[Conservative treatment of facial wrinkles in the hands of the plastic surgeon].
The conservative treatment of facial wrinkles is an integral part of the growing market for aesthetic surgery. Unfortunately, physicians of any specialty and even nonphysicians tried to occupy this lucrative field without providing serious information and knowledge about a holistic plastic surgical concept, which includes second- and third-step aesthetic surgical procedures when conservative treatment does not suffice. The following article outlines and critically evaluates the current state of knowledge.
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D000180:Acrylic Resins; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D009465:Neuromuscular Agents; C016680:polyacrylamide gels; D006820:Hyaluronic Acid; D003094:Collagen; D019274:Botulinum Toxins, Type A