Plastic Surgery
From the Journals
Surgeons successfully reattach testis after wrong-site surgery
“The take-home message is that microsurgery can be used to reattach an organ, in the case of a wrong-site surgery.”
Opinion
Detransition, baby: Examining factors leading to ‘detransitioning’ and regret in the transgender community
Comments about the finality of gender-affirmative procedures by cisgender people reveal a more deep-seated issue – general distrust of individual...
Feature
Dermatologists take to TikTok to share their own ‘hacks’
Laypeople are still the dominant producers – and have the most views – of dermatology content on TikTok.
Conference Coverage
Filler complications involving vascular necrosis, vision changes on the rise
The three most common injection sites involving necrosis and vision changes were the cheek, the nose, and the nasolabial fold.
Feature
ED docs are cleaning up the messes of medical tourism
“It’s unfairly shifting routine outpatient surgical followup (and liability) onto me and extra cost to [the patient].”
Feature
Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Pandemic took a cut of cosmetic procedures in 2020
The number of minimally invasive procedures dropped by 16%, compared with 2019.
Aesthetic Dermatology
Counterfeits: An ugly truth in aesthetic medicine
Use of counterfeit injectables and medical devices may be more pervasive than most would expect.
FDA/CDC
FDA proposes new breast implant labeling with a boxed warning
Following a high-profile hearing in March 2019, and a textured breast implant recall in July, the FDA has proposed a boxed warning and other...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Body sculpting, microneedling show strong growth
Dermatologic surgeons performed 7% more cosmetic procedures in 2018 than in 2017.
Aesthetic Dermatology
Minimally invasive cosmetic surgery: Steady growth in 2018
OnabotulinumtoxinA injection continues to dominate the sector.