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United Press International - November 16, 2004
The HIV/AIDS drug treatment often makes people appear gaunt and emaciated. Traditionally, facial wasting syndrome has been treated using the patient's own fat.
But frequent adjustments and additional procedures are often required, while custom designed implants tend to remain stable after implantation, maintaining original size and structure.
Dr. William Binder of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Dr. David Bloom of the University of Washington, Seattle, used high resolution computer tomography to custom design facial implants in the treatment of 22 patients with facial wasting syndrome.
"Overall, 22 patients had excellent aesthetic postoperative outcomes as determined by the patient and the surgeon," the authors wrote in the November/December issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. "Fourteen of the 22 patients received custom implants for more severe midfacial changes, and eight patients received 'off-the-shelf' submalar implants for midfacial conditions of moderate severity."
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