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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: 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…
Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done by a variety of materials which can be divided into rigid and semi-rigid physical properties. Silicone is the most commonly used of the materials as its semi-rigid forms allows for introduction through smaller incisions, can be designed in almost any shape and thickness and has feathered edges. These Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to variety of aesthetic shape deformations, some of them flattening and others of a protrusive nature. For the protrusions there are some well known occipital bone-based ones including knobs and buns. These are circular enlargements that have a midline origin to them. They are essentially enlargements of Read More…
Custom implants are the most effective strategy for achieving any significant skull augmentation effects. One of their most common uses is for improving the shape of the flat or asymmetric back of the head due to plagiocephaly or brachycephaly. Such custom skull implants are done in both males and females in equal proportions. While the Read More…
Background: Of the five surfaces of the skull the most prone to irregularities and asymmetries is the back of the head. While often referred to as the occiput or occipital skull bone, anatomically it is more complex than one single bone surface. The back of the head is composed of the intersection of three bones, Read More…
Background: The most recognizable skull deformity on the back of the head is the occipital knob or the overgrown inion which is seen most commonly in men. It appears as a solitary midline projection sticking out of the lower end of the occipital bone. It presents in variable sizes from a small bump to a Read More…
Background: The occipital bone is a large skull bone of which most is not seen as it lies below the neck muscles and wraps inferiorly around the spine. The part that is seen is the upper portion of the occipital bone which is prone to various protrusions such as knobs and buns. But in 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...