Autologous fat transfer with in-situ mediation (AIM): a novel and compliant method of adult mesenchymal stem cell therapy.

Background: In an attempt to engineer a regulatory compliant form of cell assisted lipotransfer in the U.S., the authors developed Autologous Fat Transfer with In-situ Mediation (AIM) for reconstruction of a refractory surgical scar.

Isolated neck-lifting procedure: isolated stork lift.

Background: Many patients desire cosmetic improvement of neck laxity when consulting with a plastic surgeon about their face. Neck laxity and loss of the cervicomental angle can be due to multiple components of aging such as skin quality/elasticity, loss of platysma muscle tone, and submental fat accumulation. Traditionally, the procedure of choice for patients with an aging lower face and neck is a cervicofacial rhytidectomy.

The post-adjustable gastric band abdominoplasty.

Serious complications associated with post-laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) abdominoplasty have been reported in the medical literature. Furthermore, others have noted aesthetic problems with closure of the umbilicus due to apparatus port proximity. Currently, no clinical protocol or formal industry guidance for LAGB apparatus management during abdominoplasty is available in the medical literature.

Clinical use of Dieletrophoresis separation for live Adipose derived stem cells.

Background: Microelectrode dieletrophoresis capture of live cells has been explored in animal and cellular models ex-vivo. Currently, there is no clinical data available regarding the safety and efficacy of dielectrophoresis (DEP) buffers and microcurrent manipulation in humans, despite copious pre-clinical studies suggesting its safety. The purpose of this study was to determine if DEP isolation of SVF using minimal manipulation methods is safe and efficacious for use in humans using the hand lipotransfer model.

Small incision preperiosteal midface lift for correction of lower eyelid retraction.

Purpose: Postblepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction is often due to scarring of the middle lamellae and/or vertical shortening of the anterior lamellae. Traditional reconstructive techniques involve a transconjunctival incision combined with a spacer graft. Other techniques involve a subperiosteal midface dissection or limited preperiosteal dissection.

"The stork lift": a circumoccipital extended neck-lift.

Background: The goal of the lower face- and neck-lift is restoration of a sharp cervicomental angle. However, standard cervical rhytidectomy for the patient with extensive excess skin of the neck often leaves the patient with objectionable vertical or diagonal skin folds of the lateral neck, a large hair-step deformity, or both. To remove extensive excess skin of the neck and to avoid vertical/diagonal folds and a stepped hairline, the authors "walk" the excess skin posteriorly along the hairline, often from ear to ear along the inferior posterior hairline.

Biplanar temple lift for lateral brow ptosis: comparison with uniplanar dissection technique.

Background: The amount of lift achievable in the temple region has been limited by traditional uniplanar dissection techniques. A biplanar temple-lifting technique (BTL), involving a biplanar dissection both deep and superficial to the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) of the temporal region, is described. This study compares the amount of temporal lifting that can be achieved using a uniplanar dissection with that achieved using a biplanar dissection.