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[BACKGROUND] The increasing demand for rhinoplasty revisions highlights the need for effective secondary correction. Non-surgical rhinoplasty (NSR) with dermal fillers has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative to traditional surgical …

[INTRODUCTION] This study elucidates the application of Medium Definition Liposuction Abdominoplasty, a novel technique for achieving well-defined abdominal contours. The technique focuses on revealing the patient's inherent muscular volume…

[BACKGROUND] Autologous fat transfer (AFT) is gaining popularity in breast surgery, offering a natural-looking and minimally invasive approach for augmentation, reconstruction, and contouring. However, concerns about its impact on breast ca…

[BACKGROUND] Explantation of breast implant surgery (EBIS) is an emerging surgical field. Precise information about patients undergoing EBIS is important for preoperative planning of breast, augmentation, complications management, and to ad…

[BACKGROUND] Enhanced understanding of early postoperative adverse events will improve patient counseling and preoperative risk modification to decrease complications in implant-based breast augmentation. This study seeks to evaluate the ea…

The Plastic Surgeries Registry Network supported by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the Plastic Surgery Foundation offers a variety of options for procedural data and outcomes assessment and research. The Tracking Operat…

[BACKGROUND] Simultaneous augmentation-mastopexy is a particularly tricky operation with a considerable reoperation rate. The pectoralis muscle sling has proven to be a suitable alternative technique for long-term results in breast parenchy…

[IMPORTANCE] Within cosmetic facial plastic surgery, there is considerable difficulty in producing high-quality scientific publications because of the lack of scientific tools that serve to transform sensations, such as more beautiful or re…

[BACKGROUND] It has been speculated that the immediate decrease in body fat following liposuction may affect body composition by feedback mechanisms of body fat regain. Physical activity has both short- and long-term impacts on health. Alth…

[IMPORTANCE] Postoperative edema and ecchymosis following rhinoplasty are a cause of anxiety for both patients and physicians and can affect the cosmetic results. Corticosteroids have been used to reduce these events. [OBJECTIVE] To determ…

[BACKGROUND] The significant increase in the popularity of breast augmentation surgeries has led to an increase in the number and types of complications; among these is the postoperative occurrence of Striae Distensae (SD). The objective of…

[BACKGROUND] Preincisional analgesia is an antinociceptive treatment that prevents altered central excitability from high-intensity noxious stimuli. To determine the analgesic efficacy of preoperative infiltration with bupivacaine for reduc…

Background. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a disorder with short-term mortality and long-term morbidity. Healthy patients submitted to elective aesthetic plastic surgeries (EAPS) have risk factors to develop VTE not well established yet. T…