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Consensus Meeting Guidelines, Laser Treatment, Dermatology – Milan – Italy

Posted on by Matteo Tretti Clementoni
Finally, a small event with the aim of creating something valuable. The halls of the San Raffaele Hospital, in Milan, have hosted the first Consensus Meeting with the aim of developing the guidelines related to laser therapy in dermatology. There were covered such topics: simple lentigo, psoriasis, melasma, scars, rosacea, and vascular anomalies. Each session was opened with a review of the literature, which was followed by a report on the diagnosis and/or non-laser therapy, then, moving on to...
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British Burn Association Annual Meeting 2018 – Swansea – United Kingdom

Posted on by Matteo Tretti Clementoni
It was a great honour for me to have been invited to the annual congress of the British Burn Association by Mr. Jeremy Yarrow. There I introduced my experience in the treatment of severe burn scars with an ultrapulsed CO2 laser. It is not very easy to get to Swansea (first a flight from Milan to London, and then 4 hours by car), but the university campus at Swansea University, where the event took place, was worth of this journey. The Swansea University Bay Campus is located close to the ocean...
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SCAR 2 – Tel Aviv – Israel

Posted on by Matteo Tretti Clementoni
It was the best Congress on scars I have ever attended. A star Faculty met for the second time (the first was last year) to describe and share a personal experience on the treatment and prevention of scars. It would be too long to describe every single relationship but the Congress ranged from basic research to the therapy, surgical and laser. Gerd Gauglitz (Munich – Germany), Ardeshir Bayat (London – United Kingdom) and Geoffrey Gurtner (Stanford – California, USA) have described initially th...
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Annual Congress of the Israeli Society of Burns – Tel Aviv – Israel

Posted on by Matteo Tretti Clementoni
When the past comes back. I was a student in medicine (more than twenty years ago) and I was attending the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna when I met a young student like me. His name was Josef Haik. Now he is Director of the Plastic Surgery Department of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv and this year he invited me to present my experience in the use of ultrapulsed CO2 laser in the treatment of burn scars. In an informal ambiance, I have heard wonderf...
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