abstract background & objectives: honey has been used as a nutraceutical in many traditional and ancient remedies. considering well documented benefits of honey to accelerate wound healing, for the first time we aimed to assess intra oral surgical wound healing process with honey. methods: we designed a pilot randomized placebo controlled cross-over clinical trial. patients who required bilater...

introduction: tooth pain and sensitization are the two main causes of discomfort after periodontal flap surgery. effects of low level laser therapy for reducing pain have already been established; these kinds of lasers have been used for tooth desensitization as well. this controlled blind study sought to compare tooth pain and sensitization after 660nm laser irradiation in a split mouth and al...

Received: October 04 2016; Accepted: October 26, 2016; Published: November 01, 2016 In recent years, plastic surgery has been gaining prominence and its techniques presenting important improvements. With the increasing number of plastic surgeries and the proliferation of information about them, we also noticed that is necessary to offer these patients in new ways to experience the postoperative...

BACKGROUND Principles of effective assessment have become increasingly popular topics in graduate medical education. Changes in the structure of plastic surgery training demand a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art in assessing surgical trainees. Moreover, the authors' understanding of different domains and methods of assessment and the available tools continues to grow. METHODS Th...

INTRODUCTION: Effective leaders are critically important to the success and stability of a surgical division. The selection of an appropriate candidate, therefore, involves multiple variables. Previous studies have investigated institutional factors that contribute to a successful candidate. The purpose of this study is to evaluate educational and research trends in academic plastic surgery ver...

BACKGROUND: We currently live a wide obesity epidemic. A large percentage of these obese individuals, particularly those who have failed to lose weight with diet and exercise and do not want to undergo bariatric surgery, or those undergoing bariatric surgery failed in weight loss are potential candidates performing plastic surgery. Plastic surgery in obese is a controversial issue because of a ...

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VOL. 52 NO. 4 NOVEMBER 2014 SAJS 105 Plastic surgeons are frequently cal led upon to provide definitive softtissue coverage for lower l imb defects associated with compound fractures of the tibia or fibula (Gustillo-Anderson IIIB). Usually defects of the upper and middle thirds of the leg are easily managed with either gastrocnemius myocutaneous flaps or hemi-soleus muscle coverage and skin gra...

Chair Campus Anatomy & Neurobiology Matthew Ennis, PhD Memphis Anesthesiology Robert M. Craft, MD Knoxville Anesthesiology R. Lebron Cooper, MD Memphis Clinical Medical Education Jordan R. Asher, MD (Interim) Memphis Comparative Medicine Timothy D. Mandrell, DVM Memphis Dermatology Tejesh Patel, MD (Interim) Memphis (Eff 7.1.2016) Emergency Medicine David C. Seaberg, MD Chattanooga Emergency Me...