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Background: Minimally invasive surgery is already at the forefront in all surgical specialties, including cosmetic surgery. Hence, we have adapted and modified our technique to offer a short-scar facelift with...
Background: Polydioxanone (PDO) thread is commonly used as a skin rejuvenation material in the field of cosmetic medicine. Its usefulness in the aged eye area was described previously, but, to...
Background: Augmentation rhinoplasty has been one of the most common cosmetic procedures in Asian population. Silicone is the most widely used nasal augmentation material in Asia. However, in the past...
Background: Sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is the complicated procedure as it has a very high risk of complications. The loss of clitoris is the ones. Accordingly, surgeons should carefully consider...
Mandibuloplasty is an increasingly popular procedure among East Asians, because they perceive a wide lower face as a sign of stubbornness and coarseness in personality. Especially for females, such a...
A 45-year old female patient developed progressive nose swelling and tenderness after undergoing non-surgical rhinoplasty using polydioxanone threads. Surgical drainage procedure of the nose was done. Intra-operative findings revealed abscess...
Background: The traditional transaxillary approach of submuscular implant breast augmentation is accompanied by severe pain, heavy bleeding, and many side effects. This subglandular mammary augmentation with aqua dissection (SMAAD) is...
Background: Traditional subciliary incision lower blepharoplasty (TSILB) is commonly used for improving aged lower eyelid. Fat grafting has been popularly performed to correct shortcomings of TSILB such as infraorbital hollowness...
Background: The success rates of conjunctiva-Müller muscle resection vary in reports of previous studies, with 81% to 88.6% success rates having been reported in other countries. Few studies have reported...
Chronic venous disease of lower extremities is a common vascular problem. The method for ambulatory selective varicose vein ablation, under local anesthesia (ASVAL) without saphenous vein ablation, is based on...