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Aesthetic restoration following GLP-1 agonist–induced facial volume loss

3 October 2025 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide (Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Rybelsus®) have significantly improved the management of obesity and type 2 diabetes, providing effective weight loss and cardiometabolic benefits. However, as their use becomes more widespread, there has been an increase in...

Transnasal endoscopic choanal atresia surgery

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Surgery is currently the only definitive treatment for congenital choanal atresia (CCA). There are various surgical approaches including transnasal, transeptal or transpalatal. The authors propose that the preferred option is transnasal endoscopic choanal atresia surgery (TECAS) and set out to...

Application of substance P as an osteogenitor in mandibular distraction osteogenesis

1 December 2014 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
In this well organised study the authors demonstrate the benefit of use of substance P to improve the quality of bone during mandibular distraction. Substance P is a neuropeptide that is distributed in those sensory nerve fibres that innervate the...

Is it time for cone-beam CTs to replace the traditional orthopantomogram in the primary diagnosis of temporomandibular joint disorders?

5 August 2014 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery | Cone beam computed tomography, Decision making, Diagnosis, Disorders, Temporomandibular joint, Temporomandibular joint, Female pattern hair loss, Fleur-de-lis
Cone-beam computed tomographic (CT) requires a lower dose of radiation compared to the multidetector CT and provides much more detailed information in 3D about the bony structures of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) when compared to the traditional OPG. In this...

Propranolol as diagnostic tool for infantile haemangiomas

1 April 2014 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Infantile haemangiomas are common, benign vascular tumours. Other vascular lesions, which can mimic infantile haemangiomas, include myofibroma, vascular malformations, rhabdomyosarcoma or dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. The diagnosis of a haemangioma can usually be made based on clinical presentation and medical examination. This...

VITASPARK - a career counselling service with a difference!

7 November 2023 | Research & Development
Focusing on the needs of today’s surgical trainees, Vitaspark has been created and curated by Aishan Patil, a Scottish surgical SpR, and colleagues.

Outcomes and complications of supramaximal levator resection

1 December 2014 | | PMFA - Oculoplastic
This is a report of 35 children with unilateral congenital ptosis who underwent a supramaximal levator resection, involving extensive dissection of levator including cutting Whitnall’s ligament. The average preoperative margin reflex distance to the upper lid (MRD1) was 0.5mm, and...

SMAS facelift plication technique to close large skin defects

10 February 2026 | | PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Resection of skin lesions from the facial region is typically a straightforward procedure, yet the challenge arises in effectively closing the resulting deformity [1]. Surgeons frequently face hurdles, especially when the lesion occupies a restricted anatomical region with limited skin...

The need for resilience as an aesthetic practitioner

10 February 2026 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
Resilience has been generally described as “the process of negotiating, managing and adapting to significant sources of stress or trauma” [1]. However, it may also be described as a personality trait, indicating that the individual has the human ability to...

Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine: specialties and specialists

1 February 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Dr Nikolaos Metatoxos has written an excellent article ‘How to establish a successful practice in aesthetic medicine’, which looks at the business of aesthetic medicine and underlines some very important ethical issues. When comparing hospital doctors and aesthetic medicine practitioners...

Why integrating environmental defence into patient treatment protocols is vital to countering Oxidative Ageing

12 November 2025 | Research & Development
The external environment is leading a savage assault on skin: Oxidative Ageingi is the cumulative, damaging effect of particulate matter, infrared radiation, High Energy Visible Light (HEV, or blue light), pollution, ozone, and UVA/UVB rays, which are outpacing our skin’s...

The scandal of NHS contracts with the independent healthcare sector

20 August 2020 |
Since March 2020 it was sensible medical practice to consider making all possible beds in the NHS available to potentially admit ill patients with COVID-19. The expected admission rate was supposed to risk overwhelming the NHS, so independent sector facilities apparently volunteered and were then contracted to the NHS as priority, with full remuneration for their losses, and all private practitioners were effectively frozen out from seeing, admitting and operating on their own self pay patients.