First Fractional Laser FDA Cleared For Striae
Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Lux1540™ Fractional non-ablative laser handpiece has received the first clearance by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of striae (stretch marks) using a fractional laser... (Source: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 02/05/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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Two Studies Find Artefill(R) To Be A Long-Term Treatment Option For Facial Lipoatrophy
Suneva Medical, a privately-held aesthetic medical device company, announced that two clinical studies suggest Artefill may be a safe, effective, long-term treatment option for age-related and HIV lipoatrophy patients... (Source: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 02/03/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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Growth Factor Gene Shown To Be A Key To Cleft Palate
Cleft palate has been linked to dozens of genes. During their investigation of one of these genes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were surprised to find that cleft palate occurs both when the gene is more active and when it is less active than normal... (Source: Cleft Palate News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 02/03/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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Back to the big tent
I am constantly reminded about how different things are these days. Different especially in how plastic surgeons view themselves. When I began my training there was a segmentation between ‘real’ plastic surgeons (meaning those that did traditional reconstructive plastic surgery) and the cosmeticians (those surgeons who did cosmetic surgery). Even as a trainee I found this disingenuous. My experience was that as a plastic surgeon got more senior in his or her practice they tended to do more cosmetic surgery. The peculiar tension between experienced, respected plastic surgeons and what they were actually doing, versus the ridicule and shame heaped upon them for doing cosmetic surgery, always made me uneasy and was difficult to understand. This tension apparently all got too much when a g......
POSTED 02/02/2010 at 08:06 AM --
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University Of Florida Surgeons, Research Biologists Create Scale To Grade Shark Bite Severity
Shark attack! These words can send waves of fear through the public and often guarantee prominent coverage in the news media - even if the bite is little more than a scratch. To better communicate the actual severity of the bite, University of Florida researchers have created a grading scale, similar to how burn severity is ranked by degrees... (Source: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 01/31/2010 at 03:00 AM --
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An Analysis of the Economic Recession's Impact on the Practice of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Facial plast Surg 2010; 26: 054-057DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245067© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | Full text (Source: Facial Plastic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 07:55 AM --
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Multiple Revenue Streams from Your Existing and New Practice Opportunities: Focusing on Core Values Versus Distractions
This article relates some of the strategies taken from the popular business development literature to the setting of plastic surgery practice development.[...]© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | Abstract | Full text (Source: Facial Plastic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 07:55 AM --
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The Medical Spa: An Opportunity or Nightmare?
This article describes the positives and negatives of opening a spa from construction through personnel.[...]© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | Abstract | Full text (Source: Facial Plastic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 07:55 AM --
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Franchise Medicine: How I Avoid Being a Commodity in a Global Market
Facial plast Surg 2010; 26: 034-038DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245062ABSTRACTAs facial plastic surgery becomes more global, pressures for practices to become commoditized will increase. Commoditized practices are those in which price drives the quality of the product. Franchised surgical practices have also recently increased within the United States and abroad. These are always commoditized by their corporate philosophies. There are better ways to create value than to lower price to compete with a neighboring practice. By establishing a Transcendent Relationship™ of growth, both the surgeon and the patient are more satisfied with their facial plastic surgical experiences. Key tools helpful in predicting future directions for a practice, the Four Compass Points™ and the Average Best P......
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 07:55 AM --
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Strategies to Grow Your Practice in a Struggling Economy
This article introduces the concept of Retailicine, combining inherent edicts of medicine with the best practices in business, so today's aesthetic physician can develop strategies for success in any economy. Through the efficient use of marketing strategies catered to aesthetic medicine, aesthetic practices can thrive. Emphasizing the patient's experience, effectively using the Internet, and an ego-devoid introspective analysis of the flaws of one's practice are essential for any successful aesthetic physician to grow and be prosperous despite any shortfalls in the economy.[...]© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | Abstract | Full text (Source: Facial Plastic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 07:55 AM --
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Bariatric Surgery Can Be Safer Than Living With Obesity
Bariatric weight-loss surgery may sound dangerous and complicated, but a Geisinger physician warns that the real danger may be a life of obesity. "There are risks associated with bariatric surgery, as there are with any surgical procedure, but the risks associated with the procedure may pale in comparison to the health complications that can be caused by obesity," said Christopher Still, D.O... (Source: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 01/30/2010 at 03:00 AM --
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Awards Season Yin and Yang
We Americans love awards. We have them in entertainment including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, MTV Awards, Grammy Awards, Country Music Awards, in more cerebral spheres of the arts we have the Pulitzer Prizes that include journalism, fiction, poetry and plays and in medicine we have the Lasker Prizes for research. The only things that Americans love more than the awards are awards shows. Indeed, we have a new type of television shows called ‘reality TV’ in which people compete to win cash or prizes. (Source: Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/29/2010 at 07:57 AM --
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Internal jugular vein duplication
Paolo Biondi, Giuseppe Colella, Giulio Gherardini, Gianpaolo Tartaro, Raffaele RausoIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2009 42(2):273-274 (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
POSTED 01/29/2010 at 07:56 AM --
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Dand: Reply
Yadav Prabha S, Ahmad Quazi G, Shankhdhar Vinay K, Nambi G IIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2009 42(2):272-273 (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Use of Thomas splint in salvaging free flaps of the lower limb in violent postoperative patients
Bhaskara K G, Kale Subhash MIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2009 42(2):271-272 (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Comments on foucher's flap
Kamath B JagannathIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2009 42(2):270-271 (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Congenital upper auricular detachment: Report of two unusual cases
Agarwal PawanIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2009 42(2):265-268Two unusual cases of congenital bilateral ear deformity have been presented. The deformity is characterized by upper auricular detachment on the right side with anotia on the left side in the first case and upper auricular detachment on the left side with normal ear on the right side in the second case. An attempt has been made to correlate the presented deformity with the embryological - foetal development of the auricle. Satisfactory correction can be obtained by repositioning the auricle back in to its normal position. (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Aplasia cutis congenita: Two cases of non-scalp lesions
In this report, two cases of non-scalp ACC occurring in the lower limbs are presented and a brief review of the literature is conducted. (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
We report a case of a 27-year-old newly married thin-built patient with avulsion and traumatic degloving of the penile and scrotal skin, with exposure of the corpora cavernosa and copus spongiosum of penis and testes as his loose clothes got entangled in a paddy harvesting machine accidently. Reconstruction was performed using a hypogastric flap and split skin graft, achieving a satisfactory aesthetic result and sexual functions. (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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Successful management of free osteocutaneous fibula flap with anomalous vascularity of the skin paddle
We present a case of an anomalous musculocutaneous perforator, which originated from the proximal part of the posterior tibial artery, passed through the soleus muscle and supplied the skin paddle. The flap was elevated as a single composite unit and was managed by two separate vascular anastomosis at the recipient site, one for the peroneal vessels and the other for the anomalous perforator. (Source: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery)...
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