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[BACKGROUND] Reduction mammaplasty is a common surgical procedure in France. Even if the French surgeons were pioneers in this surgery's development, we ignored French plastics surgeons' practices in this domain at this time. The aim of thi…

[INTRODUCTION] Breast augmentation is one of the most frequently performed cosmetic surgeries in the world. However, there is no standardized surgical procedure for performing breast augmentation. Many modalities exist for this surgery whic…

[BACKGROUND] Smoking induces complications in plastic surgery, in particular wound healing delays. Despite a 4-weeks' abstinence asking before and after surgery, some patients denied or hid their consumption. The aim of this study was to ev…

[BACKGROUND] Obesity is one of the health issues that is recently worldwide increasing, as well as in France. Variety of procedures of bariatric surgery have been developed over the past decade and are performed for morbid obesity hence. Th…

[PURPOSE OF THE STUDY] More than the first scar present from the birth, the umbilicus is the original and fundamental element, which characterizes the abdomen. It can be analyzed under various aspects: symbolic, artistic, anatomical and mor…

[BACKGROUND] Breast augmentation is one of the most frequent intervention in plastic surgery. In March 2010, the Afssaps has withdrawn from the market all the Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) silicone implants, the authors report a retrospectiv…