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New game, new playing field: plastic surgery interviews in COVID-19

4 February 2021 | | General Plastic Surgery
COVID-19 has drastically altered social norms. Anyone who dares to shake your hand, step within a two metre radius, or not wear their face mask is awarded disapproving looks. These public health precautions are now impacting plastic surgery residency recruitment,...

A plea for reconstructive plastic surgery in the routine care of sarcoma patients

1 December 2013 | | General Plastic Surgery
The authors from the Mayo Clinic demonstrate the advantage of early intervention by plastic surgeons in the care of patients with sarcoma. A retrospective case study review looks at the wound complication rate of surgery for those patients who have...

Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of the Head and Neck: Current Techniques and Flap Atlas

1 December 2017 | | Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck
Head and neck reconstruction continues to provide a challenge to surgeons, driving innovative approaches in free-flap surgery and a need to embrace developing technologies. This excellent text, written primarily by authors from the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas,...

MD/PhDs or MD/MBAs: which do we need more to innovate in plastic surgery?

1 February 2014 | | General Plastic Surgery
I would like to thank Arlen Meyers and Victor Castro for submitting this article. One of the problems that I have seen in my professional lifetime is the failure of entrepreneurs to grasp that there is no infinite health care...

Plastic surgery founding father Ivo Pitanguy on life, learning and legends – remembering a giant

30 July 2020 | | General Plastic Surgery
World renowned Plastic Surgeon Ivo Pitanguy passed away on 6 August 2016 at the age of 93 just a day after carrying the Olympic torch for the Rio Games. Read on to learn about the life of this giant of...

Contrasting contemporary plastic surgery training with that in the late 20th century: ‘thirteen years a slave’

1 May 2019 | | General Plastic Surgery
The Past Was I a slave? Absolutely not. I loved every minute of my training. I had the choice of career pathway as a young surgeon, but I was hypnotised by enthusiasm and a desire to help people with major...

EAFPS 2020

19 September 2020 -20 September 2020
By Irina Garlea-Robu, ENT Specialty Doctor, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, UK. In unprecedented times, the 43rd annual conference of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS) became the world’s first entirely virtual conference dedicated...

EPSC 2022

20 January 2022 -22 January 2022 | ENT, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Rhinoplasty
Join us to interact with global key opinion leaders at the 7th Edition of the Emirates Plastic Surgery Congress (EPSC) 2022 which will be held on 20-22 January 2022 at the Conrad Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates in conjunction with...

ENT UK BSFPS Annual Meeting & Junior Day

6 October 2022 -7 October 2022 | ENT, Facial Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery

EAFPS 2021

15 September 2021 -18 September 2021 | General Plastic Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, ENT, Rhinoplasty, Dermatology, Maxillofacial Surgery, Aesthetic Medicine, Oculoplastics
Following on from the immensely successful virtual EAFPS Conference in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, a return to an in-person face-to-face meeting was greatly welcomed and appreciated by all, allowing us the opportunity to reunite with colleagues from around the...

In conversation with Professor James Frame

1 April 2018 | Breast Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Hand and 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...

Plastic Surgery - The Meeting 2020

16 October 2020 -19 October 2020