Chin augmentation is now the fastest growing trend in plastic surgery. A look at the reasons behind its popularity and why many agree the procedure is part art, part science.
SM12: Nasal Reconstruction after Cancer Treatment Includes Variety of Options
The right way to restore a patient’s nose after cancer depends on subtle factors: The shape, the depth, and the precise location of the wound all dictate how to go about the reconstruction, according to experts at the Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting.
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Managing Expectations: Facial plastic surgeons emphasize the limits of injectable fillers
With the availability of noninvasive procedures that use injectable fillers to do the work surgery once monopolized, more people than ever before are seeking the elixir of youth that comes now at the end of a needle rather than a knife.
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The Voice Lift: Should vocal fold surgery be considered a cosmetic procedure?
People get face-lifts and other types of cosmetic surgery to look better. They exercise so that they’ll feel better. But few people consider a voice lift, which combines surgery and exercise to make them sound better.
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Unintended Consequences: Combat-related injuries lead to advances in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery
Ever since the first fully equipped otolaryngology team was sent to the Air Force Theater Hospital (AFTH) in Balad, Iraq in 2004, an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon has become a permanent member of any deployed multispecialty head and neck team, working alongside a neurosurgeon, ophthalmologist and oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
End-to-End Blood Vessel Coupler Also Safe, Effective in End-to-Side Use
The use of an end-to-side coupling device for anastomosis appears to successfully work in challenging cases involving head and neck reconstruction following resection of cancer, researchers reported here at the 111th annual meeting of the Triological Society.
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Wound Management Following Facial Plastic Surgery
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: New Patients, New Reasons, New Techniques
The Importance of Rhinoplasty in Our Specialty
As otolaryngologists and facial plastic surgeons, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to perform many challenging operations of the head and neck.
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Endoscopic Brow Lift: Safer, Easier, and Better for Patients
What patient wouldn’t want three or four very small incisions that heal rapidly with little or no scarring and no residual numbness, compared with a foot-long slice at or under the hairline that takes longer to heal and sometimes leaves a puffed-up scar and/or permanent loss of sensation?
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