Summary:
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is a comprehensive and practical guide to performing facial surgical procedures, and contains a balance of aesthetic and reconstructive procedures that mirrors typical European practice.

It has arisen as an initiative of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS), and in accordance with this status is a comprehensive book that gives a complete update on the speciality as it is practised in Europe. The contributors have many years of clinical practice as well as research experience in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.

The book's practical 'how-to' style is amply supported with excellent line illustrations and colour photographs, and serves as a comprehensive reference for surgeons in clinical practice as well as in training. Each chapter is structured within a uniform framework to increase the accessibility of the text, and in this way improves the book’s utility as a textbook for trainees.

• The first book of its kind with strong European orientation - linked to the expanding European Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Practical 'how to do it' approach with excellent line illustrations and colour photos
• Appropriate mix of reconstructive and aesthetic procedures

Table of Contents:
Part I: BASIC PRINCIPLES
Patient counselling and selection
Medico-legal aspects
Computers and photography
Facial prototyping and transformation techniques and their applications in perception research
Biomaterials
Ethics
Part II: THE AGEING FACE
The ageing forehead
Superior blepharoplasty
Eyelid ptosis
Lower-eyelid rejuvenation
Midface enhancement
Facelift
Rejuvenation of the ageing neck
Chemical peels, dermabrasion and laser skin resurfacing
Soft-tissue augmentation with injectable fillers and implants
Botolinum toxin A: treatment of hyperfunctional facial lines
Hair replacement surgery
Part III: RHINOPLASTY
Shaping and positioning of the nasal tip
Nasal dorsal management
Septal reconstruction
Nasal valve surgery
Management of the deviated asymmetric nose
Revision rhinoplasty
Cleft-lip rhinoplasty
Management of nasal septal perforations
Mentoplasty
Part IV: OTHER SURGICAL REPAIRS
Otoplasty
Auricular reconstruction
Microtia repair
Part V: RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Cutaneous malignancies of the head and neck
Mohs’ micrographic surgery
Forehead, temple and scalp reconstruction
Eyelid reconstruction
Nasal reconstruction
Cheek reconstruction
Lip reconstruction
Tissue expansion in the head and neck area
Revascularized free tissue transfer for facial defects
Facial trauma
Scar revision
Primary cleft lip repair
Facial palsy diagnosis and management
Aesthetic maxillomandibular surgery

About the Author(s):
H.D. Vuyk is Consultant in Facial Plastic Reconstructive Surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology & Facial Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Gooi-Noord Hospital, Blaricum, The Netherlands
P.J.F.M. Lohuis is Consultant in Facial Plastic Reconstructive Surgery and Head and Neck Surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery of the Academic Medical Center, and the Department of Head and Neck Oncology and Surgery of the Netherland Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Contributors:
Austria - 1, Finland - 1, France - 3, Germany - 7, Greece - 1, Italy - 2, Netherlands - 4, Norway - 2, Spain - 1, Switzerland - 1, UK - 3

Readership:
Core: Otorhinolaryngologists, and Head & Neck Surgeons. Secondary: Plastic Surgeons, Maxillofacial Surgeons, Dermatologists, Ophthalmologists.

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