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How I Do It - Approaches to acne treatment: Pulsed-dye laser

1 August 2018 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Acne vulgaris is the most common skin disease worldwide and inflammatory acne has significant psychological impact with potential for long-term emotional and physical sequelae [1]. Energy based treatments are useful both as adjuncts to traditional therapies and particularly for patients...

How I Do It - Non-ablative laser treatment of surgical and acne-induced scars

1 December 2022 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Scars tell stories of life – almost everyone has at least one. The disappearance of postoperative scars is important to many of our patients. This is particularly indicated for aesthetically dominant areas such as the face, neck and décolleté, but...

Focus on: Cosmeceuticals (part 2 - continued)

1 June 2016 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
The previous sections in this special focus (see Cosmeceuticals (part 2) and Skin anatomy and photoageing and Definitions, regulations and a review of the market) have covered skin anatomy, photoageing and cosmeceutical ingredients in detail. In this section I will...

The role of the maxillo-facial surgeon in the management of skull base malignancy

1 June 2014 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Whilst ablative surgery remains the principal treatment option for head and neck malignancy, the skull base is the last frontier. The complex anatomy, supreme functionality of the brain, and varied pathology provokes many a detailed discussion in the multidisciplinary team...

Raising the bar for safer cosmetic surgery in the UK – part 2

1 October 2018 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
In the second of a two-part article (see Part 1 here) Professor James Frame, from the Anglia Ruskin University, gives us his opinion on what needs to be done to improve cosmetic surgery and patient safety in the UK. Medical...

OPINION - Influencers affect us all: but are they as good as we think?

16 May 2022 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Recently I was approached by the son of a 75-year-old lady for a second opinion on a large fungating malignant melanoma on the outer lateral aspect of her left thigh. She had noticed an enlarging 50p size pigmented lesion just...

Skin antisepsis and the prevention of infection: where tradition, science and guidelines collide

5 September 2023 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
“…the quality of the studies was not good enough for the committee to make a strong recommendation for the choice of antiseptic preparation.” NICE Guidelines NG125 Skin preparation before an invasive procedure is a part of all surgical procedures and...

Photorejuvenation: Light & Bright™ treatment for enhanced skin quality

4 October 2024 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Improving skin quality has emerged as a significant trend in recent years, driven by the synergy between at-home skincare routines and diverse aesthetic procedures administered by medical professionals. With sun-induced skin damage manifesting early in life, there’s a surging demand...

Stratifying preoperative risk in revision augmentation: the six Cs

1 February 2016 | | PMFA - Breast Surgery
Breast augmentation is the most frequently performed cosmetic surgical procedure in the UK [1], and with an increasing number of providers, plastic surgeons are managing revisions without information pertaining to the original procedure. Anticipating the features of successive generations of...

Could a technology from the past change skin disinfection for the future?

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to argue that the field of medicine has seen some of the most significant scientific advances of the past 100 years: the cracking of genetic coding, the advances in pharmacology, the development of biopharmaceuticals and the...

HA dermal filler with lidocaine: initial clinical outcomes

1 August 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a natural occurring body polysaccharide essential for various body functions, present in connective tissues, skin, vitreous humour of eye, extracellular matrix, synovial fluid, etc [1]. It was first isolated in bovine vitreous by Mayer and Palmer...

Response to the Keogh Review

1 April 2014 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
On 13 February 2014 the UK Government published its response to the Keogh Review of the regulation of cosmetic interventions (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulation-of-cosmetic-interventions-government-response). This response has been much anticipated by the fields of plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine and inevitably has provoked...