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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: Aesthetic body implants, excluding breast implants, strive to achieve muscular enhancements. The most common body implants are placed in the chest (for men), buttocks and calfs and because of their level of patient requests exist in standard shapes and sizes. Other muscles of the body can be augmented but with less frequent requests are Read More…
Thigh implants are an uncommon type of body implant in that its frequency of use has been historically very limited. Much of this is due to low patient demand which is also a reflection of a lack of patient awareness. This is evident by the fact that there are no standard off-the-shelf thigh implants. (although Read More…
The anterior thigh muscles can be aesthetically augmented based on subfascial placement of an implant along the rectus femoris and vastus lateralis quad muscles. This raises the question of whether the posterior thigh can also be augmented although I am not aware of it yet being done. Thus this requires a look at the anatomy Read More…
The upper leg is not typically though of as capable of having any form of augmentation for an improved shape or muscular appearance. But the long longitudinal quad muscles do present an opportunity for subfascial implant placement. This is particularly relevant to the rectus femoris and vastus lateralis muscle groups which represent the largest of Read More…
Background: Aesthetic leg augmentations most commonly are done in the lower half of the leg for the calf muscles. The medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscles have a longitudinal orientation with an enveloping fascia. Because the muscle needs to slide within this enveloping fascial sheath for extension and flexion, a subfascial pocket can be created into Read More…
Background: Augmentation of the legs is traditionally done by calf implants. They are the only FDA-approved standard leg implants that have existed…and will likely ever be. But that does not mean that other leg muscles can not be augmented but they have to be done on an individual custom designed basis. The lessons learned from Read More…
While the calf implant is the most recognized lower extremity muscle augmentation implant, it is not the only one. Often overlooked are implants for the upper lower leg, specifically quad implants for rectus femoris and vastus lateralis and medialis muscles. While far less performed than calf implants that is undoubtably due to the lack of Read More…
Thigh implants are another type of extremity muscle augmentation that can be done. Using the longest and widest muscle of the anterior thigh, the biceps femoris, the implant is placed in a subfascial location through a small curved incision at its upper end. My top ten recovery instructions are as follows. 1. Thigh implants are Read More…
The extremities are capable of undergoing aesthetic muscle augmentation using implants of which the most commonly done historically is that of calf implants. Today other extremity augmentations are also done in the upper arm for biceps and tricep implants. What all of these extremity implantation sites share is that of a muscle which glides inside Read More…
Thigh implants offer aesthetic augmentation of the upper leg through subfascial implant placement of the biceps femoris muscle. This is the single largest muscle of the anterior thigh and thus creates the best opportunity for increased thigh size and definition by alloplastic insertion. Like all implants it requires a method of pocket dissection that is 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...