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Contrasting contemporary plastic surgery training with that in the late 20th century: ‘thirteen years a slave’

1 May 2019 | James D Frame (Prof) | General Plastic Surgery, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES

The Past Was I a slave? Absolutely not. I loved every minute of my training. I had the choice of career pathway as a young surgeon, but I was hypnotised by enthusiasm and a desire to help people with major...

Malar mounds and festoons

1 April 2014 | Felipe Culaciati | Facial Plastic Surgery, Oculoplastics | blepharoplasty, facelift, festoons, malar edema, malar mounds, oculoplastics, periorbital rejuvenation

Periorbital rejuvenation and blepharoplasty, in particular, are very common procedures nowadays in aesthetic practice. More than 153,000 blepharoplasty procedures were peformed in the USA during 2012. Blepharoplasty can sometimes be a very challenging surgery, especially if the patient presents with...

Facial sensory rehabilitation

1 December 2015 | Eduardo Morera Serna | Facial Plastic Surgery

The authors of this paper show the results of their method for facial sensory rehabilitation using cross-face sural nerve grafts in three patients. All three patients had hemifacial anaesthesia after trauma or intracranial tumour resections and their symptoms varied from...

The effect of skin graft contracture when using artificial dermis

3 June 2015 | Zeeshan Sheikh | General Plastic Surgery | Artificial dermis, Burn, Contracture, Size, Skin graft

This is a report of a prospective clinical trial performed in a single centre in Seoul, South Korea. The group attempted to observe the change in size of skin grafts applied to an artificial dermal substitute (matriderm). Two groups of...

IN RESPONSE TO: Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine - specialties and specialists

1 April 2015 | Lee Seng Khoo | Aesthetic Medicine, General Plastic Surgery

I read with great interest the article ‘Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine: specialties and specialists’ by Professor Andrew Burd published in the Feb/Mar issue of PMFA News. Prof Burd brings up many valid points about the specialty of plastic surgery...

Comment in response to Perceptions and Deceptions a personal blog by the editor 15 Apr 2016

26 April 2016

We have what is called a third table list....small cases under local or regional anesthesia...there was an 8 yr old girl with a diffuse, non pinchable swelling in the chin area. After confirming it was not vascular, we decided for...

Raising the bar for safer cosmetic surgery in the UK – part 2

1 October 2018 | James D Frame (Prof) | General Plastic Surgery

In the second of a two-part article (see Part 1 here) Professor James Frame, from the Anglia Ruskin University, gives us his opinion on what needs to be done to improve cosmetic surgery and patient safety in the UK. Medical...

Cryolipolysis: a review of published clinical data

1 February 2016 | Nestor Demosthenous | Aesthetic Medicine

Definition: Cryolipolysis is derived from the greek language, describing ‘cold’ and ‘fat breakdown’. History The actual phenomenon of cold induced adipocyte necrosis was originally described by Epstein et al. in 1970 who had reported the presence of a “red indurated...

How I Do It- Combination Treatment – Frax Pro™ System with Cosmeceuticals

31 March 2023 | Firas Al-Niaimi (Prof) | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology

The Frax Pro™ is a dual wavelength platform of non-ablative fractional laser technology encompassing the wavelengths 1550 and 1940nm, both in the mid infrared region. This produces tissue coagulation through microscopic zones which ultimately leads to a specific biological response...

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