Ken Stewart is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and at St John's Hospital in Livingston, Scotland. A full member of BAAPS and BAPRAS, he is active in the field of plastic surgery research, in particular outcomes from aesthetic surgery and lectures extensively. He runs the Scottish national ear reconstruction programme for children and adults with ear malformations. Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
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How I Do It - Otoplasty
Otoplasty techniques to correct ear prominence can be broadly divided in two categories. Suturing techniques and scoring or weakening techniques. Suturing is the approach we prefer, due to more predictable results and less occurrence of non-correctable complications. Suturing techniques involve...
Choosing a 3D printer for reconstructive surgery
3D printing was first developed in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 2010s that the additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology advanced enough to become available to those outside of specialist laboratories. 3D printing has also begun to...
EURAPS 2015
As plastic surgery becomes increasingly sub specialised, academic meetings covering specific niches multiply like the proverbial lapine model. Whilst such meetings satisfy the educational requirements of the supraspecialist within us all they arguably detract from our alter ego the generalist....
