Plastic Surgery Key

Historic Background The desire to restore facial skin and improve one’s appearance is nothing new. The oldest recorded report of a peel to remove wrinkles is in the Ebers Papyrus…

Poets have extoled the beauty of women’s eyes in countless ways and over all of time. When we first meet someone and when we converse we look into the person’s…

Skin types and colors are divided into six phototypes, Fitzpatrick skin types I through VI, with I being the fairest, and VI being the darkest (▶ Table 5.1).2 Within a…

The East Asian Patient East Asia is a subregion of Asia that is made up of about 12% of the Asian continent including more than 1.5 billion people and one…

The history of dermabrasion dates back to 1550 BC when Egyptian physicians used alabaster and pumice to smooth scars and skin blemishes.1 They recognized that producing partial-thickness abrasion improved the…

Electromagnetic radiation is released by the flow of charged particles creating an oscillating electrical current. The RF spectrum falls within the 3 kHz to 300 GHz frequency range (▶ Fig….

Patient Demographics Patient selection and counseling are paramount to achieving optimal outcomes. Realistic expectations should be established and discussed with the patient before treatment. A full medical history should be…

In the last 5 years the Latino population seeking cosmetic treatments has substantially increased, and one of the main cosmetic concerns of this group is pigmentary disorders, with melasma being…

German dermatologist P. G. Unna first noted the use of trichloroacetic acid (TCA) in chemical peels as early as 1882,9 and it has been used in peeling for many years…

Fig. 35.1 “Doc, you’ll double your money before your patients even realize it doesn’t do much.” Intense pulsed light (IPL) and broadband infrared (BBIR) light devices apply very powerful pulses and…