Lifting of soft tissues: old philosophy, new approach – A method of internal stitching (APTOS NEEDLE)
MA Sulamanidze, TG Paikidze, GM Sulamanidze · Aktuelle Dermatologie · 2004 · Heft 10
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Zusammenfassung
Carrying out aesthetic operations aimed at lifting soft tissues (face lift – classic or endoscopic, mastopexy, etc.) envisages moving subcutaneous soft tissues to a new, aesthetically more advantageous, higher position, and stitching them with noose sutures. The same aim is pursued by the method APTOS THREAD – a method allowing of lifting soft tissues by means of specially designed threads provided with microscopic angle-wise projections. While the former is used only in an open operational wound, making it possible to achieve stable, long-term outcomes, the latter is minimally invasive, to be performed with no…