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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 soft spots on a baby’s head are well known and are its most distinguishing features. These open areas between the developing skull bones , known as fontanelles, total six in number but the most visible are the anterior and posterior ones. The anterior fontanelle is the largest of the two and closes between Read More…
Background: The metopic suture runs down the midline on the frontal bone of the forehead. At its back end is the bregma where it intersects with the transverse coronal sutures. At its front end it intersects with the nasal bones. Its function in the neonate is to facilitate passage through the birth canal by allowing Read More…
The occipital knob is a common midline skull protrusion on the back of the head. It is normal to have one but when its size becomes larger it can cause an undesired prominence. While a large occipital knob is particularly visible in the male with a shaved head an equal number of men with hair Read More…
Background: Custom implants provide the most effective and significant method for aesthetic skull augmentation. By expanding the outer surface of the skull through placement of an onlay implant the overlying scalp is stretched and the head shape changed. While any shape and size of skull implant can be designed that doesn’t mean there is enough Read More…
Background: The back of the head has the greatest diversity of shape abnormalities, most commonly flat areas. The two most common types are asymmetric flattening due to plagiocephaly and bilateral flattening due to external deformational forces. There does not appear to be too much difference between them in occurrence based on patients that have presented Read More…
Background: Aside from asymmetries and congenital skull deformities there are gender differences in the types of aesthetic skull augmentations that are requested. In my experience the back of the head is the #1 request for men while the crown of the skull is most commonly sought in women. One could argue that the lack of Read More…
Background: In larger skull implant augmentations it is necessary to undergo a 1st stage scalp expansion. What defines a skull implant size that requires an initial scalp expansion depends on several factors, the most important of which is the scalp’s ability to stretch to accommodate the size of the implant underneath it. There is not Read More…
Background: The skull develops through numerous methods, one of which is ossification of certain bony eminences. (aka primary bone growth centers) One of these is the well known parietal eminence area which ultimately forms the large parietal bones of the skull. These quadrilateral-shaped skull bones located at the sides and posterior roof of the skull Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull is a collection of largely convex surfaces that interface with each other. Fundamentally there are five such convex skull surfaces (front, top, back and two sides) that collectively create the aesthetic shape of the skull. While the degree of convexity varies on each surface anything less than some convexity Read More…
Background: There are a variety of congenital head shape abnormalities that exist that are either commonly known or easily recognizable. While plagiocephaly is the most well known, scaphocephaly is the most recognizable…even if people do not know the actual name of the skull condition. Having a long front to back head length with a distinct 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...