A comprehensive screening, education, and training tool for the psychological assessment of patients seeking aesthetic surgery: "DESIRABLE OP?".

Patients may seek aesthetic surgery for many reasons. They may present with expectations for both the surgical outcome and the impact that their changed appearance will have on their lives. The desire for an aesthetic procedure is usually driven by increased levels of self-consciousness.

Comparison of 1- and 2-knot, 4-strand, double-modified kessler tendon repairs in a porcine model.

Purpose: To compare 1- and 2-knot, 4-strand, double-modified Kessler tendon repairs. It was our hypothesis that a 1-knot technique using an unbraided suture material would be stronger if it is possible for some movement to occur between strands on loading, redistributing forces such that the load is equally shared.

Methods: Fifty-six porcine flexor tendons were allocated to either a 1- or 2-knot, 4-strand, double-modified Kessler repair, and tested by incremental cyclical loading in vitro.