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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...
Significant vertical chin lengthening is most successfully achieved by lengthening of the bone. Downfracture of the chin bone with an interpositional graft can easily provide double digits of increased vertical chin length without soft tissue constraint concerns. Calculating how much increased chin lengthen a patient needs is not an exact science although there are several Read More…
Hip implants are unique amongst all aesthetic body implants. Their vertical orientation in a more superficial tissue pocket location is what separates it from other body implants. Any extremity (arm and leg) implant does also have a periodic vertical orientation but those implants are either in the subfascial or submuscular pockets which provide better implant Read More…
Surgical lip reshaping involve relocation of the vermilion border through either direct or indirect methods. The most recognized method is the well known subnasal lip lift (bullhorn lift) where the the amount of upper lip vermilion show is increased by removal of a strip of skin under the nose. This skin removal pulls the lip Read More…
Removal or modification of the lower ribcage is based on the premise that it provides structural support to the abdominal wall. This premise is anatomically supported by the numerous attachments of abdominal muscles to the free floating ribs. Ribs #s 11 and 12, also known as the vertebral ribs, have attachments to the anterolateral abdominal Read More…
Augmentation of the upper third of the face is ideally done with a custom forehead implant design. In creating these designs one of its considerations is whether the augmentation should stop at the bony temporal line or does it need to extend onto the temporal muscle area at the side of the forehead. As a Read More…
Undereye hollows are a common periorbital condition due to either aging, congenital development or both. They represent an anatomic deformity of which one major component is loss of volume. They are exacerbated when an infraorbital rim-cheek skeletal deficiency is also present. They are very much the antithesis of lower eyelid bags which are an excess Read More…
The sliding genioplasty gets its name from its origin well over a half century ago. At that time here was only one bone fixation technique to hold the bone into its new position…wire fixation. Passing wire ligatures from the buccal cortex superiorly and the lingual cortex of the mobilized chin bone segments inferiorly when twisted Read More…
Custom implants are a paradigm shift in aesthetic augmentations of the midface. While there are numerous off-the-shelf augmentation options such as cheek, tear trough, and pyriform aperture (premaxillary and paranasal) implants, their effects are limited or only a subtotal midface enhancement. While this is what the vast majority of patients seek there is a subset Read More…
One of the smallest areas of facial augmentation by bony surface area is the pyriform aperture region of the midface. The lower base of the nose is divided into two zones, paranasal and premaxillary. Both areas provide support to the base of the nose but with different effects. The paranasal region builds up the base Read More…
Custom facial implants are like all other facial procedures in terms of inducing postoperative swelling and bruising. This is typically a relatively short-lived aesthetic issue that has largely abated by one month after surgery. Bruising or ecchymoses always resolve before all swelling has subsided. As a result there usually is not much concern about early 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...