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Treatment of Keloid Scars with Botulinum Toxin Type A versus Triamcinolone in an Athymic Nude Mouse Model.
[BACKGROUND] Keloid scarring is a serious condition that mostly affects patients of African or Asian descent. Often disfiguring, this condition can have devastating psychosocial consequences. To date, no treatment modality has been proven i…
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Soft and Firm Alloplastic Implants in Rhinoplasty: Why, When and How to Use Them: A Review of 311 Cases.
[BACKGROUND] Modern rhinoplasty is not just a reduction procedure. An optimal nasal esthetic result occasionally requires augmenting the nasal tip, the dorsum or the lateral wall with autografts or alloplasts. A large number of nasal implan…
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Nipple reduction - An adjunct to augmentation mammaplasty.
Nipple hypertrophy is an occasional deformity in Asians and a rare one in Caucasians. Lately, it has been showing up more often in plastic surgeons' offices across North America and elsewhere, owing to the influx of Asian immigration worldw…
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Minimal inframammary incision for breast augmentation.
The inframammary approach in breast augmentation, still the most popular technique among plastic surgeons, has always been hampered by the undesirable appearance of its scar. The present paper describes a modified approach to inframammary a…
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'Optimum mobility' facelift. Part 1 - the theory.
Traditional rhytidectomy techniques, such as the cutaneous lift, the superficial musculoaponeurotic system lift, the deep plane lift and the subperiosteal lift, are mostly differentiated by their different planes of dissection. As well, man…
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'Optimum mobility' facelift. Part 2 - the technique.
In the first of this two-part article on the 'optimum mobility' facelift, facial tissue mobility was analyzed, and three theories or mechanisms emerged: 'intrinsic mobility', 'surgically induced mobility' and 'optimum mobility points'.In th…
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Absence of capsular contracture in 319 consecutive augmentation mammaplasties: Dependent drains as a possible factor.
Capsular contracture is one of the major complications of augmentation mammaplasty. A review of 638 augmented breasts in 319 consecutive patients who underwent primary augmentation, with an average follow-up of 17.2 months and without a sin…
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Estimating implant size in chin augmentation: A simplified approach.
A receding chin, colloquially known as a weak chin, is a significant aesthetic impediment to a pleasing face. Multiple techniques exist to evaluate the poorly projecting chin, but most are imprecise when it comes to choosing the proper impl…
- Correction of thin lips: a 17-year follow-up of the original technique.
- Aging lips. Esthetic analysis and correction.
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Correction of thin lips: "lip lift".
Thin, atrophied lips are a stigma of old age. This paper discusses the so-called lip lift, an operation that consists of lifting, everting, and increasing the bulk of the upper and lower lips by means of a simple but meticulous procedure al…
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Expression plasty: a new approach to esthetic surgery.
Training in esthetic surgery focuses on correcting crooked noses, wrinkled skin, bald scalps, and other unsightly facial structures. However, little importance is placed upon facial expressions--eg, "weak," "serious," "feminine," etc. Surge…
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Male and female face-lift incisions.
The factors and differences in incisions for face-lifting in women and men are presented and discussed in detail. The recommended approaches hide scars effectively, allow the hair growing in front of the ear to be left in its original locat…
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Blepharoplasty: when to combine it with brow, temple, or coronal lift.
Some patients coming for esthetic blepharoplasty should have one of three supplemental procedures performed to elevate or change the position of the eyebrows. The most precise eyebrow alterations are effected with brow lifting procedures, b…