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Aesthetic surgery of the facial skeleton: the forehead. 1991

F Ortiz Monasterio

Postgraduate Division, Medical School, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, Mexico City.

The skeleton of the upper third of the face is seldom considered as an area for aesthetic improvement. The author reports his experience with alteration of the skeleton of the forehead by recontouring or augmenting for aesthetic purposes. Also the experience with subperiosteal face lifts performed through coronal incisions is reported.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004954	Esthetics	The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic experience, esthetic judgment, esthetic aspects of medicine, etc.	Aesthetics
D005546	Forehead	The part of the face above the eyes.	Foreheads
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013518	Surgery, Plastic	The branch of surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of defective, damaged, or missing structures.	Cosmetic Surgery,Esthetic Surgery,Plastic Surgery,Surgery, Cosmetic,Surgery, Esthetic,Reconstructive Surgery,Surgery, Reconstructive
D015361	Rhytidoplasty	Plastic surgery performed, usually by excision of skin, for the elimination of wrinkles from the skin.	Face Lift,Rhytidectomy,Facelift,Platysmaplasty,Platysmotomy,Face Lifts,Facelifts,Lift, Face,Lifts, Face,Platysmaplasties,Platysmotomies,Rhytidectomies,Rhytidoplasties
D016025	Bone Transplantation	The grafting of bone from a donor site to a recipient site.	Grafting, Bone,Transplantation, Bone,Bone Grafting
D019736	Prostheses and Implants	Artificial substitutes for body parts, and materials inserted into tissue for functional, cosmetic, or therapeutic purposes. Prostheses can be functional, as in the case of artificial arms and legs, or cosmetic, as in the case of an artificial eye. Implants, all surgically inserted or grafted into the body, tend to be used therapeutically. IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL is available for those used experimentally.	Implants, Artificial,Prostheses and Implant,Prosthesis,Prosthetic Implant,Endoprostheses,Endoprosthesis,Prostheses,Prosthetic Implants,Artificial Implant,Artificial Implants,Implant and Prostheses,Implant, Artificial,Implant, Prosthetic,Implants and Prostheses,Implants, Prosthetic