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01-10-2017 | Innovative Techniques
The Anterior SMAS Approach for Facelifting and for Buccal Fat Pad Removal
Author:
Malcolm D. Paul
Published in:
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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Issue 5/2017
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Abstract
Having performed numerous varieties of SMAS advancement including: plication, resection, flap elevation with variable anterior deep dissection, the author has developed a direct approach to the mobile anterior SMAS which allows correction of midface descent, modest elevation of the modiolus, jawline correction, and, where indicated, direct access for buccal fat pad resection.
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