Divorce, antidepressants, or weight gain/loss can add years to your face
Your mother's wrinkles — or lack there of, may not be the best predictor of how you'll age. In fact, a new study claims just the opposite. The study, involving identical twins, suggests that despite...
View ArticleNew type of botulinum toxin appears to be well tolerated and may help reduce...
Injections with a new type of botulinum toxin appears to be well tolerated and may help to improve the appearance of moderate to severe forehead lines with no evidence of diminishing treatment response...
View ArticleFrom connective tissue to bones
Cartilage, bones and the internal walls of blood vessels can be created by using common connective tissue cells from human skin. Researchers in reconstructive plastic surgery at Linköping University...
View ArticleMathematics taking guesswork out of plastic surgery tissue transfer
Plastic surgeons are turning to mathematics to take the guesswork out of efforts to ensure that live tissue segments that are selected to restore damaged body parts will have enough blood and oxygen to...
View ArticleGot migraines? New study proves forehead lifts can erase years and headaches
Migraine headaches are a drain — not only on the estimated 30 million Americans who suffer from them, but on the economy, too. Because pain and other symptoms caused by migraine headaches can be quite...
View ArticlePlastic surgeons should be part of disaster relief planning, response
When a terrorist bomb explodes, a tornado rips through a town, a hurricane devastates a region, or wildfires ravage homes and businesses, plastic surgeons are not typically atop the list of emergency...
View ArticleStudy examines treatment and outcomes for nasal fractures
Both minimally invasive and traditional open approaches can successfully repair nasal fractures, provided the procedure is matched to the individual fracture, according to a report in the...
View ArticleSurgery potentially best option for severe migraine headaches
The disability from migraine headaches is an enormous health burden affecting over 30 million Americans.
View ArticleFirst near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of...
View ArticleUse of rib cartilage grafts in rhinoplasty results in patient satisfaction,...
Rib cartilage from human donors is well tolerated as a grafting material in nasal plastic surgery and yields positive functional, structural and cosmetic results, even in complex cases, according to a...
View ArticleLast-resort lower-body amputation effective in extreme cases of bone...
A landmark, 25-year review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down for severe pelvic bone infections shows the therapy can add years and quality of...
View ArticleSynthetic, dissolving plates ease repairs of nasal septum defects
Attaching cartilage to plates made of the resorbable material polydioxanone appears to facilitate corrective surgery on the nasal septum, the thin cartilage separating the two airways, according to a...
View ArticleFacial aging is more than skin deep
Facelifts and other wrinkle-reducing procedures have long been sought by people wanting to ward off the signs of aging, but new research suggests that it takes more than tightening loose skin to...
View ArticleStudy examines factors that may predict if patients will be satisfied with...
A study of patients undergoing elective facial plastic surgery suggests that older patients and those currently being treated for depression may be more likely to be satisfied with the results of their...
View ArticleUp to 1 in 4 patients report more physical problems a year after surgery than...
One in seven patients experience more pain, physical and emotional problems a year after surgery than before their operation and a quarter have less vitality. Those are the key findings of a research...
View ArticlePatients seek revision plastic surgery to correct asymmetric nasal tips,...
Patients who seek a second surgery to revise their rhinoplasty often do so because they are dissatisfied with the symmetry of their nasal tip and because they experience nasal obstructions, according...
View ArticlePatients find computer imaging before rhinoplasty moderately accurate, useful
Computer imaging to predict how patients will look following plastic surgery involving the nose appears to be moderately accurate, and patients value its inclusion in the preoperative consultation,...
View ArticleAssessment tool predicts blood clot risk after plastic surgery
Patients undergoing plastic or reconstructive surgery should receive a risk assessment before their procedure to predict whether they'll develop potentially fatal blood clots in the legs or lungs,...
View ArticleFat cells become useful stem cells in tissue reconstruction
Two studies appearing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation 19(10) discuss stem cells derived from adipose (fat) cells and their potential use in plastic surgery and tissue reconstruction. The...
View ArticleHow to look younger without plastic surgery
Jena psychologists were able to prove that the volunteer testers were systematically wrong at estimating other people's age after having adapted to the faces of people of a specific age group by...
View ArticleMinimally invasive technique appears helpful to reanimate facial paralysis
A procedure involving only one small incision and no major modifications to bone can be used to transpose a tendon and appears helpful in reanimating the lower face after paralysis, according to a...
View ArticleTaking unpleasant surprises out of cosmetic surgery with 3D...
For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons' offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to...
View ArticlePeriocular treatment improves eye comfort and quality of life for patients...
Patients with facial paralysis who underwent surgical treatment for a condition that leaves them unable to completely close their eyes reported improvement in comfort around the eyes and overall...
View ArticlePersonalized 3-D avatars for real life
An avatar is really no more than a graphical representation, generally human, which is associated with a user for identification purposes. Avatars can be either photographs or art drawings, and certain...
View ArticleSurgery in patients with RA is often 'too little, too late'
A new study published by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that one of the most common conditions caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is best treated surgically, sooner rather than later.
View ArticleBig Breasts Can Be an Even Bigger Pain Requiring Surgical Relief
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to pop-culture portrayals, big breasts aren't always an asset; for some women, they can be a literal pain in the neck.
View ArticleUnique breast oncology and plastic surgery offer superior outcomes
(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicians and researchers strive for the day when drugs, radiation and even ultrasound will be used to obliterate tumors, surgical removal of breast cancer remains the standard...
View ArticleTexas man gets first full face transplant in US
(AP) -- A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old...
View ArticleNew electrically-conductive polymer nanoparticles can generate heat to kill...
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have modified electrically-conductive polymers, commonly used in solar energy applications, to develop revolutionary polymer nanoparticles (PNs) for a...
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