1. Evaluating the aesthetic patient / Paul J. Carniol, Daniel Ganc, and Amanda Klinger -- 2. Patients with unrealistic expectations / Eva Ritvo, Christopher La Riche, and Mark A. Stillman -- 3. Deciding whom to perform a procedure on, which procedure, and how to say "no" / Phillip R. Langsdon and Mary Gorman -- 4. Minimal recovery procedures / Mark S. Nestor and Glynis R. Ablon -- 5. Patients who only want natural, nonoperated-appearing results / Harry Mittelman and Gregory J. Vipond -- 6. Cosmetic concerns and therapeutic considerations in ethnic skin / Cheryl Burgess -- 7. The aging face in a multiethnic world / Stephen C. Adler, Eric T. Adler, and Paul J. Carniol -- 8. Hispanic facial plastic surgery / Eric T. Adler, Stephen C. Adler, and Paul J. Carniol -- 9. Aesthetic rejuvenation for Asian patients / Samuel M. Lam -- 10. Aesthetic rejuvenation in Indian or Pakistani patients / Rashmi Sarkar [and others] -- 11. Aesthetic rejuvenation for patients of Middle Eastern descent / Issam R. Hamadah, Natalie A. Kim, and Murad Alam -- 12. Blepharoplasty for Asian patients / Jung I. Park and Edward S. Kwak -- 13. Aesthetic eyelid surgery in different ethnic groups / Sterling S. Baker and Randal Pham -- 14. Ethnic rhinoplasty in patients of African descent / William Lawson and Konstantin Vasyukevich -- 15. Rhinoplasty in patients of Hispanic descent / Konstantin Vasyukevich and William Lawson -- 16. Management of the twisted nose / Stephen A. Goldstein and Paul J. Carniol -- 17. Lasers, light sources, radiofrequency devices and new technologies for skin of color / Vic A. Narurkar -- 18. Cosmetic procedures in skin of color / Heather Woolery-Lloyd and Mohamed L. Elsaie -- 19. The treatment of acne scars in different groups / Greg Goodman -- 20. Hair transplantation / Alfonso Barrera -- 21. Aesthetic procedures for patients with medical problems / Chad L. Prather -- 22. Secondary rhytidectomy and revision procedures / Seth A. Yellin and Anita B. Sethna -- 23. Dealing with the dissatisfied patient / Sigmund L. Sattenspiel -- 24. Psychiatric considerations for aesthetic procedures face to face : straight talk / Harish Kumar Malhotra.
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Every practitioner of aesthetic medicine and surgery will already have a series of textbooks instructing on how to treat the standard patient. Unfortunately, every practitioner will also have patients who do not conform to the average - who are of a different age, or sex, or ethnicity, or medical history, or who have special social requirements. This book looks at those complicated areas that tend to be ignored in the more standard textbooks, but are of intense interest to those practitioners who are confronted by a patient not conforming to the standard treatment; it pools the expertise of to.