Surgical procedures on the facial skeleton for purely aesthetic aims.
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.
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*