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Restraint helps avoid filler pitfalls
As physicians increasingly use injectable fillers and botulinum toxin as complementary treatments for facial rejuvenation, success depends on educating patients thoroughly and injecting products cautiously.
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Patients participate in their own surgeries
His patients rarely report pain. Dr. Saadat helps to ensure their comfort by giving them juice and bathroom breaks throughout longer procedures.
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Tumescent local anesthesia today: Has it been misused?
With all the debate concerning measures needed to guard patient safety, experts say tumescent local anesthesia deserves a second look. Since the method was developed 20 years ago, it remains a gold standard, but modifications may have resulted in its misuse, according to dermatologist Jeffrey Klein, developer of the tumescent anesthesia method and associate clinical professor of dermatology, University of California, Irvine.
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Fibroblast growth factor improves wound healing
Wound bed preparation and surgical reconstruction of acute, intensive wounds can be improved with the use of artificial skin substitute and bFGF application prior to skin grafting, according to Sadanori Akita, M.D., Ph.D., senior assistant professor in the department of plastic surgery at Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, Japan.
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