Techniques in cosmetic surgery can enhance thyroid surgery results

Wednesday July 11, 2007 | Posted in: Plastic Surgery Procedures
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Techniques in cosmetic surgery can also be used to enhance the results of other types of surgical procedures. Cosmetic surgery usually employs a method wherein patients sit or stand while the cosmetic surgeon marks the incision site. This particular way of marking the incision can improve the aesthetic result of a thyroid surgery since the incisions are made to blend into the natural lines of the body.

Researchers are quite thrilled at this discovery. Base-of-the-neck incisions are quite challenging so this type of development is a welcome change.

Dr. David Terris, a pioneer in minimally invasive techniques, has this to say:

"We have found that while keeping the management of the underlying thyroid problem as the first priority, we can still achieve a maximal cosmetic result,"

Dr. Terris used the knowledge and expertise he learned in facial surgery to improve the results of thyroid surgeries. He did a prospective analysis of 248 patients who required varying approaches to thyroid surgery, from a standard, several-inch-long neck incision to remove huge thyroids to minimally invasive techniques that cut the incision size in half to endoscopic approaches that reduce incision size half again.

All patients sat up to have their incision sites marked. "You want the incision to be in a location that corresponds to a cosmetically favorable area when you are upright at a dinner party, not stretched out on an operating room table," says Dr. Terris.
Other cosmetic surgery techniques applied in a thyroid surgery in order to produce amazing results include trimming traumatized edges at the incision sites, using surgical glues instead of sutures, minimizing trauma to surrounding skin, and minimizing use of drains.

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