New Trends in Plastic Surgery: From Substitutive Surgery to the Regenerative Surgery

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is devoted to recent advances in regenerative plastic surgery focusing on the development of new autologous and/or mini-invasive procedures, starting from past experience with substitutive surgery. Clinical advantages exist for the development of biotechnologies and new regenerative strategies to enhance plastic surgery techniques traditionally based on flap, graft and prostheses. To acquire this, advances in tissue engineering have to revolve around the improvement of mini invasive technology. During this case, the combined or uncombined use of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP), micro-needling technique (MN-T), fat grafting, adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AD-MSCs), human follicle stem cells (HFSCs), human adipose tissue-derived follicle stem cells (H-AT-d-FSCs) and biomaterials to enhance soft tissue defects (breast, face, buttock), hair re-growth and lower extremity ulcers appears to be fundamentals. A special focus must be dedicated to the innovative use of these minimal manipulation procedures.

For this Special Issue, we welcome submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in wound healing, hair science, breast reconstruction/augmentation, face rejuvenation and buttock augmentation. Studies comprising new strategies based on autologous and/or mini-invasive procedures are also related to regenerative strategies such as PRP, HFSCs, H-AT-d-FSCs, AD-MSCs, MN-T fat grafting, biomaterials and the development of new approaches are welcome, as are comprehensive review/systematic review papers.

Prof. Dr. Pietro Gentile
Guest Editor

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• Platelet-rich plasma (PRP)
• Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AD-MSCs)
• Hair re-growth
• Wound healing
• Soft tissue defects
• Fat grafting
• Human follicle stem cells (HFSCs)