Tension Reduction With Force Modulating Tissue Bridges Reduces Wounds in Breast Surgery.

Background: Tension on healing wounds increases the risk of dehiscence and poor or pathologic scar formation. Force modulating tissue bridges (FMTBs) represent a new class of wound closure and support devices designed to offload tension on healing wounds to improve wound healing and scar outcomes.

Objectives: The study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of FMTBs to reduce the risk of wound healing complications in elective breast surgery.

Superiorly Based Short-Scar Mastopexy Augmentation: A 10-Year Review of 1217 Consecutive Cases.

Background: Mastopexy augmentation is a challenging procedure, and a technique to create desirable, consistent, predictable results with a low rate of problems has not been well standardized. The inherent difficulty lies in competing surgical maneuvers. This study sought to evaluate the authors' experience and describe the key concepts and steps that allow safe, efficient, predictable results with low complication and long-term reoperation rates.

Multicenter Pivotal Study Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of a New Cellulite Procedure: Final Results at 12 Months.

Background: Safety and efficacy endpoints for the single-arm, multicenter, open-label pivotal study, CONtrolled Focal Fibrous Band Release Method (CONFFIRM) [NCT04743635] assessing targeted verifiable subcision (TVS) for the treatment of cellulite were met at 3 months postprocedure and have been published. Final, 12-month data describing durability of treatment effect and safety are presented here for the first time.

Objectives: The authors sought to evaluate safety and efficacy out to 12 months of initial treatment for a single TVS procedure performed employing the Avéli device (Revelle Aesthetics, Inc.

Preserving the Legitimacy of Board Certification.

Objectives: The aims of this discussion were to inform the medical community about the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery's ongoing attempts in Louisiana to achieve equivalency to American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) member boards so that its diplomates may use the term "board certified" in advertising and to ensure public safety by upholding the standards for medical board certification.

Background: In 2011, Louisiana passed a truth in medical advertising law, which was intended to protect the public by prohibiting the use of the term "board certified" by improperly credentialed physicians. An American Board of Cosmetic Surgery diplomate petitioned the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to approve a rule that would establish a pathway to equivalency for non-ABMS member boards, whose diplomates have not completed training approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in the specialty they are certifying.