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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 have proven to be the superior method for any form of aesthetic skull augmentation. Being able to preoperatively design an implant based on the patient’s 3D CT scan providesthe best chance to achieve a smooth and an effective augmentation result. The preformed implant also allows the smallest possible scalp incision and scar Read More…
Tear troughs and undereye hollows are some of the most common periorbital aesthetic deformities. While they are located in the lower eyelid region they are not necessarily the same. Tear trough are typically described as discrete indentations located more at the medial orbital rim area and are the result of aging or tissue thinning creating Read More…
Temporal hollowing is a common sequelae of aging particularly in the thin female. While the actual temporal muscle does not shrink significantly with aging, the temporal fat pads do. Thin females do not have sizable temporal fat pads initially and whatever is there may largely shrink with age. The most common treatment for temporal hollowing Read More…
While the chin can have a wide variety of different dimensional appearances, it has only a few potential topographic features. The labiomental fold is the superior horizontal indentation that may be present and the lower soft tissue chin pad can have indentations of various shapes from circular (dimples) to vertical. (clefts) It is common misconception Read More…
Otoplasty for protruding ears is the most commonly performed aesthetic procedure of the external ear. Its technical execution has been described by a large number of cartilage manipulation techniques to make the ear less prominent. What is shared by every technique is that the goal is to bent the ear framework into a modified shape Read More…
Temporal implants offer a permanent method for volume augmentation for a hollowed contour by the side of the eye. Such implants are often sought after either acceptable results from injectable fillers but a permanent result is desired or due to unsatisfactory results from fat injections. The success of temporal implants is based on their subfascial Read More…
The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin augmentation procedure that cuts and relocates the symphyseal bone. No matter how it is cut or what position to which it is moved it requires a bone fixation method to hold it there to heal. While multiple bone fixation methods for the chin exist the most versatile Read More…
Masseteric muscle dehiscence is a well known adverse aesthetic risk of jaw angle or jawline implants. While it has no adverse functional effects on lower jaw opening or closure, it creates a contour defect over the jaw angle area. It can occur in variable amounts from a small amount of jaw angle skeletonization to a Read More…
Shoulder width reduction is effectively done by shortening the length of the clavicle. As the only horizontally oriented bone in the body its length largely establishes the distance between the sternum and the shoulder. By removing 2 to 3cm segment of the inner third of the clavicle the shoulder moves inward as the bone is Read More…
There are many features to the eyes which create either a positive (youthful) or negative (aging) appearance. Some are present naturally while others develop from the effects of time and movement. While the upper eyelid has the important topographic features of a well defined lid crease and supra tarsal fold, the lower eyelid has less 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...