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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...
Wide shoulders in a female can be an unaesthetic body feature which can be successfully reduced by clavicle osteotomies. By removing a segment of the largely horizontally oriented clavicle bone the width of the shoulders is visibly reduced. Some debate can be had about how much clavicle bone an be safely removed in this operation. Read More…
The use of tissue expansion is a time honored technique in plastic surgery for scalp reconstruction. With loss of hair-bearing scalp due to trauma or oncologic resection stretching out the surrounding scalp to provide coverage for what was lost is one of the original uses of the tissue expansion concept. Its works particularly well in Read More…
The orbital floor and surgical efforts to change its shape/position are typically associated with fracture management. The thin nature of the bony thickness of the orbital floor and its support of the overlying eyeball may it prone to being pushed downward into the maxillary sinus with direct trauma to the eyeball or cheekbone. Its reconstruction Read More…
The long upper lip can only be treated by shortening the skin distance between the base of the nose and the vermilion-skin border. The subnasal lip lift is the most known and commonly performed of all the surgical lip enhancement procedures to achieve this effect. Its appeal is that it places the incision under the Read More…
Buttock implants are ultrasoft solid silicone hemispherical devices. They have a role in buttock augmentation when the patient has insufficient fat for a BBL procedure or an inadequate BBL result to meet their aesthetic needs. They can be placed either inside the gluteus maximus muscle or on top of it. They are advantages with either Read More…
Rib cartilage provides a plentiful source of graft material for any rhinoplasty need. While its benefit is the volume it provides, its disadvantage is in its shape. Rib cartilage has variable thicknesses, is round in shape and is rarely straight. Carving it into the form needed for dorsal augmentation is always required and with that Read More…
The use of cartilage grafts is an essential need in many primary and revisional rhinoplasty surgeries. Most such grafts come from either direct anatomic proximity (septum) or from a regional source. (ear) But when these sites are inadequate due to lack of graft material or the volume of material exceeds their capacity, the more distant Read More…
Rhinoplasty frequently uses cartilage grafts to aid in the reshaping of the nose. They are used to either create a shape in the nose that did not exist before to providing support of native cartilage structures that have been altered. Most commonly septal cartilage is harvested and used, not only because of anatomic proximity, but Read More…
Shoulder reduction by removing a segment of the clavicle bone is an effective procedure for decreasing the bideltoid width. A 2.5 to 3cm segment of bone is removed from the inner third of each clavicle which is both the location of the thickest diameter of the bone as well as the most favorable location for Read More…
The custom infraorbital-malar implant is the most effective approach to treating undereye hollows and in creating a specific cheek augmentation look. (high cheekbone look) It provides a linear line of bone augmentation from the nose to the end of the zygomatic arch. In placing such an implant through a lower eyelid incision the pocket dissection 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...