Effects of mechanical forces on the formation of cutaneous wounds during skin expansion and emerging therapies for wound healing and scar prevention.

Objectives: To update a possible role of cosmeceutical topic treatment to obtain a better scar.

Methods: This is a preliminary supportive study. A total of 14 patients who went to the General Hospital of Mexico City, Mexico, between May and December 2020, for breast reconstruction were included in the current study.

Thigh and buttock lift after massive weight loss.

Background: Surgical and medical treatment of obesity involves a significant loss of weight (30-90 kg) during a short time (12-24 months). The technical procedures for treatment of skin excess on the thigh create scars on the posterior buttock fold and the inguinal fold. Since 1999, the authors have used a heart-shaped incision for buttock thigh lifts.

Brachioplasty after massive weight loss: a simple algorithm for surgical plane.

After massive weight loss, patients experience a severe skin laxity of the arms with or without associated fat deposits. More than 20 years elapsed after the first aesthetic brachioplasty in 1954 before this problem was addressed with significant technical innovation. The current brachioplasty techniques are somewhat unpredictable and commonly associated with significant untoward results and complications including misplaced, widened, or hypertrophic scars as well as contour deformities resulting from overcorrection centrally and underresection.

Orbitofacial cleft number 5: radiographic, anatomical, and histologic study of a 24-week-old fetus.

Background: Orbitofacial clefts are caused by a congenital absence of midfacial tissues between the eye and the upper lip just medial to the corner of the mouth. As a whole, facial clefts occur with an incidence of 1.43 to 4.

Torsoplasty after important weight loss.

Weight loss exceeding 40 kg frequently causes excess skin on the lateral and posterior chest wall. Other authors have suggested surgical dissection of the excess skin using horizontal incision or, alternatively, using a vertical incision positioned in the axillary region. This procedure is incomplete and does not correct the skin ptosis in the subaxillary lateral chest wall.