International Confederation of Societies of Plastic Surgery Trainees: Connecting and Empowering Plastic Surgery Trainees Worldwide

The International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies.

Social Networking and Plastic Surgery Education: Running International Plastic Surgery

Dear Editor: Social networking has become an integral part of everyday life with an increasing number of hours spent per day interacting online with both familiar and unfamiliar people. Geographic boundaries have changed and communication costs have decreased drastically. Today, we can interact with others with a simple click, and smartphone technology has made these interactions not only globa...

Plastic Surgery: An International Journal

A key step in the inverted T-scar pattern breast reduction technique is the preoperative marking of the medial skin incision which will ultimately become the medial aspect of the horizontal scar in the new inframammary fold. We describe the ‘cleavage imprinting’ technique that allows the surgeon to generate mirrorimage medial imprint marks on the contralateral breast during preoperative marking...

Plastic Surgery: An International Journal

Studies of psychological outcomes of cosmetic surgery generally provide low standards of evidence due to significant methodological limitations and few studies have explored the outcomes of surgery types other than breast reduction or have compared post-operative outcomes for different surgery types. This study therefore aimed to explore the psychological outcomes and post-operative satisfactio...

Telemedicine and Plastic Surgery in India