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Aesthetic Clinic Marketing in the Digital Age

1 October 2018 | | Aesthetic Medicine, Breast Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery
Wendy Lewis is considered to be the queen of social media within the international aesthetic medicine community and this book confirms her position. It provides a comprehensive overview of all the different online platforms. The content is clearly laid out...

Selection of full thickness skin graft donor site influences extent of contraction

1 February 2017 | | General Plastic Surgery | Burn surgery, Cicatrix, Burn scar contracture, Full thickness skin graft, Skin grafting
Full thickness skin grafts (FTSG) remain a standard reconstructive option in burns surgery, resulting in lesser secondary contracture and improved cosmesis compared to split skin grafts. Although the recipient site is known to influence contraction, the role of the donor...

Transnasal endoscopic choanal atresia surgery

1 August 2017 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | Bilateral, congenital choanal atresia, endoscopic repair, unilateral
Surgery is currently the only definitive treatment for congenital choanal atresia (CCA). There are various surgical approaches including transnasal, transeptal or transpalatal. The authors propose that the preferred option is transnasal endoscopic choanal atresia surgery (TECAS) and set out to...

Hand Flaps

9 February 2016 | | Hand and Wrist Surgery | Flap, Hand, Reconstruction, Review, Soft tissue, Upper extremity
This article reads as a book chapter, providing an overview of the different aps available to cover soft tissue defects in the hand. It starts off by providing a general introduction to the functional and anatomical differences of the hand,...

Do the benefits of scaphoidectomy and four-corner fusion for SLAC last?

1 October 2013 | | Hand and Wrist Surgery
The paper concisely covers the history and definition of scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC) wrist. The treatments options are described in broad terms and referenced. Forty patients’ records are assessed retrospectively; their data having been collected prospectively in a structured and...

Occlusal splint, injections or arthrocentesis in myofascial pain

1 December 2018 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | Arthrocentesis, Internal derangement, Myofascial pain, Stabilization splint, Trigger point injection
Facial pain is a fairly common complaint and may present in a myriad of symptoms. These patients present to both dentists and general practitioners and could end up referred to a number of specialists. Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) may originate from...

Want to do exciting entrepreneurial research? – ask the space scientists

1 February 2015 | | Aesthetic Medicine
Advances in medical technology have improved the quality of life for people around the globe and contributed towards a general increase in life expectancy. Much of this can be attributed to a synthesis between the experience of medical professionals and...
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The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery: Avoidance and Treatment, 4th Edition

1 December 2020 | | General Plastic Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery
This is a well-written, comprehensive, two-volume textbook on all core topics of plastic and reconstructive surgery, which is designed to guide readers through commonly seen complications, possible solutions and the operative steps required to achieve this. Volume one contains five...

Perceptions and deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 8 December 2016

8 December 2016 |
A Death in Hong Kong An evolving essay and insight into medicine and the law in contemporary Hong Kong (part two). The death of a young person. A fit and healthy person. A person for whom adult life has only...

The scandal of NHS contracts with the independent healthcare sector

20 August 2020 |
Since March 2020 it was sensible medical practice to consider making all possible beds in the NHS available to potentially admit ill patients with COVID-19. The expected admission rate was supposed to risk overwhelming the NHS, so independent sector facilities apparently volunteered and were then contracted to the NHS as priority, with full remuneration for their losses, and all private practitioners were effectively frozen out from seeing, admitting and operating on their own self pay patients.

How I Do It - Postoperative care following aesthetic breast surgery – augmentation, reduction / mastopexy and augmentation mastopexy

1 August 2019 | | Breast Surgery, General Plastic Surgery
The first aspect of postoperative care is to prevent or pre-empt potential problems; two main concerns are bleeding and infection. Towards the end of the procedure, I always undertake an antiseptic or saline washout before closing and check the blood...

How will Keogh impact non-surgical services?

1 June 2014 | | Aesthetic Medicine, Dermatology
Following the PIP implant scandal of 2010, The Department of Health (DH) commissioned a review of the regulation of cosmetic interventions in September 2012. In April 2013, following extensive consultation the review panel published its recommendations. The recommendations set out...