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The purpose of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is
to provide a forum for the rapid publication of original articles
dealing with techniques advancing the art of aesthetic plastic
surgery.
Although many of these articles will describe
surgical craftsmanship per se others will deal with complications
in surgical procedures and methods by which to treat or avoid
them.
"Second thoughts" about long established techniques,
which should or might be abandoned, modified, or improved, as
well as symposia devoted to the controversies arising from the
use of one particular technique vs. another and the lessons to
be learned from these dialogues will be included. Individual or
isolated case histories, which may add to the specialty's increasing
fund of knowledge and its advancement; improvements in surgical
instruments, pharmaceuticals, and operating room equipment of
use to the aesthetic plastic surgeon; and discussions of ancillary
problems in aesthetic plastic surgery, such as the role of psychosocial
factors in the doctor-patient and the patient-public interrelationships,
are all to be presented.
The role of preventive medicine and genetic
counseling in averting some of the conditions that ultimately
require aesthetic surgical correction, as well as certain factors
that influence the patient's and surgeon's aesthetic judgement
in relation to the overall appearance of a body feature, and the
importance of physical anthropology in understanding the patient's
ethnic requirements for a particular type of surgical procedure
will be discussed.
The history of the development and continuing
growth of aesthetic plastic surgery and the attitudes of "society"
and "the public" concerning the "justification" for the use of
aesthetic plastic surgery will be dealt with. Perhaps most importantly,
papers and reports are to be published discussing the increasing
role of aesthetic plastic surgery as the final step in the overall
rehabilitation of patients undergoing longstanding and tedious
reconstructive surgery for the repair of congenital, acquired,
accidental and neoplastic defects.
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