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Mercy Mission: all aboard with Mercy Ships off the coast of West Africa

1 December 2013 | Leo Cheng | Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery

Countries along the coast of West Africa are amongst the poorest in the world. Extreme levels of poverty often lead to poor outcomes or fatalities in many medical conditions that would be eminently treatable, with good outcomes in more developed...

Medicinal leech therapy in plastic surgery

1 August 2017 | Harsh Samarendra, Peter Kalu | General Plastic Surgery

The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) has played a role in treating illness for over 3500 years [1]. It has survived rapid paradigm shifts in medical sciences and knowledge. In Ancient Rome, the use of leeches for bloodletting was propagated by...

Temporomandibular disorders – a surgeon’s view

1 August 2016 | Peter Korczak | Maxillofacial Surgery

The temporomandibular joint is unique, in that it has a fibrocartilaginous intra-articular disc and has a ginglyomo-arthrodial action. The disc is designed to allow for the gliding movement down the posterior slope of the articular eminence with little, if any,...

Vascular complications Part 1: Prevention

7 October 2020 | Jani van Loghem, Pieter Siebenga, Job Thuis | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology, General Plastic Surgery

- VIDEO CONTENT AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE - Vascular complications from the use of soft tissue fillers can be devastating. In the first of a two-part series (click here for Part 2), the authors discuss how to avoid these adverse...

Thermal injury and false eyelashes

1 April 2020 | Siddarth Nardeosingh, Annie SeeWah Tung | General Plastic Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, Dermatology, Oculoplastics, CPD - The PMFA Journal

Please Click here for the CPD Feedback form on this article The authors provide a case of cyanoacrylate glue causing a thermal burn on the eyelid and explain how this type of burn should be managed. The use of false...

Pinpoint technique: a safe procedure for skin resection in correction of ptotic breasts in revision augmentation plasty

1 March 2018 | Werner H Beekman, Max V Van Burink, Vivian K Beekman | Breast Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, CPD - The PMFA Journal

The authors introduce us to the ‘pinpoint technique’ a variation in skin excision to eliminate the notorious T-junction in mammary revision augmentation. The Wise-pattern skin excision is widely used to correct ptotic breasts, or in breast implant revision surgery when...

Anatomy of the ageing lip

1 December 2016 | Sotirios Foutsizoglou | Aesthetic Medicine

With lip augmentation an ever popular option for those seeking more youthful looks it is vital that practitioners have a proper understanding of anatomy. In the first of our two-part special focus (see here for Part 2) on lips Dr...

Laser and light-based treatments for pigmented lesions

1 December 2017 | Paolo Bonan (Prof), Nicola Bruscino | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology

The authors detail the types of lasers and light-based devices that can be used in the treatment of epidermal and dermal pigmentations. Skin colour differences have, for centuries, been associated with the economic, political and social status of a person;...

The future and a summary of the past

1 August 2014 | Yves-Gerard Illouz (Prof) | Aesthetic Medicine, General Plastic Surgery

From liposuction to adipose stem cells; from regenerative medicine to tissue engineering; and a vision of the future. Part 3 Adipose stem cells There is a major clinical need for strategies that adequately reconstruct the soft tissue defects after deep...

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