The Cutting Edge 2014

Marking its 34th year, The Cutting Edge 2014 continues the tradition of providing progressive aesthetic plastic surgery education.

Course chairmen Dr Sherrell J. Aston and Dr Daniel C. Baker have assembled an outstanding faculty of renowned experts who are recognized worldwide as the innovators and developers of the most advanced techniques for face and body contouring.

The Cutting Edge 2014 is a uniquely designed innovative program, featuring 94 highly instructive surgical videos. The videos will be edited to highlight the key steps of advanced techniques for face and body contouring. Attendees will be able to see the hands-on work of an international faculty of world-renowned experts.

The videos will demonstrate:

• Donor site harvesting, preparation, and injection techniques for facial rejuvenation and large-volume fat grafting for body rejuvenation and contouring.
• Periorbital sculpting and rejuvenation with fillers, fat, and surgical techniques.
• Perioral sculpting and rejuvenation with surgical techniques and neuromodulators.
• Shaping of the face, including fat grafting, incisions, and surgical techniques, as well as Hyaluronic acids and neuromodulators.
• Neck-correction procedures necessary for creating an aesthetically pleasing neck.
• Procedures for sculpting of the breast, including preoperative breast evaluation and implant selection, augmentation techniques, correction of secondary breast deformities, and mastopexy.
• Contouring the breast using knife and needle, and fat grafting techniques without breast implants.
• Surgical sculpting of the abdomen, including the most advanced sculptural techniques for liposuction and fat grafting.
• Advanced body contouring procedures for arms, calves, ankles, the back, flanks, love handles, and the anterior, posterior, and lateral thighs.
• Buttock contouring, including preoperative planning, fat grafting, and implant techniques for males and females.

The symposium will open with a Keynote Video by an internationally recognized authority addressing the current and future use of autologous fat grafts and stem cell biology. Eleven panels will debate the shown methods of facial and body sculpting and rejuvenation, comparing the complexity of procedures, technical details, complications, and patient safety issues. An open forum with the faculty will permit audience participation, questions, and discussion.