The business of attaining and retaining beauty is an enigmatic and lucrative one,
conspicuously lacking in scientific rigor despite attempts otherwise. We all know facial …

Loco-regional flaps have been widely used for the reconstruction of digital injuries without
requiring microvascular anastomosis, however, they result in scarring and compromised …

Rhinoplasty is one of the most popular facial aesthetic procedures but also one of the most
technically challenging, with revision rates after surgical rhinoplasty ranging from 5% to …

Objectives Health care providers frequently issue a verbal warning before venipuncture.
Communications that induce negative expectations in patients can lead to the “nocebo” …

Rudyard Kipling's observation that “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”,
speaks of a reckless abandon that may not be historic. Skin cancer rates are rising across all …

We are seeing a paradigm shift in cultural perceptions of aesthetic plastic surgery. The
popularity of nonsurgical facial treatments has been steadily increasing and is now in higher …

We describe five technical notes to facilitate rapid elevation of the anterolateral thigh flap for
extremity reconstruction. We highlight the advantages of (1) a lateral approach;(2) …

A 91-year-old man was admitted having been found unresponsive in his bed. He was
previously well, but had sustained a laceration over the dorsum of his forearm after a recent …

Piezoelectric “ultrasound” rhinoplasty has been rapidly growing in popularity. In a market
where> 200,000 surgical rhinoplasties are performed annually in the United States, 1 there …

I read the above article by Ngaage et al 1 with interest. Inflation appears a ubiquitous feature
of our times, affecting both authorship and publishing houses' profits. In 2022, Elsevier, the …