Given the lack of formal education on plastic surgery services during the preclinical years of medical school, many medical students commonly misunderstand the breadth and depth of the field. Shadowin...
The recent introduction of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)-4 has demonstrated the potential to be a superior version of ChatGPT-3.5. According to many, GPT-4 is seen as a more reliable and cr...
In conjugation with our prior manuscript, we wanted to determine if GPT-4 could be exploited as an instrument for plastic surgery graduate medical education by evaluating its performance on the Plasti...
Sample assessment questions from the 2022 PSITE were obtained from the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons website and manually inputted into GPT-4. Responses by GPT-4 were qualified using t...
From a total of 242 questions, GPT-4 provided correct answers for 187, resulting in a 77.3% accuracy rate. Logical reasoning was utilized in 95.0% of questions, internal information in 98.3%, and exte...
GPT-4 has shown to be more accurate and reliable for plastic surgery resident education when compared to GPT-3.5. Users should look to utilize the tool to enhance their educational curriculum. Those w...
To explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-picture system, DALL·E 2 was used to generated clinical photographs for medical and plastic surgery education. Generic English text...
Physicians from the Mediterranean civilization were profoundly instrumental in the early development and contemporary advancement of the craniomaxillofacial field. These feats are scarcely studied or ...
A literature review on the subject was performed using PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Mayo Clinic Libraries....
Mediterranean medicine has recognized and managed craniomaxillofacial pathologies from as early as the 10th century. The first inscriptions were authored by Abu Alkasem al-Zahrawi and Serefeddin Sabun...
This essay highlights some important historical contributions to the fields of craniomaxillofacial and facial plastic surgery by pioneer surgeons from around the Mediterranean....
Patents are of great importance to plastic surgery, a field fueled by constant innovation. Familiarity with the patent process could promote further innovation by plastic surgeons. By granting proprie...
Numerous studies in the medical and surgical literature have discussed the income gap between male and female physicians, but none has adequately accounted for the disparity....
This study was performed to determine whether gender-related billing and coding differences may be related to the income gap. A 10 percent minimum difference was set a priori as statistically signific...
Significant differences were found between male and female surgeons in work relative value units billed, work relative value units billed per case, and the numbers of major cases performed. The averag...
The authors' findings support the hypothesis that billing and coding practices can, in part, account for income differences between male and female plastic surgeons. Potential explanations include pra...
obesity is one of the most common diseases worldwide, and the most effective treatment to it is the bariatric surgery. One of the negative impacts of this procedure is the body dysmorphia caused by ov...
in Brazilian Health System database, a search for the post-bariatric procedures performed between 2007 to 2021 was done. The variables analyzed were geographic location, year, mean days of hospitaliza...
a total of 12,717 plastic surgery procedures in post bariatric patients were done, with a national prevalence of 13.8%. Dermolipectomy was the most performed procedure, with 6,719. The years of 2020 a...
Brazil had a significant number of body contouring surgery, however with a low prevalence. Dermoliepctomy was the most common procedure performed. We could notice a significant impact of COVID pandemi...
Non-surgical services are an important part of many facial plastic surgery practices and can improve patient satisfaction as well as bring new patients to the practice. An aesthetician can help to pre...
Titanium mesh cranioplasty is the most common strategy for the repair of skull defects. However, as the frequency of cranioplasty increases, the incidence of titanium mesh exposure following craniopla...
Patients with titanium mesh exposure following cranioplasty were retrospectively selected from January 2016 to August 2021. Titanium mesh exposure was corrected with reconstructive plastic surgery, in...
This study included 21 patients with titanium mesh exposure with surgical site infection and a variant of scalp deformity. The age of the patients ranged from 18 to 74 years, with the mean age being 5...
Reconstructive plastic surgery can facilitate wound healing at the titanium mesh exposure site following cranioplasty. However, an individualized treatment strategy is required for each patient, and c...
The efficacy of virtual visits in converting new patients into established patients undergoing surgical treatment has not been demonstrated. The aim of this study was to evaluate patient retention and...
An IRB-approved retrospective review of all new plastic surgery patients seen between May and August 2020 at a single institution was conducted. The initial encounter type, chief complaint, demographi...
In total, the records of 1889 new patients were reviewed (1635 in-person, 254 virtual). Virtual patients were younger (44.5 ± 19.0 versus 49.5 ± 20.7 years, p < 0.001), and nearly half resided greater...
Telemedicine provides an opportunity to increase the practice catchment area and is as effective as in-person first encounters for establishing care and transition to surgery....
