RESUMO
In this article the authors discuss and analyze technological devices also known as energy-based devices and their use in skin rejuvenation, facial contouring, skin tightening, and other applications in facial plastic surgery. Energy has been applied in some form to tissue since the beginning of recorded history. The practice of applying heat to tissue with the use of cauters was used for thousands of years as an invaluable method of controlling hemorrhage. Continuous improvement of methods for using the beneficial effects of heat on tissue eventually led to the development of the basic concepts of electrosurgery we know today.
Assuntos
Técnicas Cosméticas/instrumentação , Rejuvenescimento , Cirurgia Plástica/instrumentação , Cirurgia Plástica/organização & administração , Análise Custo-Benefício , Equipamentos e Provisões/economia , Humanos , Lipectomia/instrumentação , Ritidoplastia/instrumentação , Ritidoplastia/métodos , Envelhecimento da Pele , Cirurgia Plástica/economiaRESUMO
Technology impacts the lives of everyone nowadays and has had perhaps a greater impact on the lives of facial plastic surgeons and the patients they seek to help with both surgery and procedures. This article will discuss modern technology's impact on intervening in the aging process including technology used for facial and skin rejuvenation and reconstruction concentrating on the techniques and care to minimize complications as well as dealing with complication from the treatments.