ON AL CON TR INT ATI IBUTION ERN Facial Surgery Special Topic Aesthetic Surgery Journal 31(8) 863–873 © 2011 The American Society for Avoiding Complications With Aptos Sutures Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc. Reprints and permission:...
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ON AL CON TR INT ATI IBUTION ERN Facial Surgery Special Topic Aesthetic Surgery Journal 31(8) 863–873 © 2011 The American Society for Avoiding Complications With Aptos Sutures Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc. Reprints and permission: http://www.sagepub.com/ journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1090820X11422700 www.aestheticsurgeryjournal.com Marlen Sulamanidze, MD, PhD; George Sulamanidze, MD, PhD; Ivan Vozdvizhensky, MD, PhD; and Constantin Sulamanidze, MD Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/31/8/863/232687 by guest on 07 August 2020 Abstract Background: Over the past decade, several methods of minimally-invasive thread-mediated lifting have been widely adopted in aesthetic surgery. Early use of these methods met with great enthusiasm, and threadlifting was often performed without sufficient regard for proper indications, controls, or outcomes. Soon after, reports of early-relapse ptosis, complications, and other undesirable side effects began to appear in the litera
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