20th International Congress of Aesthetic Medicine – Milan – Italy

Because of curiosity, I have read what I wrote last year for this Congress, and it seemed to me a “copy and paste” of what happened this year. The titles of the reports have been changed, but not their number. I had to run from one classroom to the other to comply with all the commitments made. I performed one report on the first day and four relations and a workshop on the second. Not satisfied I also left the studio opened in the early hours of the day to attempt to reduce the long waiting l...
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67th National Congress of the Italian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Rome – Italy

Also this year a very brief touch-and-go at the National Congress of SICPRE. In a mixed session about the aesthetic surgery and laser therapy, I described our work on the non-surgical reduction of fat using cryolipolysis. The data and assessments are very clear as they were obtained by using photographic equipment in 3D. Dr. Marcello Innocenti (Florence) performed a rather nice report, in which he described his trans-oral method to detach the palpebral retaining ligaments. I was very proud of ...
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Annual Congress of the Israeli Society of Burns – Tel Aviv – Israel

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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