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Surgical management of refractory osteoradionecrosis

21 February 2020 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | Osteoradionecrosis, free flap, management, mandibular, surgery
This is a French single-centre, 10-year experience of 55 surgical resection and reconstruction procedures. They claim an overall effectiveness rate of 92.3%. Thity-six segmental and 19 marginal mandibulectomies were performed. A variety of free flaps were used with soft tissue...

Ablepharon-macrostomia syndrome

1 April 2020 | | Oculoplastics, Facial Plastic Surgery
The ablepharon-macrostomia syndrome is a very rare condition caused by a dominant mutation in the TWIST2 gene. Congenital defects include rudimentary eyelids, macrostomia, ambiguous genitalia and campodactyly. Neonates are at risk of severe corneal exposure without intervention. Previous reports have...

Extracapsular dissection versus parotidectomy

9 June 2020 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | benign parotid tumour, extracapsular dissection, literature review, superficial parotidectomy
This is a literature review of 16 papers using the PRISMA protocol. In comparing the two techniques, not surprisingly, they found that the extracapsular dissection had a reduced facial nerve paralysis, Frey syndrome and operation time but also a reduced...

CD73 in aggressive basal cell carcinoma

5 August 2020 | | Oculoplastics
This is a retrospective review looking at levels of CD73 in aggressive basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) that invade the orbit. Eleven patients who underwent orbital exenteration for invasion by BCCs were compared with 10 matched controls who had simple nodular...

Post-truth bogus science – cosmetic surgical research concerns support the need for research integrity watchdog in Australia

17 April 2024 | | General Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Medicine
The post-truth phenomenon has become a worldwide problem. The absence of a research integrity watchdog in Australia is causing related concern in aesthetic surgery, with the risk of research misconduct being allowed to prosper and benefit vested commercial interests. We...

Masculinising chest wall surgery (‘top surgery’)

31 March 2023 | | General Plastic Surgery, CPD - The PMFA Journal
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...

Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)

31 May 2021 |
On the 8 December 2020, Justice Judianna Barnes sentenced Dr Mak Wan-ling to three and a half years in prison. The charge for which she was found guilty was gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). She had injected a contaminated blood sample into a patient and the patient had died. The conviction was fundamentally flawed.

BAS (British Association of Sclerotherapists) 2019 Conference

14 May 2019 | Aesthetic Medicine
Report by Hilary Furber, BAS Operations Manager. An enthusiastic group of over 80 surgeons, doctors and nurses gathered in May at the magnificent lakeside Eton Dorney Conference Centre near Windsor for the British Association of Sclerotherapists’ (BAS) 2019 Conference. This...

The gender affirmation surgery MDT

1 February 2019 | | Breast Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery
The authors provide a comprehensive and thought-provoking discussion of the multidisciplinary nature of caring for someone undergoing gender reassignment surgery. In the last 50 years in the UK an estimated 130,000 people have changed their gender assigned at birth (assigned...

Breast augmentation from a patient perspective

21 June 2022 | | Breast Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
When I was 17 and saw Pamela Anderson on Baywatch I knew I wanted to have breast implants. A plastic surgeon had an office nearby so I went to find out more. The woman who spoke with me was lovely,...

Virtual learning post lockdown

10 July 2020 | | Aesthetic Medicine, COVID-19 - The PMFA Journal, Breast Surgery, Dentistry, Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery, Hand and Wrist Surgery, Imaging, Maxillofacial Surgery, Oculoplastics, Rhinoplasty, Skull Base Surgery, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
The rapid onset and intensity of the COVID-19 pandemic has required some radical changes in most areas of our professional lives, including a chance to update traditional approaches to learning. Virtual learning is the use of remote video conferencing software,...

The role of maxillomandibular advancement surgery in obstructive sleep apnoea

1 August 2014 | | Maxillofacial Surgery
Facial surgery for the correction of acquired or developmental skeletal and occlusal abnormalities has been practised within the scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) for several decades. OMFS surgeons have an understanding of the influence of skeletal movements on...