Advanced Technique in Facial Plastic Surgery: Aesthetic and Reconstruction

The art of facial plastic surgery was born with Egyptian culture several years ago. This art was developed by European surgeons before and American, to arrive to our time.

The surgical techniques become every times less invasive, the endoscopy changed not only the way to do the surgery but helps surgeon to discover all details of the anatomy.

The microsurgery is necessary to refine the details, less invasive and precise has the ability to reduce the post-surgery time. New methodologies have been developed to avoid the surgery as injectable product, needle suture that doesn’t need surgery, Botox to treat wrinkles and asymmetry in place of frontal lifting technique.

This special issue will be focused on new technique or in review of the old ones.

I consider very important the anatomy in each discussed technique for this reason I will introduce it in this special issue.

Hearing Loss which Solutions? Present and Future

The hearing loss is a problem able to involve more than 75% of people after 75 years old, so is one of the most important problems for HealthCare system.

Hearing loss as degenerative aging disease is one part of the hearing disorders, there are other problems linked to genetic defect, trauma, metabolic disease and autoimmune disorders able to determinate hearing loss.

We can treat this “social” disease or not, but recent studies show how the hearing loss is able to influence dementia in older. Sometimes the patient doesn’t accept the hearing treatment and accept his condition has an aging disease.

Now we can use hearing aids, cochlear implants, Implantable prosthesis and bone anchorage system. The biotech industry is developing everyday more sophisticated technologies to restore the normal hearing function and to micronize the prosthesis.

Is available another future? Genetic therapy? Hair Cells restoration? New drugs to avoid the oxidative stress and preserve the hearing function? Or new biotechnology able to offer the same performance of normal hearing? Total implantable device?

I invite the authors to submit not only original researches but also reviews and commentary.

In this special issue we want to present the present and the future in hearing loss treatment.

Rare Head and Neck Tumors

Dear Reader,

Rare non-squamous cell head and neck cancers constitute a wide range of tumors such lymphomas, plasmacytomas, sarcomas, and neuroendocrine tumors. Although during the last two decades, a substantial progress has been witnessed in the classification and understanding of the clinical behavior of rare non squamous cell head and neck cancers, but many unresolved issues regarding their epidemiology, treatment, and prognosis still exists. In this edition, we will elaborate on those rare cancers arising in the head and neck region, trying to discover hidden clinical concerns with respect to their epidemiology and optimal treatment.