Journal Reviews

To use or not to use: absorbable sutures for facial wounds

1 May 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Absorbable, Cosmetic outcomes, Facial wounds, Non-absorbable, Suture material

This systematic literature review looked at studies comparing facial skin closure with absorbable versus non-absorbable sutures. Studies not published in English or looking at areas other than the head and neck, and studies focused on suture technique rather than material...

Prominauris: Which surgical technique to use?

1 September 2018 | | Anterior scoring, Complications, Evidence, Incisionless, Otoplasty, Posterior suturing, Prominent ear, Suture

Otoplasty accounted for 3.2% of all plastic surgical interventions, and 2.6% worldwide in 2015. Patient satisfaction ranges above 95% for prominent ear correction despite the myriad of available techniques in the literature associated with highly variable outcomes. The authors split...

Coupler microvascular anastomoses: how good?

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, Skull Base Surgery | Anastomosis, Computational modelling, Coupled, Coupler, Microvascular, Sutured

This paper is written by a group of reconstructive surgeons and a school of computing. The study used computational fluid dynamics to model blood flow through idealised sutured and coupled vessels, to investigate if differing anastomotic techniques affect intravascular blood...