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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5th ISPLAD Meeting 2018 – Milan – Italy

The in charge of the laser of  ISPLAD (dr. Marina Romagnoli, dr. Elisabetta Perosino and dr. Pino Scarcella) invited me to participate in the 2018 edition of the annual ISPLAD congress. I was the first speaker of the day and I described my experience in the use of combination therapies (injectable + laser, combined laser rejuvenation protocol, photofractional and IPL + skinboosters) and the success that is possible to get in the rejuvenation of the face. After that, dr. Giovanni Salti continue...
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British Burn Association Annual Meeting 2018 – Swansea – United Kingdom

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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AMWC 2018 Meeting – Monte Carlo – Principality of Monaco

This year I repeated my experience of the previous year. I didn't attend the Сongress (which has a very interesting part that concerns the injectables but much less interesting part regarding the energy based devices) but I went to Monte Carlo for the symposium of Lutronic. This year, at Symposia L, were such relators as dr. Ali Kerim Diler, who has described his experience with the thulium laser LaseMD, and dr. Simon Lamquin, who has described his experience with the picosecond laser Picoplus...
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SCAR 2 – Tel Aviv – Israel

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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The 21st Congress SIES – Bologna – Italy

Also this year Fiera of Bologna has hosted the annual SIES Congress (the twenty-first edition). A short stop in Milan after the flight from Israel has separated me from this usual every-year commitment. During the first day, I described my experience in the combined treatment with non-ablative laser and skinboosters of the hands’ and facial aging. The second day I was a speaker two times at the session Aesthetic Medicine versus Surgery. I described the laser treatment of the eyelids with fract...
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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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IMCAS 2018 – Paris – France

This year in Paris was held the twentieth edition of IMCAS. I remember, there were not many members at the first editions and the speakers were almost exclusively European. This year, there were more than 8000 members, and, at least, a third part of the speakers came from non-European countries. I started my tour-de-force moderating a session organized by the Laser Groupe of the French Dermatology Society. A new format in which were presented 50 clinical cases and the faculty members were aske...
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