A free ‘app’ for plastic surgery: the smartphone spirit level
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BACKGROUND Symmetry is one of the criteria of achieving a good aesthetic result. Realising this can be difficult. Attempts have been made to try and measure this symmetry using advanced and complex methods.1 For most surgeons on a daily basis the only practical way to measure symmetry is to use a simple measuring tool such as a measuring tape. However, this method is not very reliable as it depends on the patient being in a totally straight position, the measuring tape being accurate to 1mm and the tape not moving when comparing both sides.
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Technology to the rescue.
I wholeheartedly agree with the Letter to the Editor by Dr. Arthur W. Perry, Dr. Michael Sosin, and Ms. Meredith Perry in the September 2011 issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal.1 In their correspondence, the authors recommend applying a “spirit level,” as used by engineers, to confirm symmetric and level markings for nipples. I would like to make an additional suggestion: many “smartphones” have...
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