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As compared to other surgical specialties, the conundrum plastic surgeons have always faced is the plethora of technical approaches available for specific procedures. This wide variety of methods has long been a source of confusion to surgeons attempting to master a particular procedure. From our perspective, following decades of experience, we have now arrived at the point where the essential elements which share a commonality among seemingly different technical approaches can now be delineated. The focus of the 46th Annual Baker Gordon Symposium on Cosmetic Surgery is to distill and clarify the essential technical elements required to produce consistent aesthetic results in body contour surgery, breast shaping and rhinoplasty. In our opinion, while there are a variety of technical approaches which can be utilized to obtain excellence in cosmetic surgery, it is defining the essential elements required for a particular procedure which allows surgeons to produce artistically satisfying results for both patients and surgeons.

This year’s symposium will begin by examining the essential elements for PRECISION IN NASAL SHAPING UTILIZING VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE GRAFTS TO IMPROVE NASAL CONTOUR . We will also examine CURRENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN COSMETIC MEDICINE, including NONSURGICAL SKIN TIGHTENING, NON-SURGICAL FAT REMOVAL, as well as LIVE DEMONSTRATION SUTILIZING A VARIETY OF INJECTABLE FILLERS AND NEUROMODULATOR S. This year’s meeting will also emphasize ADVANCES IN BODY CONTOUR SURGERY, including new methods to improve LARGE VOLUME LIPOSUCTION, improving ABDOMINAL CONTOUR and SILHOUETTE AESTHETICS UTILIZING LIPOA BDOMINOPLASTY and methods for surgical analysis and techniques for GLUTEAL AUGMENTATION . Newest advances in BREAST AUGMENTATION COMBINING BREAST IMPLANT PLACEMENT WITH AUTOLO GOUS FAT GRAFTING, as well as CURRENT TECHNIQUES FOR SMALL VOLUME BREAST REDUCTION AND MASTOPEXY TO CONTROL BREAST SHAPE WHILE RESTORING SUPERIOR POLE FULLNESS will be examined.

In the tradition of the Baker Gordon Symposium, we have limited our faculty in an attempt to allow focus on interactive interchange between faculty, hosts and audience. The tradition of combining academic didactics with live demonstrations by masters in plastic surgery has always been the hallmark of the Baker Gordon Symposium. Hopefully, this year’s meeting will continue our tradition of excellence in aesthetic surgery education.