Main description:

Practitioners of aesthetic medicine and surgery already have a series of textbooks instructing on how to treat the standard patient. Unfortunately, they also have patients who do not conform to the average-those who are of a different age, or sex, ethnicity, or medical history, or who have special social requirements.

Aesthetic Rejuvenation Challenges and Solutions: A World Perspective pools the expertise of top aesthetic practitioners who look at those complicated areas that tend to be ignored in the more standard textbooks and provides advice on managing these areas of special challenge that arise in clinical practice.

The book contains extensive material on "non-standard" and "non-textbook" patients. It discusses how to evaluate these patients, and when to decide that a patient is not suited for a particular procedure. It discusses the treatment of patients of different ethnic groups, and provides guidance on how to manage patient expectations and deal with dissatisfied patients.

Contents:

Evaluating the aesthetic patient. Patients with unrealistic expectations. Deciding whom to perform a procedure on, which procedure, and how to say "no". Minimal recovery procedures. Patients who only want natural, nonoperated-appearing results. Cosmetic concerns and therapeutic considerations in ethnic skin. The aging face in a multiethnic world. Hispanic facial plastic surgery. Aesthetic rejuvenation for Asian patients. Aesthetic rejuvenation in Indian or Pakistani patients. Aesthetic rejuvenation for patients of Middle Eastern descent. Blepharoplasty for Asian patients. Aesthetic eyelid surgery in different ethnic groups. Ethnic rhinoplasty in patients of African descent. Rhinoplasty in patients of Hispanic descent.