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01-12-2004 | Book Review
P.L. Tonnard, A.M. Verpaele: The MACS-Lift: Short Scar Thytidectomy
Quality Medical Publishing, St. Louis, 2004, 300 pp (ISBN 1-57626-191-3), $320 US
Author:
I. Jackson
Published in:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery
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Issue 6/2004
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Excerpt
Patrick Tonnard and Alexis Verpaele are to be congratulated on developing a concept which has simplified facial rejuvenation and, perhaps more important than that, they have increased safety in face lifting. They, together with some of their colleagues and with K. Berger of Quality Medical Publishing, have produced a beautiful and well-organized book on the minimal access cranial suspension lift (MACS) lift. The first chapter provides a concise but comprehensive history of face lifting from superficial methods to complex—and in some hands dangerous—methods. They then present their method based on safer and more logical principles. …