Takehiro Shirakabe's scientific contributions

Publications (7)

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The principles of deformation have come to our attention through the study of technical skills in art. It creates emphasis on the motif of a work by transformation and results in the illusionary phenomenon that makes the total appearance more harmonious and impressive. With this artistic technical concept compounded with our surgical experiences, w...
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Of the many aspects of aesthetic surgery, the double-eyelid operation generates the most interest for Japanese surgeons, as there has been an enormous demand for it by patients who are fashion-conscious. It has been possible to locate 32 operative procedures that have been published in the Japanese literature over the past ninety years. Some of the...
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Of the many aspects of aesthetic surgery, the double-eyelid operation generates the most interest for Japanese surgeons, as there has been an enormous demand for it by patients who are fashion-conscious. It has been possible to locate 32 operative procedures that have been published in the Japanese literature over the past ninety years. Some of the...
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The authors classify the complications resulting from augmentation rhinoplasty into 6 types according to the nasal areas involved, then guide the reader to the corresponding technique of management for each type. Their classification is based on the data of 113 patients whom they treated with a secondary rhinoplasty in their clinic during the past...
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Knowing the fact that the differences in expressions come to characterize the personality of each person, the aesthetic surgeons conduct various kinds of surgery to draw out the personality of our patients. We need to reconsider what expression is from an anatomical viewpoint. Good examples are found among the faces in paintings and sculptures crea...
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Study of the elasticity of the skin of the nose, the direction of muscle movement and the mobility of the nasal cartilages shows clearly that the human nose is not simply a lump of flesh consisting of bone, cartilage, muscle and skin, but a subtle aesthetic combination of anatomical form and physiological function. A new basal prosthesis has been i...

Citations

... The history of both approaches is well covered in these references. [1][2][3][4][5] The author published a paper 6 in 2020 pertaining to scoring of abnormal crease height and crease depth findings in revisional cases. Of the two parameters of crease height and depth, Chen 5,6 discussed the importance of accurate placement of crease height in primary cases, while there has not been any substantial paper alluding to the depth level of a crease in any detail beyond Fernandez's 2 original paper in 1960. ...
... The incidence of complications after augmentation rhinoplasty with silicone implants varies between 4% and 36%. 4,5,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The most common complication was contracture, seen in 34.8% of patients; deviation (implant shift), 30.1%; Fig. 3. ...
... [1][2][3][4] Esthetic double-eyelid surgery has been popular. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] So far, a wide spectrum of esthetic double-eyelid surgeries (including non-incision and incisional techniques) have been practiced. During natural double-eyelid formation, extended insertion of levator palpebrae superioris fascia fibers into the pretarsal orbicularis oculi muscle and dermis contributes to the formation of a double-eyelid. ...
... The incidence of complications after augmentation rhinoplasty with silicone implants varies between 4% and 36%. 4,5,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The most common complication was contracture, seen in 34.8% of patients; deviation (implant shift), 30.1%; Fig. 3. ...