Descripción: El abordaje transvestibular sublabial superior para la colocación de poste intercrural: 1. es eficiente en los pacientes con nariz hipoproyectada. 2. Combinado con otras técnicas es un recurso técnico conveniente para lograr la mejoría estética de la nariz en cuanto a la proyección de la columnela...

Descripción: La excelencia es la máxima eficaciay la máxima eficiencia en el objetivo elegidoe involucra una calidad superior. La excelencia como tal, es un objetivo inalcanzable ya que es buscar la perfección en un mundo imperfecto...

Descripción: The history of fat transfer dates back to 1893, when Neuber, removed small pieces of fat from the upper arm, and implanted them into a depressed area of the face.1 For the last three decades, the popularity of fat transfer has crescended, as a result of the advent of liposuction, and availability of large amounts of fat for transfer. Several techniques have been used by different...

Descripción: Objective: Evaluation of whether virtual surgery performed on 3-dimensional (3D) nasal airway models can predict postsurgical, biophysical parameters obtained by computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Descripción: In this study, 29 patients with porous high-density polyethylene (group A) and 29 patients with septal cartilage (group B) were enrolled for either spreader or extended septal graft...

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En los últimos años, el concepto de Medicina Anti-Aging ha cobrado un enorme auge, tanto en su continente (la propia denominación y divulgación) como en su contenido (procedimientos diagnósticos, preventivos y terapéuticos propios).

Por: Hassan Abbas Khawaja, MD
Enrique Hernández-Pérez, MD

Descripción: Pocos maestros conservan la estatura académica y moral como para merecer tal reconocimiento a lo largo de toda una carrera amplia y fructífera. Se refleja en sus numerosos alumnos, quienes conservan para ellos respeto incondicional y cariño como el que se le debe a un padre. Un ejemplo clásico de esto es el Profesor Sebastião A. P. Sampaio, maestro de maestros, actual Profesor Emérito de Dermatología en el Hospital das Clínicas de São Paulo, Brasil.

Descripción: Plastic surgeons are basically trained in reconstruction in public and government hospitals, where cosmetic surgery is either prohibited, or is considered unnecessary. However, most of these plastic surgeons, earn a major share of their income from private practice of cosmetic surgery, a specialty in which they are not properly trained. On the other hand, some plastic surgeons claim via media that cosmetic surgery should only be performed by plastic surgeons, and that complications take place in the hands of other specialists, not plastic surgeons.

The aim of this article is to highlight the truth, as to what plastic surgeons do, and what plastic surgeons, should do, to do better in cosmetic surgery, and who is responsible, based on evidence, for a major share of complications in cosmetic surgery.

Descripción: Cosmetic surgery in Pakistan, began in the later half of the last century, when the author started performing cosmetic dermatologic surgery, under local anesthesia. During those days, the author started performing procedures like excision for acne scars, hair transplants with punch and strip grafts, dermabrasion for acne, and other kind of scars, superficial chemical peeling, and started using injectable collagen. The author got ample opportunity assisting cosmetic surgical procedures, performed by imminent visiting plastic surgeons in Pakistan, and observe specific procedures abroad. The author undertook all this training on a private self financed basis. After acquiring more professional knowledge, he started performing procedures like skin grafts, and flaps, blepharoplasties, facelifts, and liposuctions under local anesthesia.