In this issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. David B. Hom and Deborah Watson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Reducing Risks in Surgical Facial Plastic Procedures. Despite the many benefits of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, unfavorable outcomes and complications can occur even among experienced surgeons. In this issue, top experts discuss common risks and adverse events that may occur from a variety of procedures and describe ways to help prevent, manage, and treat them. Contains 17 practice-oriented topics on reducing risks for poor surgical wound healing, facial scarring, local skin flap failure, rhinoplasty, mandible and midface fracture repair, rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, and more, as well as reducing legal risks and social media issues for cosmetic surgery. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on reducing risks in surgical facial plastic procedures, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

This issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. David Hom of the University of Cincinnati, is devoted to Facial Scar Management. Articles in this outstanding issue will focus on scar treatment of the forehead, periorbital region, cheek, nose, perioral and chin region, auricle region, scalp, neck, and oral mucosa. The issue will also address soft tissue management to minimize scarring, new scar treatments using lasers, and skin color and pigmentation in ethnic skin.

Beyond the skin as protective barrier, surgeons and dermatologists explore the science of skin as they work with it every day on patients and clients with aging skin, facial scars, deformities, skin cancer, sun damage, vascular lesions, and traumatic injuries. This compilation of topics in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics provides a primer on the basic science of skin, wound healing, exploration of genes, stem cells, and molecular science, along with direct clinical information related to surgery and medicine applicable in skin disorders, cosmetic procedures, and reconstructive procedures. Guest Editors David Hom and Adam Ingraffea lead a group of facial plastic surgeons and dermatologists who present an Overview of a specific skin problem, Therapeutic options, Clinical outcomes, Complications and sequela, along with a review of the most current literature to date on the subject of skin as is clinically and surgically relevant for dermatologists, facial plastic surgeons, plastic surgeons, and general practitioners.