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This new text helps facial plastic surgery fellows and advanced residents in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery find the answers they’re looking for when preparing to take the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery exam. Covering core content relevant to the ABFPRS board exam, this guide emphasizes key facts and clinical pearls essential to exam success and includes hypothetical exam questions and relevant surgical and clinical images. Written by a leader in the field and the Director for the facial plastic surgery fellowship program at the University of California Irvine, this book discusses everything from basic techniques and evidence-based medicine, to fillers, injectables, implants and the psychological aspects of plastic surgery. Additionally, the chapter layout and organization of the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Study Guide allows the reader to focus on just those topics relevant to the board exam, making it a must-have for anyone preparing to take the exam.

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Covers core content relevant to the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery exam

Emphasizes key facts and clinical pearls essential to exam success

Includes hypothetical exam questions

Includes relevant surgical and clinical images

Written for facial plastic surgery fellows and advanced residents in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery

Contents:

1. Analgesia & Conscious Sedation.- 2. Basic Techniques.- 3. Blepharoplasty.- 4. Browplasty.- 5. Cheiloplasty.- 6. Chemical Peels.- 7. Cleft Lip & Palate.- 8. Craniofacial Anomalies.- 9. Evidence Based Medicine.- 10. Facial Paralysis & Reanimation.- 11. Fillers, Injectables & Implants.- 12. Flaps & Grafts.- 13. General Head & Neck.- 14. Genioplasty/Mandibular Procedures.- 15. Hair Restoration.- 16. Information Technologies in FPS.- 17. Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery.- 18. Legal, Ethical & Socioeconomic Issues in PS.- 19. Liposuction.- 20. Mohs’ Surgery.- 21. Neoplasia & Reconstruction.- 22. Otoplasty.- 23. Psychological Aspects of Plastic Surgery.- 24. Rhinoplasty.- 25. Rhytidectomy.- 26. Scar Revision & Dermabrasion.- 27. Trauma.- 28. Vascular Lesions.

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ISBN-13: 9783319180342
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing)
Publication date: April, 2016
Pages: 300
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Subcategories: General, Plastic/Reconstructive & Aesthetic

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Dr. Wong is Professor and Vice-Chairman of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine with his lab at the Beckman Laser Institute in Irvine. Dr. Wong received his degrees from the University of Southern California (BSBME), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Amsterdam (PhD), along with an additional year at Oxford University (Wolfson College) as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. His residency and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship were completed at UC Irvine, where he has remained on faculty. He has published over 80 peer reviewed publications, is on the editorial board of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and Lasers in Medical Science, and performs editorial review for ten other journals. He is also a Springer editor with his book, Biomedical Optics in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery: Principles and Practices scheduled to publish in 2015. Additionally, Dr. Wong is the Director for the facial plastic surgery fellowship program. His clinical expertise is on rhinoplasty, vascular malformations, and trauma reconstruction. His clinical research is on facial beauty, ethnic rhinoplasty, and revision rhinoplasty. He is a team doctor for the UC Irvine athletic teams handling maxillo-facial trauma and serves in a similar capacity for Concordia University and other local schools. He currently supervises four post-doctoral fellows, a research specialist, and numerous graduate students, residents, medical students, and undergrads in his labs.

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