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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...
Custom skull implants can make for some remarkable changes in the shape of the head. Besides being able to make a head augmentation change that is otherwise not possible by any other means one of the advantages of a custom implant design is to create a shape that blends into the surrounding skull in a Read More…
Background: The skull is composed of a number of plates of bone which are joined by sutures. These sutures allow the skull to grow with the underlying developing brain. Once brain growth is complete these sutures became stiffer and more fibrotic and even partially calcified. In adults the major suture lines are still seen of Read More…
Background: The term ‘lopsided’ refers to a paired entity in which one side is lower or smaller than the other. In medical terms ‘asymmetry’ is more commonly used. But either description applies to various forms of head shape abnormalities in which there is a discrepancy between the shape of its two sides. Plagiocephaly is the Read More…
Background: The shape of the skull consist of five surfaces, three of which have a distinctly convex bone shape. (front, back and top of the head) Symmetry of the head is highly depend on both sides of these convex surfaces being equal in shape. When one side is flatter than the other side a lop Read More…
Background: Enlargement of the skull or head shape is most commonly done for select areas using a custom skull implant made from the patient’s 3D CT scan. Such subtotal skull augmentations can usually be done with immediate insertion due to the natural stretch of the scalp. But in larger custom skull implants, whether it is Read More…
There are numerous small bumps on the skull that can occur that can be aesthetically bothersome. Some common examples are osteomas of the forehead and occipital knobs on the back of the head. Many of these skull bumps are pathologic, meaning their presence is abnormal even if they only cause an aesthetic issue. There are Read More…
Background: The back of the head is prone to having several types of aesthetically unfavorable bony projections. These come from the occipital bone which makes up all of the lower back of the head. Its primary function is to protect the brain from trauma and provides a broad surface for the muscle attachments of the Read More…
Background: The effects of deformational plagiocephaly are most significantly seen on the back of the head. This is not surprising as most of the potential deformation comes from either how the fetus is positioned in utero or how the baby lies after birth. While not conclusively proven, although a biologically sound theory, is that the Read More…
Background: Plagiocephaly is the most recognized deformational skull shape deformity in both children and adults. While it affects the entire skull to some degree the back of the head is usually the most affected, often initiated in utero or shortly after birth. While many assume that the flat back of the head is an irrelevant Read More…
Background: Treatment of the overly wide or convex head shape requires a temporal reduction procedure. The side of the head is known as the temporal region which has a large muscle component external to the thinner temporal bone underneath. It iswell known in temporal craniotomies for brain tumors and aneurysms that loss of temporal muscle 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...