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Aesthetic Surgery
Aesthetic Surgery After Forty
Forty is an important turning point in people's lives.
29 July 20233 min read
Hand Surgery
We Have Aesthetic Procedures for Our Faces, But What About Our Hands?
Although aging is an unstoppable process, today the aesthetic losses created by aging can be corrected to a large extent with the possibilities offered by aesthetic surgery.
12 September 20221 min read
Academic
Our Publication Was Selected as the Best Scientific Publication of 2016 in Its Field
Among the articles I have published on this blog, one of the most read is the second article I published on the blog, titled “ On 30 December 2015 I received perhaps the most meaningful gift of the year…
12 September 20221 min read
Body Aesthetics
Morbid Obesity and Aesthetic Surgery
In today's conditions, because people consume more and move less, fatness, or by its newly popularised name obesity, has now reached a level that threatens public health…
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Which Incision Should Be Preferred When Placing Breast Implants?
Recently, with reference to two international articles containing points to be considered in the placement of breast implants, the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic…
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Being Aware of Breast Cancer
Throughout November, many activities were held to raise breast cancer awareness.
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Is there a relationship between breast lift surgery and breast cancer?
The breast lift procedure has no connection whatsoever with breast cancer.
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Does breast augmentation leave a scar?
Every operation leaves a scar on the body. However, breast augmentation can be counted among the procedures with the least scarring.
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Do Aesthetic Breast Operations Correct Breast Asymmetry?
An important point to consider when examining our patients who present for breast surgery is whether or not there is breast asymmetry.
12 September 20221 min read
Breast Aesthetics
Frequently Asked Questions About Breast Augmentation
The most frequently asked question about breast implants concerns whether these implants will rupture under pressure.
12 September 20221 min read
Reconstructive Surgery
Can Craniosynostoses Be Genetically Transmitted?
Half of syndromic craniosynostosis cases, especially those caused by chromosomal anomalies, show hereditary (familial) transmission.
12 September 20221 min read
Reconstructive Surgery
Have the Factors That Cause Craniosynostosis Been Identified?
The factors that cause craniosynostosis are teratogenic agents (aminopterin, dilantin, retinoic acid, valproic acid, etc.), shunt operations performed for hydrocephalus,…
12 September 20221 min read
Reconstructive Surgery
Congenital Giant Hairy Nevi
Congenital giant nevi, as the name suggests, are when a newborn baby is born with a dark-coloured mole that can be considered very large relative to its body.
12 September 20221 min read
Patient Guide
Do You Love Coffee?
The other day an article titled “Does coffee prolong life?” spread rapidly on social media. I believe Dr.
12 September 20221 min read
Patient Guide
How Much Can You Trust Information on the Internet?
Some people believe that everything they see and read on the internet is true. Unfortunately, this observation also applies to patients seeking a cure for their troubles.
12 September 20222 min read
Facial Aesthetics
Is There a Solution for Under-Eye Bags?
The eyes are perhaps the most important aesthetic feature of the human face. Not only their shape or colour but also the expression in the gaze determines the beauty of the eyes.
12 September 20222 min read
Facial Aesthetics
How long does aesthetic eyelid surgery take?
If the upper eyelids alone are to be done, local anaesthesia may be sufficient and it takes about 45 minutes.
12 September 20221 min read
Aesthetic Surgery
Is Aesthetic Surgery an Art?
The surgical branches of medicine are, without exception, branches in which the basic techniques developed by the masters before us are learned at the end of a difficult training process.
12 September 20222 min read
Patient Guide
Which Technique Is Better in Aesthetic Operations?
Why are there different methods in plastic and aesthetic surgery operations? Why do surgeons use different techniques even though the operations have the same name?
12 September 20221 min read
Hand Surgery
The Importance of Physical Therapy in Hand Surgery
Hand surgery is an important subspecialty of surgery.
12 September 20222 min read
Reconstructive Surgery
Is the Treatment of Deformational Plagiocephaly Different from Synostotic Plagiocephaly?
Although deformities due to synostotic plagiocephaly can only be corrected with surgical intervention, deformational plagiocephalies noticed especially at early ages…
12 September 20221 min read
Facial Aesthetics
Facial Aesthetics Achieved Through Jaw and Dental Surgery
Today, in many areas of both medicine and dentistry, attempts are made to make medical interventions attractive by using the word AESTHETIC.
12 September 20221 min read
Facial Aesthetics
Is Blepharochalasis Surgery an Aesthetic Eyelid Operation?
Blepharochalasis is atrophy, loosening and sagging of the eyelid skin as a result of recurrent, painless attacks of oedema in the eyelid skin.
12 September 20221 min read
Facial Aesthetics
How Happy Can a Tooth Make a Person?
On Saturday, since his school was also closed for the weekend, my patient, now 8 years old, whose cleft lip I repaired when he was 3 months old, came for a check-up with his family.
12 September 20221 min read
Aesthetic Surgery
What Is the Place of the Golden Ratio (Golden Mean, Divine Proportion) in Aesthetic Surgery?
It is not known exactly when the golden ratio, which has existed in mathematics and nature since time immemorial, was discovered and began to be used by humans. Euclid (B.C.
12 September 20222 min read

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