Artistic shaping of key facial features in children and adolescents.
Facial aesthetics can be enhanced by otoplasty, rhinoplasty and genioplasty. Excellent outcomes can be obtained given appropriate timing, patient selection, preoperative planning, and artistic sculpting of the region with the appropriate surgical technique. Choosing a patient with mature psychological, developmental, and anatomic features that are amenable to treatment in the pediatric population can be challenging, yet rewarding.
Sullivan
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Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02905, USA. cosmetic@drsullivan.com
Singer
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D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D004954:Esthetics; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept