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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...
Skull reshaping surgery is done to create a more normal skull shape and contours. It achieves this goal through the application to the outside of the skull of either augmentation (by adding materials), reducing bone or a combination of both techniques. Most skull reshaping techniques require an open incisional approach to be done. The following Read More…
Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the Read More…
Background: The appearance of the skull has a wide variety of shapes. But it most commonly has a front to back oblong shape that has curved round shape from the front that is deemed the most aesthetically pleasing. The shape from ear to ear across the top of the head should be a smooth Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull frequently has various lumps and bumps of bone that stick up from an otherwise smooth surface. Many such bony protuberances have no specific reason for being in their location and are aesthetic nuisances that merely represent the way the skull formed and are present at a very early Read More…
Cosmetic skull deformities encompass a wide variety of concerns from flatness, pointy or high spots, ridges, bulges and asymmetries. But one of the most common head shape concerns is the flat back of the head. This specifically refers to varying degrees of lack of occipital projection, usually occupying an area between the top of Read More…
Background: Loss of the frontal or forehead bone can occur for a variety of reasons, usually from depressed fractures or loss of a craniotomy flap from infection. With removal of the protective bone cover, the brain and its dural covering sit directly up against the skin not only creating an obvious depression but pulsating Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is largely determined by the skull that lies underneath it. Its normal oblong shape is created by the multiples plates of skull bone formed in utero that only formally fuse together after birth. The rapidly developing and expanding brain has great influence on forming the skull shape, much like Read More…
When one thinks of cosmetic surgery, the thought rarely goes to any form of skull contouring. While the world is full of a wide variety of head shapes, there is no uniform size or measurement to determine a pleasing cranial contour. But there is a certain oblong and curvilinear shape to most of the Read More…
One of the techniques for contouring of the skull is augmentative cranioplasty. This is where the skull or forehead is built out through the use of a variety of synthetic materials. While bone would seem to be a logical choice, it is associated with resorption when used as an onlay not to mention the need Read More…
Background:It is not uncommon for someone to have a small ‘lump or bump’ on their head. There are numerous things that it can be with the most common being a scalp cyst from the skin or hair follicles or a growth on the bony skull. Skull growths are usually benign bony tumors referred to as 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...