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How I Do It - Facial modification with Fotona Nd:YAG 1064nm laser

26 March 2024 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
The organic combination of Fotona Nd:YAG 1064nm laser second-level ultra-long pulse width piano mode and cold air can increase the penetration depth of the laser while protecting the epidermis from damage. At the same time, the high tolerance of high...

How I Do It - Wound closure

4 February 2025 | | PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Breast Surgery
Looking to upskill? Professor James Frame and a host of co-authors share their tips and tricks so you can benefit from their experience. I recently saw two wound closures exhibiting poor technique and contributing significant morbidity, including suture site inflammation,...

How I Do It - Innovative delivery devices: Teosyal<sup>®</sup>Pen

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
As aesthetic practitioners, we should always strive to make our patients’ experiences the best they can be. Teosyal®Pen is the first motorised and cordless device specifically engineered for injecting HA dermal filler. It is lightweight at just 40g and offers...

How I Do It - Innovative delivery devices: Juvapen

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
The administration of botulinum toxin is traditionally performed using a small syringe plus needle. There are a few ways this can be performed. Either an integrated insulin syringe is used of 1ml, 0.5ml or 0.3ml which comes attached to a...

How I Do It - Earfold<sup>®</sup>: A new technique for the correction of prominent ears

1 April 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
To follow on from the last issue of PMFA News (now The PMFA Journal) in which we featured two different approaches to otoplasty (see HERE and HERE) Dalvi Humzuh, Sub-Editor for the section, approached Norbert Kang, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive...

CQC regulators and private hospitals need more common sense

1 July 2018 | | PMFA - Breast Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
There is a fundamental flaw in the way regulatory bodies are allowed to pressure and scare perfectly functioning private hospitals. Invariably the regulators themselves are of ordinary stock and have to justify their salaries by increasing administrative workloads on others....

In conversation with Professor James Frame

1 April 2018 | PMFA - Breast Surgery, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Hand & Wrist Surgery
Professor James Frame. Can you give us a bit of background as to why UKAAPS was set up and what the association focuses on? The UK Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery was founded at a meeting of like-minded plastic surgeons...

In conversation with Mehmet Manisali

23 July 2020 | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
We were delighted to catch up with Mehmet Manisali, President of the RSM Section of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, about his background and plans for the Section. Can you tell us a little bit about what led you into the...

In conversation with Afshin Mosahebi

19 March 2021 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
We were delighted to catch up with Professor Afshin Mosahebi, renowned Plastic Surgeon at UCL, about his career and the new Masters of Surgery (MS) in Aesthetics and Minimally-Invasive Aesthetics. Can you tell us a little bit about what led...

In Conversation with Professor Moustapha Hamdi

3 July 2024 | PMFA - Breast Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
We were delighted to speak with Professor Moustapha Hamdi, Professor and Chairman of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at Brussels University Hospital, Belgium, about this career and plans for this year’s CATBBAS. Professor Moustapha Hamdi. Can you tell us...

The importance of nitric oxide in medicine

6 April 2021 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
The harmful effects exerted upon living and injured tissues by free radicals have been explored since the 1980s. Now in 2021 the free radical nitric oxide (NO) is not just a figment of imagination; it is known as one of...

Recent developments in facelift surgery

3 October 2023 | | PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
Early facelifting procedures were documented in the 1900s, where skin undermining with excess skin excision along the hairline was performed. The 1970s witnessed a major change with an upsurge in public interest in facelift surgery, which led to innovative changes...