bony flattening and asymmetry shapes. Excess scalp can Read More…
Background: Skull reshaping is a general term that applies to a variety of surgical techniques designed to alter the shape of the head into a more pleasing shape as desired by the patient. Fundamentally these techniques come down to augmentation by custom designed skull implants and reduction by outer table skull bone removal. While often Read More…
Custom skull implants are the definitive method of any type of significant aesthetic skull augmentation. With a design based on the patient’s 3D CT scan implants can be designed to achieve almost type of head augmentation a patient desires. (provided the implant volume does not exceed the scalp’s ability to stretch to safely accommodate it) Read More…
Background: The occipital bone on the back of the head has a trapezoidal shape that forms the lower and back part of the cranium. It is not a snoot bone and has various ridges and prominences due to the attachment of numerous neck muscles. But there is one often seen and well described bump on Read More…
Background: Bony prominences of the skull can occur anywhere on its five surfaces in wide variety of shapes and sizes. But there are some consistent types of bony protrusions seen on each skull surface. These include sagittal crests on the top of the head, occipital buns and knobs on the back of the head, bossing Read More…
Background: The most successful forms of significant aesthetic skull augmentation involves the placement of a custom designed implant directly on the skull bone under all layers of the scalp. The most commonly used custom skull implant is made of solid silicone for both ease of placement through a much smaller scalp incision and lower manufacturing Read More…
Background: Augmentation of an undesired head shape is an aesthetic implant procedure done today that can be as successfully performed as any other face or body procedure. Because it is performed infrequently and by so few surgeons familiarity with the procedure is fraught with numerous misconceptions.These include a failure to understand why anyone would care Read More…
Background: The size and shape of the head can be augmented for aesthetic purposes like any other part of the face or body. Historically and often still done today this is done by various types of bone cements. While bone cements are very biocompatible their working properties make them effective for only small skull augmentations. Read More…
Background: All bony areas of the craniofacial skeleton can be both augmented and reduced. As a general rule the amount of augmentation capability is greater than the ability to reduce it as greater amounts of implant thicknesses can be added than the thickness of the bone that can be removed. This is equally true for Read More…
Background: The size and shape of the head is influenced by a variety of congenital and developmental influences on its bony framework. It is a unique bony structure of the body because it fundamentally acts as a large hollow encasement. Provided there is enough space for adequate brain development the specific dimensions and shape of 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...