Ross A. Clevens, M.D., M.P.H., FACS is recognized as an international lecturer and innovator in facial plastic surgery know for his dedication to redefining the patient experience. He created and refined the Laser-Assisted Weekend Necklift to deliver patients a more accurate and desirable outcome while affording a smoother recovery. His discoveries, studies and publications of the benefits that Platelet Healing Gels have proven to alleviate discomfort and speed healing after surgery. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is another way in which Dr. Clevens has succeeded in innovating the facial plastics industry and improved patient outcomes. With this book, Dr. Clevens is able to share his expertise with his lifelong target audience - the patients - more directly, efficiently and intimately than in his international lecture circuits. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is divided into eight chapters, or steps, to provide you, the reader, a sequential and descriptive understanding of the entire process you will experience in becoming a patient. You will learn many of the psychological, emotional, social and physical factors that influence your decision-making process. You will learn about Platelet Healing Gels and the Laser-Assisted Weekend Necklift - Dr. Clevens' groundbreaking contributions to his profession - along with the latest and expected upcoming innovations in the field based upon Dr. Clevens' ongoing research. You will learn insightful knowledge and time-tested tips to facilitate your preparation and to organize your expectations. You will learn how to contribute to realizing your aesthetic desires well before you lay on the operating table. In fact, you will realize that you can contribute to realizing your beauty goals before meeting the surgeon in the initial consultation. Open the book to uncover where your journey begins. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is simultaneously an encyclopedia, a how-to booklet, an insider report and a diary. Replete with actual before-and-after photos from one of the nation's most successful practices, Your Plastic Surgery Companion includes dozens of anecdotes from a practicing facial plastic surgeon veteran, respected by his peers across the globe. Testimonials allow readers to hear from patients who have been there, done that and felt those emotions along each of their own unique personal facial plastic journeys. The book's eight steps include: The Knowledge Builder, The Specialist Advantage, The Preparation and Reassurance Program, The Tailor Made Surgical Experience, The Nurturing Process, The Image Maximizer and Considering the Most Common Surgical Options. Read the Epilogue, "A Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts with a Single Step" to find insight and logic related to all aspects of the human experience and the transformative growth we make to our real selves. Your Plastic Surgery Companion contains Appendix, Glossary and Index sections so that you can quickly find information that you need to know before plastic surgery. The Notes sections at the end of each chapter allows you to bring this book along your journey to remind yourself of important tips, thoughts, experiences and personal notes.

About the Book This book describes the ups and downs of a surgeon’s experience with cancer, a gifted surgeon dedicated to improving people’s lives. This story will be helpful to any person dealing with cancer and its treatment. Paul W. Gidley, MD Professor, Otology-Neurotology Department of Head and Neck Surgery UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Author of Temporal Bone Cancer ...an inspiring personal chronicle recounting the cancer journeys of an extraordinary plastic surgeon, Dr. Ernest Cronin, and his wife, Candy, as they battled the "Fiend" in a courageous and determined fashion with unwavering faith and tremendous family support. - Donald R. Collins, Jr., MD, FACS Plastic Surgeon, Clinical Assistant Professor Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Cronin chronicles the personal journey that he has taken... he demonstrates that victory over cancer is not ringing a bell, but continuing to live a fulfilling life. - Dr. Terence Holmes, Medical Internist. Dr. Ernest Cronin...truly has shown that you can have a meaningful life while living with cancer. - Jenny Morrow FNP-C Oncology Nurse Practitioner ...an easy-to-read yet very detailed account of a successful plastic surgeon ...and his personal journey against cancer. Dr. Ernest Cronin expresses the human condition well in his descriptions of how he went about tolerating therapy...for other cancer patients who wish to obtain a perspective of how life is while in the midst of the treatment process. - Devish Pandya M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Weill Cornell Medical College, Medical Oncologist, Oncology Consultants ... an excellent portrayal of the journey it took to build a beautiful Camjelot-coupled with an intense battle against a formidable fiend that all feat, cancer. - John Anderson, M.D. Ophthalmologist ...a window into the life and battles of an outstanding plastic surgeon and his family. It is extremely well written and gives the reader a glimpse of how faith, family, and passion can help heal in times of illness and need... a journey both motivating and inspiring. - George Golod, M.D. University of Texas Physicians.

This manual is a quick and handy reference of practical plastic surgical tips and techniques for medical professionals without advanced surgical training. Practitioners in a variety of settings will find useful information on effective treatment for commonly encountered injuries and problems to optimize patient outcomes.

Written by experts from London’s renowned Royal Free Hospital, Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery offers a comprehensive overview of the vast topic of reconstructive plastic surgery and its various subspecialties for introductory plastic surgery and surgical science courses. The book comprises five sections covering the fundamental principles of plastic surgery, cancer, burns and trauma, paediatric plastic surgery and aesthetic surgery, and covers the breadth of knowledge that students need to further their career in this exciting field. Additional coverage of areas in which reconstructive surgery techniques are called upon includes abdominal wall reconstruction, ear reconstruction and genital reconstruction. A chapter on aesthetic surgery includes facial aesthetic surgery and blepharoplasty, aesthetic breast surgery, body contouring and the evolution of hair transplantation.The broad scope of this volume and attention to often neglected specialisms such as military plastic surgery make this a unique contribution to the field. Heavily illustrated throughout, Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of this exciting field. This book was produced as part of JISC's Institution as e-Textbook Publisher project. Find out more at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/institution-as-e-textbook-publisher

A highly successful plastic surgeon embraces shamanic healing techniques and helps her patients experience true beauty and ecstasy. • The author has been featured by Healthy Living magazine as one of the top 19 holistic healers for the millennium. • Shows readers how to embody the spiritual within the physical to shapeshift their lives on all levels. • Both an exceptional personal journey and an extraordinary exploration of the nature of real healing. As a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and the first non-Quechua woman to be initiated into the Circle of Yachaks (bird-people shamans of the Andes), Dr. Eve Bruce sees herself as an agent of change in both worlds. After traveling to Central and South America to study indigenous healing techniques, Bruce realized that although our culture is obsessed with narrowly defined standards of physical beauty, we actually devalue the physical because we separate it from the spiritual. She saw that her plastic surgery patients who felt ashamed of their "vanity" had the least successful outcomes. Those ready for change on emotional and spiritual levels were able to use the physical "shapeshift" provided by the surgeon's knife to transform their entire lives. By integrating the two healing modalities of surgeon and shaman, Bruce is able to help people shapeshift into newfound health on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual. Because she bore her first child at sixteen, rose to the challenges of single motherhood, and worked her way through medical school, Bruce learned early to redirect the flow of her life, turning apparent obstacles into opportunities. As a powerful example of the human capacity for self-transformation, Bruce is uniquely qualified to inspire readers to redirect their own lives to places of beauty and self-acceptance.