title: 20-year experience with the Conrad modification of the Freer elevator as a pull-in suture introducer.
abstract: A modified Freer elevator was created to aid the safe placement of alloplasts in a subcutaneous dissection pocket. We believe that this innovation represents a better way to insert nonrigid facial alloplasts and grafts and that it contributes to the reduced technique-related complications of migration, kinking, and asymmetry; it also minimizes tissue trauma and unnecessary surgical explorations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. cory.torgerson@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Cory
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Torgerson
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Conrad
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D015361:Rhytidoplasty / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013997:Time Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous