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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery presents free access to selected premium content and important articles. This content is FREE for all visitors. In addition to the content below, all Viewpoints, Letters and Announcements are always offered for free. (All PRS Content is copyrighted by the ASPS, unless otherwise noted.)

Monthly Free Articles: 

• Infection following Implant-Based Reconstruction in 1952 Consecutive Breast Reconstructions: Salvage Rates and Predictors of Success  (Free from May 29 - June 10)
• 215 Mandible Fractures in 120 Children: Demographics, Treatment, Outcomes, and Early Growth Data (Free from June 11 - 20)
• The Role of Silicone Granulomas in Recurrent Capsular Contracture: A Review of the Literature and an Approach to Management (Free from June 21 - 30)
  

Free Videos:

• Basic Suturing for Medical Students
• Cleft Lip Nasal Deformity
• Neck Lift- Part 1: Pre-operative Evaluation
• Lipoabdominoplasty- The Role of Limited Skin Undermining in Combination with Liposuction for Abdominal Wall Shaping
• Rhinoplasty
• Video Discussion Collection: The Complete Collection of all PRS Expert Video Discussions

Free Supplements:

• PSRC 2013 Abstract Supplement

Long Term Free Content

• Evidence-Based Medicine: "How-to" Articles
• The Nobler Angels of Our Nature: A Tribute to Joseph E. Murray, M.D., 1919 to 2012 

From June 2013 (Free from May 29 - August 1)

• Jaw in a Day: Total Maxillofacial Reconstruction Using Digital Technology
• Are Systemic Antibiotics Indicated in Aesthetic Breast Surgery? A Systematic Review of the Literature
• Nonfatal Sport-Related Craniofacial Fractures: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Demographic Data in the Pediatric Population
• The Role of Gene Therapy in Regenerative Surgery: Updated Insights

From May 2013 (Free from April 30 - July 1)

• 440 Consecutive Immediate, Implant-Based, Single-Surgeon Breast Reconstructions in 281 Patients: A Comparison of Early Outcomes and Costs between SurgiMend Fetal Bovine and AlloDerm Human Cadaveric Acellular Dermal Matrices
• The Contribution of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors to Female Alopecia: A Study of Identical Twins
• Social Media Use and Impact on Plastic Surgery Practice
• Prospective Outcome Study of 225 Cases of Breast Augmentation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery presents free access to selected premium content and important articles. This content is FREE for all visitors. In addition to the content below, all Viewpoints, Letters and Announcements are always offered for free. (All PRS Content is copyrighted by the ASPS, unless otherwise noted.)

Monthly Free Articles: 

• Infection following Implant-Based Reconstruction in 1952 Consecutive Breast Reconstructions: Salvage Rates and Predictors of Success  (Free from May 29 - June 10)
• 215 Mandible Fractures in 120 Children: Demographics, Treatment, Outcomes, and Early Growth Data (Free from June 11 - 20)
• The Role of Silicone Granulomas in Recurrent Capsular Contracture: A Review of the Literature and an Approach to Management (Free from June 21 - 30)
  

Free Videos:

• Basic Suturing for Medical Students
• Cleft Lip Nasal Deformity
• Neck Lift- Part 1: Pre-operative Evaluation
• Lipoabdominoplasty- The Role of Limited Skin Undermining in Combination with Liposuction for Abdominal Wall Shaping
• Rhinoplasty
• Video Discussion Collection: The Complete Collection of all PRS Expert Video Discussions

Free Supplements:

• PSRC 2013 Abstract Supplement

Long Term Free Content

• Evidence-Based Medicine: "How-to" Articles
• The Nobler Angels of Our Nature: A Tribute to Joseph E. Murray, M.D., 1919 to 2012 

From June 2013 (Free from May 29 - August 1)

• Jaw in a Day: Total Maxillofacial Reconstruction Using Digital Technology
• Are Systemic Antibiotics Indicated in Aesthetic Breast Surgery? A Systematic Review of the Literature
• Nonfatal Sport-Related Craniofacial Fractures: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Demographic Data in the Pediatric Population
• The Role of Gene Therapy in Regenerative Surgery: Updated Insights

From May 2013 (Free from April 30 - July 1)

• 440 Consecutive Immediate, Implant-Based, Single-Surgeon Breast Reconstructions in 281 Patients: A Comparison of Early Outcomes and Costs between SurgiMend Fetal Bovine and AlloDerm Human Cadaveric Acellular Dermal Matrices
• The Contribution of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors to Female Alopecia: A Study of Identical Twins
• Social Media Use and Impact on Plastic Surgery Practice
• Prospective Outcome Study of 225 Cases of Breast Augmentation

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The Best of Ivo Pitanguy

In honor of the new partnership between Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Brazil's Revista de Brasileira de Cirugia Plastica, we proudly present an exclusive collection: "The Best of Ivo Pitanguy."

Read ten pivotal PRS papers from Pitanguy and watch his 2012 keynote Baker Gordon Lecture, "A 50-year Perspective in Body Contouring Surgery." This collection, which spans a half-century of ground breaking Plastic Surgery, is presented for free to all readers.

"Explantation- Augmentation Mastopexy- Part 2. A Surgical Video by Dennis C. Hammond, MD from the 44th Annual Baker Gordon Symposium on Cosmetic Surgery"

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• Reconstructive
• Hand/Peripheral Nerve
• Pediatric/Craniofacial
• Cosmetic
• CME
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July

• Treatment of Capsular Contracture Using Complete Implant Coverage by Acellular Dermal Matrix: A Novel Technique
• Known Preoperative Deep Venous Thrombosis and/or Pulmonary Embolus- To Flap or Not to Flap the Severely Injured Extremity?
• Surgical Anatomy of the Middle Premasseter Space and its Application in SubSMAS Facelift Surgery
• The Incidence of Vitamin, Mineral, Herbal, and Other Supplement Use in Facial Cosmetic Patients

  August

• Comparison of Harvest and Processing Techniques for Fat Grafting and Adipose Stem Cell Isolation
• To Drain or Not to Drain? Evidence-based Value of Subcutaneous Surgical Wound Drainage: The Largest Systematic Review and Meta-analyses
• Subglandular Breast Augmentation with Textured, Anatomic, Cohesive Silicone Implants: A Review of 440 Consecutive Patients
• Is Craniofacial Asymmetry Progressive in Untreated Congenital Muscular Torticollis?
  

July

• A Practical Guide to Free Tissue Transfer

August

• The Best of Eyelid Reconstruction