J Stomatol Oral Maxillofac Surg
October 2022
Background: Acne is a common chronic inflammatory disease, which can result in permanent scarring. Different types of treatments have been used in order to treat acne scars. However, esthetic results have proved variable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIngrown nails come down to a conflict between the nail plate and the periungual tissue, causing pain, morbidity and impairment. The feet are mainly affected. The treatments are numerous: medical, podiatric, or surgical.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe estimated prevalence of tattooed individuals in Europe and in France is around 10%. The current "tattooed generation" was born mainly between 1975 and 1986, and according to a recent German study, the "typical tattooed" individual is a 30-year-old male or female with a mean tattooed area of 300 cm(2) or over in 61% of cases and more than one tattoo in 65% of cases. As this population gradually ages, physicians will be increasingly called on to treat tattooed areas, either for surgical removal of the tattoo itself or for excision of a suspect lesion or skin tumour, or for incision of the skin in a setting of either elective or emergency visceral surgery.
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