APTOS SPRING – A new concept of lifting
MA Sulamanidze, TG Paikidze, GM Sulamanidze · Aktuelle Dermatologie · 2004 · Heft 10
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Zusammenfassung
The operation of rhitidoplasty is known not to allow carrying out an effective lifting of soft tissues of those facial areas that are maximally remote from the cut line, as well as those being in the zone of active action of the masticatory and mimic muscles. The APTOS THREAD method is not used on these areas, for the permanent muscular movement leads to destruction of the threads' cogs in the immediate postoperative period, with the resulting outcome being of short duration. To solve this problem, we have devised a new thread called APTOS SPRING which after being inserted subcutaneously is capable of stretching…