Facial aesthetic surgery aims to restore or improve facial harmony by addressing specific concerns and enhancing desirable features. This article explores the importance of in our perception beauty attractiveness, highlighting impact it has on an individual's self-esteem confidence. Common surgical procedures such as rhinoplasty, genioplasty, blepharoplasty, facelifts, lip augmentation are disc...

background: the technique of vertical dome division or tip defining, involves incising the lateral crura and vestibular skin at or lateral to the dome or tip defining point. the incision di-vides the lower lateral cartilage into a lateral segment and a medial segment, which are advanced anteriorly and sutured together to increase tip projection. the present study aimed at assessing a new vertic...

M EDICINE, AND surgery in particular, is trending toward less invasive procedures, reduced morbidities, and quicker recovery times. Cholecystectomies that used to be performed through a large abdominal incision and required a 7-day hospital stay are now done laparoscopically, which allows patients to be home by that evening. As simpler, less invasive, more effective treatments have been develop...

BACKGROUND Rhinoplasty has traditionally been preferred for correction of nasal defects. Long-term clinical experience with hyaluronic acid (HA) injection as an alternative or complement to rhinoplasty is presented. METHODS A retrospective review of the author's clinical experience with HA gel for nasal reshaping from 1997 to 2012 was conducted, with treatments performed during 1998, 2005, an...

BACKGROUND There is a growing concern in the field of aesthetic surgery about the need to measure patients' expectations preoperatively. The present study was designed to develop and validate the Expectations of Aesthetic Rhinoplasty Scale (EARS), and to compare expectations between rhinoplasty patients with and without body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). METHODS In total, 162 college students an...

BACKGROUND Edema and ecchymosis are common complications of rhinoplasty. Modifications to osteotomy may reduce edema and ecchymosis and ameliorate postoperative discomfort in patients who undergo rhinoplasty. OBJECTIVES The authors performed osteotomy with conventional instruments or with an ultrasonic device and compared these methods with respect to the severities of ecchymosis and edema in...