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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 sliding genioplasty is a well known chin reshaping procedure. Unlike its bigger brother, the sagittal split ramus osteotomy done back at the jaw angles, the sliding genioplasty does not affect the occlusion or any movement of the lower jaw. It is an isolated procedure done just on the chin bone at the anterior Read More…
Background: Chin ptosis occurs from a variety of reasons, most of which are iatrogenic…meaning it coms from prior chin surgery. The most common form of aesthetic chin surgery that leads to soft tissue pad ptosis is reversal of a prior augmentation. Whether this is the removal of an implant or the partial or total reversal Read More…
Background: While standard chin implants are effective for common projection deficiencies, they are not effective for more significant dimensional changes. One reason a chin implant can fail, therefore, is that was a poor selection based on the patient’s anatomic needs/aesthetic goals. In theory this outcome should be largely avoidable using preoperative imaging. But I have Read More…
Background: The well known sliding genioplasty can create multiple aesthetic dimensional changes of the chin. Most commonly horizontal advancements are done with or without some vertical height changes. While very effective at horizontal advancements it does result in an abnormal contour to the bone. (step-off) The larger the horizontal advancement the more significant this contour Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is commonly performed chin reshaping surgery. While often perceived as a horizontal advancement procedure (and the autologous option for chin augmentation), it is far more dimensionally versatile. It can also provide vertical elongation or shortening as well as width reduction, all dimensional changes that an implant can not do. But despite the Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty procedure provides proven dimensional increases in chin projection. It does so by changing the shape of the chin. While it is commonly perceived that the chin bone is cut and moved to a new desired location, the chin bone no longer has its completely natural shape. The most obvious change in Read More…
In every intraoral dissection of the chin, the mentalis muscle is encountered and transected to some degree. In most cases the surgeon’s goal is to leave the actual muscle attachment to the bone intact (its point of origin) so that it can serve as reattachment area during closure. While this reattachment of the muscle seems Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is a long established method of chin reshaping. While often perceived as being for horizontal augmentation only, it offers much more diverse dimensional chin changes. Vertical lengthening/shortening as well as width narrowing can also be done by internal wedge bone removal as well. When horizontal augmentation is done for the downfractured bone Read More…
The sliding genioplasty for chin augmentation is a multidimensional procedure. While it is commonly perceived as a horizontal chin movement, and this is what it was originally designed to do, it can create greater dimensional changes than just horizontal. It can just as easily create vertical chin lengthening (or less so vertical chin shortening) and Read More…
The sliding genioplasty procedure is an effective method of horizontal and/or vertical chin augmentation changes. In doing so the natural shape of the chin bone is changed from a smooth convex side profile to a much different sharply angled step configuration. While this shape change does to affect its ability to heal, even though there 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...