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Z-plasty release of congenital muscular torticollis
Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is common in neonates, with a frequency of 0.3% to 2%, and usually responds to passive stretching below the age of one year. This study evaluated the results of performing an inferior Z-plasty release of the...
Age-specific models for predicting burns mortality
The authors of this paper attempt to add to the numerous burn mortality prediction models which have been described in many papers from many countries, by analysing data from the American Burn Association National Burn Repository. As such they have...
Severe bone resorption in expanded polytetrafluoroethylene chin augmentation
This is a case report describing a 35-year-old woman who had had an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene chin implant inserted 13 years previously through an intraoral incision. She complained of pain in her chin and lower anterior teeth. A cephalogram showed severe...Periocular burns: a literature review of classification, management protocols and outcomes of treatment
The author provides a review of the current literature regarding the principles of classification, management protocols of acute ocular and periocular burns and the role of the burn and oculoplastic surgeon involved in their care. More than two-thirds of facial...Medical racism and the surgical ‘correction’ of the nose in Brazil
Anthropologist Professor Carmen Alvaro Jarrín has conducted extensive research into plastic surgery practice in Brazil. Here, she explains why social and cultural ideas about race may shape rhinoplasty objectives for patients and surgeons in the country. Health professionals worldwide are...Perceptions and Deceptions (A Death in Hong Kong.) 6 December 2016
An evolving essay and insight into Medicine and the Law in contemporary Hong Kong. A girl’s brain was destroyed due to medical negligence. She had entrusted her life to a celebrity cosmetic surgeon who was going to make her breasts...Letter from Hong Kong (8 May 2020)
The latest 'letter' from our man in Hong Kong, The PMFA Journal Co-editor Andrew Burd.Improving cosmesis after breast implant removal
Removing breast implants has a profound effect on the patient’s appearance; in this article the authors, both expert breast surgeons, discuss how to optimise the cosmetic result. Removing breast implants has a profound effect on the patient’s appearance and we...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....Vivacy introduces ground-breaking commercial policy
The Vivacy Loyalty Scheme in a nutshell: great prices for high-quality products all year round. We constantly check our prices across the whole market and we are confident that we offer great value and...
Hair Loss and Restoration
Shapiro and Otbeg elegantly address the causes of hair loss, both idiopathic and pathological, and explain the treatments currently and the evidence behind them Our understanding of the pathophysiology of hair loss has evolved greatly in recent years. Before the...
