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How I Do It - Tear trough rejuvenation

1 June 2022 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
A smooth convexity from the lower eyelid to the upper cheek with flawless skin is considered a desirable feature and a sign of youth. The opposite leads to ‘shadows’ around the eyes and a tired appearance or sunken eyes. Patient...

Profile of a tertiary referral oculoplastics service in the UK

23 March 2021 | | PMFA - Oculoplastic
The provision of safe and effective ophthalmic care to large patient populations has always been challenging. Severe restrictions of outpatient clinical activity due to the COVID-19 crisis has compounded this problem, with 26,800 appointments cancelled in our unit in the...

Skin cancer AI approved by NHS as millions skip sun cream, new data shows

7 May 2025 | news, dermatology, skin cancer, melanoma, UV, exposure, sunlight, AI, technology
New reports reveal that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has approved a new AI technology for the NHS to help reduce waiting times for skin cancer diagnoses after it was found that Britons are actively letting themselves burn...

Choosing anaesthesia for oral surgery

11 February 2014 | | PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
This article offers guidance in choosing the most appropriate modality of anaesthesia for oral surgery and the setting in which it is delivered. It attempts to classify the different types of anaesthesia into local anaesthesia, sedation, which it further sub...

Text Atlas of Wound Management

1 June 2014 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
The authors in the preface of Text Atlas of Wound Management acknowledge that this is a challenging and difficult area of medicine. Their book aims to deconstruct and simplify the management of different types of wound by showing us real...

Body dysmorphic disorder in a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery clinic

3 June 2015 | | PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is under recognised and under detected among patients undergoing facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. Patients with BDD require psychiatric care not cosmetic surgery. In order to protect patients and surgeons, sound screening for BDD preoperatively should...

How I Do It - Contouring the lower jaw (surgical)

1 October 2014 | | PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
It is essential to clearly understand the patient’s needs so I usually see patients three to four times prior to operating if major changes to appearance are planned. You must also be able to manage expectations and postoperative outcomes; for...

Perceptions and deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 4 July 2016

4 July 2016 |
I would like to take this opportunity to share a blog with Chris Day and the other junior doctors to talk about ‘whistle blowing’ and what it means. Typically, it refers to people who “speak out of turn”, “wash the...

Melanoma skin cancer: how can we improve early detection in the UK?

1 April 2020 | | PMFA - Dermatology
With melanoma rates increasing globally, should there be screening of high-risk groups? Stephen Hayes takes a look at how Australia has reduced its melanoma mortality and asks whether a similar model should be adopted elsewhere. In Britain, some 16,000 new...

Multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer conservation – therapeutic mammoplasty

1 June 2018 | | PMFA - CPD, PMFA - Breast Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Edinburgh-based plastic surgeon Ewa Majdak-Paredes provides us with a comprehensive review of therapeutic mammoplasty, a multidisciplinary approach to breast-conserving surgery with an emphasis on oncological safety and good aesthetic outcomes. Breast cancer Each year over 55,000 women in the UK...

Reconstructive Surgery in Post Colonial Africa

1 October 2013 | | PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Both plastic and maxillo-facial surgery developed out of armed combat. Initially, general surgeons attached to the military might perform reconstructive attempts, but more realistically and pragmatically, destructive surgery was more suited to their situation. Amputation of limbs undoubtedly saved lives...

Masculinising chest wall surgery (‘top surgery’)

31 March 2023 | | PMFA - CPD, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
This article has been verified for CPD. Click the button below to answer a few short questions and download a form to be included in your CPD folder. In this feature article, we discuss our experience in masculinising chest wall...