Patient Reviews: Yelp, Google, Healthgrades, Vitals, and RealSelf.

Background: Online reviews play a significant role in influencing a patient's choice of a plastic surgeon. The purpose of this article is to help the practicing plastic surgeon understand reviews and review websites.

Methods: A review of both the medical literature and online blogs was performed to identify the most current information pertinent to plastic surgeons.

A randomized controlled trial of the embrace advanced scar therapy device to reduce incisional scar formation.

Background: Scarring represents a significant biomedical burden in clinical medicine. Mechanomodulation has been linked to scarring through inflammation, but until now a systematic approach to attenuate mechanical force and reduce scarring has not been possible.

Methods: The authors conducted a 12-month, prospective, open-label, randomized, multicenter clinical trial to evaluate abdominoplasty scar appearance following postoperative treatment with the embrace Advanced Scar Therapy device to reduce mechanical forces on healing surgical incisions.

Improving cutaneous scar formation by controlling the mechanical environment: large animal and phase I studies.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that the mechanical environment of cutaneous wounds can control scar formation.

Background: Mechanical forces have been recognized to modulate myriad biologic processes, but the role of physical force in scar formation remains unclear. Furthermore, the therapeutic benefits of offloading cutaneous wounds with a device have not been rigorously tested.