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Botulinum toxin (BoNT) for depression: A review of the mechanism of action and its potential place as an adjuvant treatment

3 August 2021 | | PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
BoNT is becoming a recognised efficient treatment for depression, endorsed by several disciplines including psychiatry. Clare Amrani examines the potential mechanism of action and explores the appropriate place of BoNT in the therapeutic armamentarium for depression. How did BoNT become...

OPINION - Who should decide the qualification to do cosmetic surgery?

5 July 2022 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
In my opinion – certainly not the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), if the new requirements in their Cosmetic Surgery Certification Scheme are read correctly, because self-certification without a formal training assessment and formal examination is meaningless. The...

Practising surgery in a war zone: an interview with Dr Volodymyr Melnyk

8 December 2022 |
It is now nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, with Putin announcing a “special military operation” to “denazify and demilitarise” Ukraine. The rest of the world, however, saw it for what it...

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

1 March 2018 | | PMFA - CPD, PMFA - Breast Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
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...

Why I don’t trust the BMA – and why it matters – 24 January 2017

24 January 2017
Editors Note: This is a guest blog from Ankush Dhariwal. It is a personal opinion and posting it on the PMFA News website is not an endorsement of the opinions. However, for those working in the NHS, and in the...

Reconstruction of complex wounds in the trunk and pelvis (part 2)

9 October 2017 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
In this second part of this two-part article we begin by looking at component separation which is a technique of reconfiguring anatomical layers to allow intrinsic reconstruction of the integrity of the anterior abdominal wall. We then move into the...

Photoshopping the face: simulated outcomes of orthofacial surgery

1 December 2014 | | PMFA - Dentistry, PMFA - Imaging, PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Corrective facial surgeries are highly elective procedures. Outcomes depend largely on the nature of the surgery performed (requiring an in-depth knowledge of surgical techniques and anticipated soft tissue changes) and should be predictable in terms of risk and outcomes, in...

OPINION – Cosmetic surgery: a difficult reality with a simple solution

13 September 2022 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
On 1 September 2022, an Independent Review released its long-awaited Report into Cosmetic Surgery in Australia [1]. Its key recommendation reflected the sentiment of our new, peer-reviewed, paper in the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery entitled ‘Cosmetic Surgery Regulation in...

Lipoedema awareness – the current state of play

5 September 2023 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Why do we need awareness? Around 40% of women in the UK are overweight or obese. Yet, within that 40% statistic, is a sub-set of women for whom that is not the full story. They suffer from a condition called...