
Temporomandibular joint surgery descriced: TMJ
Temporomandibular joint surgery is done when there is severe clicking or inability to chew properly. This operation is kind of done with a prosthesis, an artificial hinge in a sense, and it is fraught with complications, and I would strongly advise anybody not to do the procedure unless they are...

What should a patient expect after jaw reconstruction?
Hopefully most of the time you will meet the patient’s expectation of having a face that is more harmonious, where the parts of the face fit together in a more pleasant and aesthetic way.

Overbite jaw surgery post-operative care
When there is a maxillofacial surgery with wiring or bone grafts, usually or often the teeth have to be wired together so they can’t move, and this is not only unpleasant and uncomfortable, but interferes, obviously, with chewing. So for probably six weeks, everything goes into a blender and is...

Dumbbells exercise to be performed at home for shoulders: power partials workout video
This exercise is great for your shoulders. To perform this exercise you will need two dumbbells. Stand upright with your feet on the floor and shoulder width apart. Keep your arms at your sides. In each hand hold a dumbbell with palms facing toward your body. Your arms should be...

Shoulders and traps workout with weights: dumbbell raise
This exercise is great for your shoulders and your traps. To perform this exercise you will need dumbbells. Stand and grasp the dumbbells with your arms to the side, palms facing sides of thighs. Your feet are flat on the floor, shoulder width apart. Pull dumbbells to sides of ribs...

Typical jaw augmentation consultation with jaw cosmetic surgery patients
Well, a jaw augmentation consultation involves first of all, as with any consultation, asking the patient first of all what they want. What do they want to achieve? Once the patient tells you, and you feel the patient is appropriate for this procedure, you then describe the operations I did...

Cosmetic jaw augmentation surgery: a candidate for jaw cosmetic surgery
A good candidate for reconstructive jaw surgery is someone who has a medical deformity and it will benefit from implants of various types. The other much more complicated problem is when someone has sever overbite or underbite and the actual jaw or bone, or the maxilla, the upper jaw, has...

Facial reconstructive surgery and facial implants
Well, there are other types of implants that can be used. The only common implant is the cheek implant. The check implants have very strange complications. Cheek implants can get infected. They certainly can be misplaced, but on rare occasions, somebody’s who’s had cheek implants comes back five years later...

Triceps and upper body workout with weights on an exercise ball
This exercise is great for triceps and upper body. To perform it you will only need a fitness ball and two dumbbells.Lie supine with shoulder blades firmly planted on the ball. Feet are shoulder width apart and legs are forming 90 degree angle in knees. Your body forms a straight...

Chin augmentation risks: chin implant complications
Could you please describe possible chin implant complications?The chin implant complications are, of course, infection and the other one is misplacement. I had a patient here yesterday who, some doctor had put a chin implant in and she had three revision surgeries, and it still wasn’t right. So, again, it’s...