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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...
Chin augmentation, whether by an implant or a sliding genioplasty, is one of the most commonly performed facial reshaping procedures. While it has many benefits it has one potential aesthetic liability…deepening of the labiomental fold. It is not a question of whether this will occur after chin augmentation but whether it will be significant or Read More…
Background: While chin augmentation is a commonly performed facial reshaping procedure, there are some basic concepts about it that can be overlooked. First, there are gender differences between what the ideal chin position may be. Too often this is overlooked in women who are far more likely to end up over corrected than under corrected. Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin reshaping procedure that has its origins in the weak chin were advancement of the bone was needed. In this more straightforward application wire ligatures were originally used to hold the cut bone into its new position. Such wire ligature fixation was replaced with more rigid forms using Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a well known autologous chin augmentation procedure. Determining how much to move the mobilized chin bone forward requires some preoperative planning using computer imaging and linear facial measurements. But despite these preoperative planning efforts it is not an exact science. No one can precisely predict how the patient will interpret Read More…
The chin can be reshaped in a variety of well known bony maneuvers. The most common is projection increase via the classic sliding genioplasty using a horizontally angulated bony cut. The other now recognized bony chin reshaping is that of the mini V line surgery. This is a reductive procedure to reduce the width of Read More…
Background: Genioplasty is a generic term that refers to any manipulation of the chin. It does not specify exactly what that manipulation is but has become most synonymous today with the bone-based chin surgery known as a sliding genioplasty. While this is an operation that most frequently creates a horizontal chin augmentation effect it is Read More…
Vertical lengthening of the chin is an interesting procedure that entails different considerations than traditional horizontal chin augmentation. It differs because the techniques to elongate the chin are not well known or used as the diagnosis of vertical chin deficiency is frequently overlooked. From a traditional standpoint vertical chin lengthening was perceived as only being Read More…
Background: When a chin implant fails to provide satisfactory horizontal projection, the initial question is always why. Most of the time the surgeon has inadequately estimated the patient’s aesthetic needs or chosen an implant size they thought looked adequate. More times than not there has been no preoperative imaging prediction work done to determine what Read More…
Background: The use of an implant to correct a small chin is one of the most common facial reshaping procedures. Conceptually it is a very straightforward procedure but consistently getting good aesthetic results is dependent on numerous variables such as implant style and size, its position on the bone and ultimately the patient’s response to Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty procedure is done by a low angled bone cut above and through the inferior border of the chin . (anterior jawline) While there can be some asymmetry of the lengths of the bone cuts as they go to the sides inside the narrow subperiosteal tunnel, the bone is still downfractured 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...