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Cleft lip and palate implies an often 20+ years rehabilitation process for the affected individual starting a few days after birth. The reward of this multistage, interdisciplinary process can be

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It has been said that it is the secret dream of any surgeon to leave this world with his or her name attached to at least one instrument. This is

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scar revision facial plastic surgery by board certified plastic surgeon, specialist in scar revision plastic surgery for patients from Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Miami, New York, Toronto, London …

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Migraine headaches are common in young women and can be extraordinarily incapacitating requiring longterm treatment with medications. Similar to the account of the discovery of a cure we observe migraine

Continue readingA Cure for Migraine Headaches: Botox, Nerve Decompression, Brow Lifting and Septoplasty

Botulinum Toxin A (BTA), also known as Botox, is a very potent neurotoxin. In migraine headaches treatment it is used to selectively weaken certain muscles in the face and neck,

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The correlation between structure and appearance is most straightforward when the skeleton is involved. Today’s case involved a young women after a motor vehicle accident more than a  decade ago.

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Numerous craniofacial deformities are characterized by orbital dystopia and anterior skull base deformities. Examples are Crouzon’s syndrome, Apert’s syndrome, coronal and metopic craniosynostosis. Two concepts developed by Paul Tessier (the

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The techniques of skeletal surgery of the midface were originally developed to treat problems related to congenital and posttraumatic deformities affecting the occlusion. Occlusion – the way the upper and

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Craniofacial surgery in its purest form is plastic surgery of the skeleton of the face and skull. It was developed into a subspecialty of plastic surgery based on several principles

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