The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has released the 2023 ASPS Procedural Statistics, which showed a 5 percent rise in plastic surgeries and a 7 percent rise in minimally invasive procedures compared to the previous year.
Diabetic patients, once considered risky for any type of surgical procedure, are now more freely able to pursue any number of elective procedures without fear or doubt. With advancements in blood glucose monitoring and well-established relationships between surgeons and primary care teams, they are now better able to set themselves up for success both pre- and post-surgery.
Most plastic surgery procedures cause some scarring. Patients often determine the success of their surgery by how visible the scars are. Scarring is inevitable with surgery, but there are many different ways to make them less noticeable.
"It's okay for a surgeon to take a 360-degree view of your body and your face and give you some options, but the goal should really be to focus on what you came in for and what is concerning you, and at least start there."
A "fine-tuned" artificial intelligence (AI) tool shows promise for objective evaluation of patients with facial palsy, reports an experimental study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
