Vision Loss and Blindness Following Fillers.

Facial aging associated with volume loss can be addressed with soft tissue fillers. This minimally invasive technique has quickly gained popularity and is commonly performed in many outpatient settings. The composition of injectable dermal fillers includes marketed hyaluronic acid, calcium hydroxyapatite, polylactic acid, silicone and polymethylmethacrylate.

Social media in ophthalmology: An analysis of use in the professional sphere.

To characterize how ophthalmologists are using social media in their practice. A survey regarding ophthalmologists' personal and professional use of social media was distributed online through a university alumni listserv. Data collection occurred over 4 weeks from January to February 2020.

Medium depth peels.

Medium depth chemical peels offer an excellent tool for skin rejuvenation. The improvement in rhytids, dyschromias, and photodamage with relatively little downtime confirms its importance in the facial plastic armamentarium.

Pigmented conjunctival neoplasms.

Pigmented lesions of the conjunctiva are not rare. They may be acquired, congenital, benign or malignant. In the present paper, the author provides a brief review, in a non-exhaustive manner, of the common melanocytic pigmentations, with more emphasis on the malignant and pre-malignant variants.

A balloon-assisted facialplasty technique.

An ongoing goal of aesthetic surgery is a reduction in complications and an improvement in reproducibility and speed. Balloon dissector devices have been used in other areas of surgery to achieve these goals. This report presents early clinical experience using a balloon dissector to elevate the skin flap in facialplasty.

Erbium:YAG laser skin resurfacing: preliminary clinical evaluation.

Each of the increasing number of resurfacing lasers uses a unique strategy to produce tissue ablation. Erbium:YAG (Er:YAG) lasers have been used in other applications for precise tissue removal with little thermal effect. Recovery time, duration of erythema, and clinical improvement were evaluated using an Er:YAG resurfacing laser (2.

Multifocal adult rhabdomyomas of the head and neck.

Rhabdomyomas are usually found in the myocardium. Of the extracardiac sites, the head and neck is the most frequent region where this rare tumor arises. Multifocal head and neck lesions have only been described in 11 cases.