Superficial Nasal Filler Injections-How I do It.

Nasal enhancement is one of the most challenging and intriguing of aesthetic procedures. Although the nose is the most central and prominent facial feature, it should not be dominant while maintaining both a harmonious relationship with the face and its own intrinsic beauty. In this article, the first author shares his experience on how to specifically apply intradermal soft-tissue fillers (for particular indications) in nasal enhancement and incorporates patient assessment, anatomy of the nose, and injection techniques to provide guidance.

Novel spiking methods developed for anion exchange chromatography operating in a continuous process.

Many manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals are moving from batch to continuous processing. While this approach offers advantages over batch processing, demonstration of viral clearance for continuous processes is challenging. Fluctuating output from a continuous process chromatography column results in a nonhomogeneous load for the subsequent column and must be considered when designing viral clearance studies.

Effective Rejuvenation with Hyaluronic Acid Fillers: Current Advanced Concepts.

Learning Objectives: After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Process several patient-specific factors before reaching an optimal treatment strategy with appreciation for facial balance. 2.

BeautiPHIcation™: a global approach to facial beauty.

The recent availability of safe volumizing fillers has provided cosmetic physicians with the tools necessary to contour facial features non-surgically and cost-effectively. This review focuses on outlining objective parameters necessary for creating a template to maximize each individual's facial beauty. Phi relationships can be approached for all facial features and rely on the establishment of smooth ogee curves in all dimensions.

Diabetes and the socioeconomic and built environment: geovisualization of disease prevalence and potential contextual associations using ring maps.

Background: Efforts to stem the diabetes epidemic in the United States and other countries must take into account a complex array of individual, social, economic, and built environmental factors. Increasingly, scientists use information visualization tools to "make sense" of large multivariate data sets. Recently, ring map visualization has been explored as a means of depicting spatially referenced, multivariate data in a single information graphic.