title: Surgical procedures on the facial skeleton for purely aesthetic aims.
abstract: While the emphasis in many aesthetic plastic surgery reports is on soft tissue revisions, facial skeletal adjustments play an important role in obtaining optimal results in many procedures. A number of such instances are briefly described and representative cases are shown.
mesh_terms: D004954:Esthetics; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*