Congratulations to Mark B. Constantian, M.D., F.A.C.S. on receiving the Clinician of the Year award from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons at its Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 12, 2015. The American Association of Plastic Surgeons is the oldest plastic surgical organization in the world, founded in 1921. Approximately 10% of the […]
Read MoreWith no septum available, a rib graft is the best alternative The woman I wrote about last time had a very good outcome. I opened her scarred airways and placed “composite” grafts of cartilage and skin from one of her ears into the gaps to replace the lining that previous surgeons had removed, so now […]
Read MoreI was just thinking a few weeks ago that the badly scarred-shut airways I used to see are so uncommon now, compared to 2 decades ago. Most surgeons are getting more careful, and they have taken rhinoplasty learning very seriously. That point was brought home by a woman whom I just scheduled for surgery. Her […]
Read MoreTwo years ago, a good friend brought her father to see me about terrible facial pain called trigeminal neuralgia. The pain had been unresponsive to all medications, and he was so miserable that he could not leave his house and had lost interest in everything that used to give him pleasure. He had been advised […]
Read MoreLast week I operated on a 40 year old man referred by a very conscientious dermatologist who had been trying to explain why the patient had a draining spot on his nasal tip that never healed. The area repeatedly became inflamed, healed, and became inflamed again. Biopsies had all been normal. There are only three […]
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