Chair(s)
Dr. Benjamin ASCHER
Plastic Surgeon
France
Prof. Sebastian COTOFANA
Anatomist
United States
Session objectives
A 1-day program:
• Morning: anatomy lectures and videos
• Afternoon: live dissection and techniques on cadaver - face, neck, décolleté́, hands - and danger zones, in small groups , with a rotation every 30’
Educational Objectives:
> Combination of fresh cadaver dissections, hands on, as well as live demonstrations on basic and advanced techniques
> Focus on levels, zones, and plans for technical practice purposes
• Facial Ageing
• Facial safe zones
• Facial layers
• Muscles
• Fatty tissues (super cial and deep fat compartments)
• Relation with bone and dermo-epidermic level
• Dangers zones, mainly the facial artery and veins systems and nerves
For each post:
> First step: the instructor performs the dissection of the dedicated location on one hemiface. Then, dissection is performed by the attendees on the other hemiface and neck.
> Second step: each participant injects in that respective region under supervision and guidance of an expert
Welcome coffee and introduction
Anatomy behind toxin injections
Anatomy behind facial volumizing
Anatomy of the dangers zones (for toxin and filler injections)
Dissection in amphitheatre with clinical correlations
Anatomy workstation 1: Ultrasound guided injections
Anatomy workstation 2: Toxin treatments of upper face (unrestricted educational grant from Ipsen)
Anatomy workstation 4: Filler treatments of upper face (temple, forehead, orbit, with retrobulbar) (unrestricted educational grant from Laboratoires Vivacy)
Anatomy workstation 3: Toxin treatments of mid, lower face and neck
Anatomy workstation 5: Filler treatment of middle & lower face (unrestricted educational grant from Laboratoires Vivacy)
Anatomy workstation 6: Treatments of Non-facial regions (hand & decollete, arms)
Coffee and discussion: Needles vs Cannulas, Male vs Female
Recommended sessions
S169, S170 - Rheological and biophysical properties of fillers
S041 - Minimally invasive aesthetic treatments: Eastern Europe update
S004 - Cadaver workshop: temple & forehead injections
S161 - Toxins: the new emotional drug?
S277 - Profiloplasty for the nose & submental area