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How I Do It - Contouring the lower jaw (surgical)

1 October 2014 | | Facial Plastic Surgery
It is essential to clearly understand the patient’s needs so I usually see patients three to four times prior to operating if major changes to appearance are planned. You must also be able to manage expectations and postoperative outcomes; for...

2nd Chance: reconstructive surgery for life reconstruction

1 December 2014 | | Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery
Many populations throughout the developing world have no access to the specialist healthcare needed by patients who have suffered severe burns, war injuries or congenital disorders. The specialties of plastic and maxillofacial surgery can make a vital contribution and PMFA...

CO2 laser treatment of rhinophyma

7 December 2020 | | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, CPD - The PMFA Journal, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
This article has been verified for CPD. Click the button below to answer a few short questions and download a form to be included in your CPD folder. The authors describe their technique and experience of treating rhinophymas with a...

Perceptions and deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 4 July 2016

4 July 2016 |
I would like to take this opportunity to share a blog with Chris Day and the other junior doctors to talk about ‘whistle blowing’ and what it means. Typically, it refers to people who “speak out of turn”, “wash the...

The role of the maxillo-facial surgeon in the management of skull base malignancy

1 June 2014 | | Maxillofacial Surgery, Skull Base Surgery
Whilst ablative surgery remains the principal treatment option for head and neck malignancy, the skull base is the last frontier. The complex anatomy, supreme functionality of the brain, and varied pathology provokes many a detailed discussion in the multidisciplinary team...

Emergenza Sorrisi – Doctors for Smiling Children

1 December 2015 | | Facial Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery
History Our association was born in 2007, originally under the name SmileTrain Italy Onlus, with the aim of operating on children affected by cleft lip and palate in the developing world, offering them the possibility to smile and to have...

Submandibular haematoma with airway obstruction following a warfarin overdose

1 June 2017 | | Maxillofacial Surgery
Submental and submandibular abscesses are frequent in oral and maxillofacial surgery; on the other hand submandibular haematomas are uncommon. However, we encountered a submandibular haematoma, initially masked as a Ludwig’s angina, which was compromising the airway of a warfarinised patient...

Reconstruction of complex wounds in the trunk and pelvis (part 2)

9 October 2017 | | General Plastic Surgery
In this second part of this two-part article we begin by looking at component separation which is a technique of reconfiguring anatomical layers to allow intrinsic reconstruction of the integrity of the anterior abdominal wall. We then move into the...

A picture is worth a thousand words… communicating with your patients more effectively

1 June 2018 | | Aesthetic Medicine, Breast Surgery, Dentistry, Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Hand and Wrist Surgery, Imaging, Maxillofacial Surgery, Oculoplastics, Rhinoplasty, Skull Base Surgery
Communicating information effectively with patients is essential yet often challenging. Plastic Surgeon Gavin Miller takes us through his approach to using online resources to make the process as effective as possible. Getting ideas across to other people isn’t always easy,...

HA dermal filler with lidocaine: initial clinical outcomes

1 August 2015 | | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a natural occurring body polysaccharide essential for various body functions, present in connective tissues, skin, vitreous humour of eye, extracellular matrix, synovial fluid, etc [1]. It was first isolated in bovine vitreous by Mayer and Palmer...

Acid attacks: part 2

1 October 2019 | | General Plastic Surgery, Breast Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery
The PMFA Journal Editor Andrew Burd continues with his exploration of the optimum treatment protocol for managing the devastating injuries wrought by acid attacks (see Part 1 here). In part one of this series I outlined the evolution of my...

Old dogs can learn new tricks: the use of an often overlooked treatment modality for pathologically fractured mandibles

1 December 2021 | | Maxillofacial Surgery
Figure 1: Timeline detailing key events in the patient’s treatment. Whilst commonly affecting the feet, spine and hips in adults, osteomyelitis (OM) can also present to the oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) clinic as pathology of the jaws. Case reports...