Abstract: | The recent developments and changes in surgical procedures such as rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, nasoplasty, otoplasty, mammoplasty, mammary reconstruction, and abdominoplasty are briefly reviewed in this article, which is substantially reduced in its overall length from the guest lecture given by the author at the Seventh International Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery held in Rio de Janeiro in May 1979, in his role as president of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). |