title: Prefabrication and prelamination applications in current aesthetic facial reconstruction.
abstract: Prefabrication and prelamination techniques can offer significant advantage in aesthetic facial reconstruction. Specifically, they can be applied to expand the recruitment and assembly of optimal tissues for better approximation of aesthetic ideals. Some of their unique abilities are presented, and their advantages, limitations, and technical pointers are provided. The place for prelamination and prefabrication in the burgeoning era of composite tissue transplantation is addressed. Some of the relevant features and interdependencies among these procedures as they relate to aesthetic facial reconstruction are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Jon A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mathy
authors.forename: Julian J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pribaz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D055815:Young Adult