HOT TOPICS

Breast

  • The longevity of breast implants: myths and reality
  • Ribbling: change implant and add size or just add fat?
  • The phenomenon of sliding boobs, implant malpositioning and its correction
  • What is the impact of implant surfaces when it comes to selection?
  • Ruptured implant: emergency? How to deal with silicone loaded lymph nodes?
  • How to manage severe capsular contracture
  • Management of implant cases with permanent seroma or infection
  • Correction of animation deformity
  • Control of a round nipple/ areola complex
  • Management of „implant ex cases“: immediate pexy, immediate fat grafting, wait and see?

Body Contouring

The GLP-1 Body – Ready for Surgery or Still a Moving Target?

  • Weight stability and optimal timing of surgery
  • Sarcopenia, protein depletion and micronutrient deficiencies
  • Impaired wound healing and fragile tissue quality
  • Should GLP-1 therapy be continued or paused perioperatively?
  • Single-stage versus staged body reconstruction

High Definition, High Problem – Revision after Modern Liposculpture

  • Overetched anatomy, contour irregularities and excessive fat removal
  • Adhesions and hyperinflammatory fibrosis
  • Burns and fat necrosis after ultrasound, RF and plasmaassisted procedures
  • Scar release, fat grafting, excision or staged revision?

Buttock SOS – Fat, Filler and Fatal Risk

  • Ultrasound-guided gluteal fat grafting
  • Prevention and emergency management of fat embolism
  • Contour deformities and volume loss after BBL
  • Liquid BBL, PMMA, silicone and unknown biopolymers
  • Removal, debridement and staged reconstruction

Abdominoplasty and Body Lift Rescue – From Wound Breakdown to Systemic Crisis

  • Umbilical and abdominal flap ischemia: observe or revise early?
  • Wound dehiscence, tissue necrosis and chronic seroma
  • Debridement, negative-pressure wound therapy and secondary reconstruction
  • VTE, blood loss and complications of combined “mommy makeover” procedures
  • Atypical infections and nontuberculous mycobacteria following medical tourism

Rhinoplasty

  • Is preservation superior to structural concepts?
  • When is conchal cartilage preferable to rib in reconstruction of the lower framework?
  • How to reconstruct the overresected LLC
  • How to reconstruct the overresected septum
  • Old versus new concepts in saddle nose reconstruction
  • SEGs – different modifications to stabilize the tip position
  • Rib grafts – an essential tool in secondary rhinoplasty

Eyelids and Periorbital Region

Round Eye Rescue – Three Lamellae, One Algorithm

  • Anterior versus posterior lamellar shortening
  • Retractor scarring, horizontal laxity and tarsal distortion with a memory effect
  • Scar release, canthoplasty, midface support or spacer graft?
  • Tarsotomy and grey-line rotation for refractory deformities

Too High, Too Low, Wrong Curve – Upper Eyelid Revision

  • Unrecognized and iatrogenic ptosis
  • Overcorrection, contour abnormalities and asymmetry
  • Hering’s law and brow compensation
  • Early adjustment, observation or delayed revision?

The Hollowed and Overfilled Orbit – Volume Complications Around the Eye

  • A-frame deformity and orbital skeletonization
  • Fat repositioning, microfat, structural fat or dermis-fat grafting
  • Persistent periorbital hyaluronic acid, chronic edema and migration
  • Ultrasound, MRI, hyaluronidase or surgical removal?

The Eye at Risk – Dry Eye, Exposure and Vision-Threatening Emergencies

  • Meibomian gland dysfunction, dry eye and neuropathic pain after blepharoplasty
  • Lagophthalmos and exposure keratopathy
  • Orbital compartment syndrome: canthotomy and cantholysis
  • Filler-induced retinal vascular occlusion
  • Thermal injury following RF, laser and plasma treatments

Face

Deep Plane after Deep Plane – The Revision Facelift

  • Safe re-entry: the same plane or an alternative dissection plane?
  • Scarred SMAS and altered facial nerve anatomy
  • Pixie ear, traction deformities, lateral sweep and early recurrence
  • Facial nerve palsy: observe, map or explore early?

The Hostile Plane – Facelift after RF, HIFU, Threads and Biostimulators

  • Preoperative recognition of fibrosis, fat atrophy and tissue adhesions
  • Which dissection plane remains safe?
  • Compromised vascularity and the increased risk of skin necrosis
  • Staged revision, scar release and secondary volume restoration

Below the Platysma – Deep Neck Lift SOS

  • Persistent subplatysmal fullness and recurrent platysmal bands
  • Cobra neck and the overskeletonized neck
  • Marginal mandibular nerve palsy and complications involving the digastric muscles or submandibular glands
  • Hematoma, sialocele and salivary fistula: an acute rescue algorithm

Volume Gone Wrong – Filler Disaster, the GLP-1 Face and Buccal Fat Regret

  • Acute filler-induced vascular occlusion
  • Chronic overfilled face, migration, malar edema and granulomas
  • Imaging and surgical removal of permanent fillers
  • Reconstruction of the deflated GLP-1 face and post–buccal fat removal hollowing