Laser-assisted blepharoplasty and inferior lateral retinaculum plication: skin contraction versus skin traction.

Blepharoplasty is one of the most commonly performed operations in plastic surgery, especially among middle-aged patients. Ablative lasers, especially the carbon dioxide laser, assist in tissue cutting and hemostasis. These lasers also offer skin resurfacing with its unique advantages despite the prolonged downtime.

Aesthetic reconstruction of the tuberous breast deformity.

The tuberous breast deformity is a rare entity affecting young women bilaterally or unilaterally. The deformity is characterized by a constricting ring at the base of the breast, which leads to deficient horizontal and vertical development of the breast with or without herniation of the breast parenchyma toward the nipple-areola complex and areola enlargement. Several methods have been put forward to correct the deformity, but most of these fail to address the issue of the constricting ring and subsequently yield results that are not aesthetically satisfactory.