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G E N E R A L S E C R E T A R Y ’ S M E S S A G E
As technology and techniques evolve, Plastic Surgeons
around the world are continuously presented with an evergrowing
number of options to be offered to their patients.
Although sophistication and/or simplicity obviously vary in
the choices we have today, I consider the current use of fat
grafting one of the more sophisticated, as well as one of the
simplest, techniques that we can use.
It is simple because it is right there, anywhere, everywhere!!!
The patients have been asking us to remove and to replace
fat since Professeur Illouz first showed us how to aspirate it
on the early 80´s. Techniques and suggestions for techniques
having gone through the natural history of evolution, and the
good ones were established with time.
It is sophisticated because it carries a wealth of options and
benefits !!!
The relatively recent finding of these cells having specialized
tissue, or tissue which could turn into a specific lineage of
cells, has turned our minds into different directions, when we
use fat as a filling, or as grafting.
Benefits are being shown by the day, with hundreds of papers
already published on this subject. Experts and exponents
appear in several corners of the world.
The good news - we know who they are! These experts came
Dr. Nelson Piccolo
IPRAS General Secretary
to Berlin, this June, to show the state of the art in fat usage.
These experts meet under a name – ISPRES, the International
Society for Plastic Regenerative Surgery.
Sydney Coleman was the President of ISPRES Berlin 2013 -
together with Norbert Pallua , local host in Germany and Gino
Rigotti ( from Italy ), President of ISPRES, under the auspices
of IPRAS and its President, Marita Eisenmann-Klein, and they
were able to put together a major meeting, with tens and tens
of presentations who brought us basic science, and from basic
science to the operating room table and to the Office, where
satisfied patients want more, and more, and more...
There was even a terminolgy consensus panel when these
same experts took a look at the bulk of the related published
material to see how we have been naming these findings and
this progress, and how we could implement a more “uniform
language“ when we publish or discuss our progress in this
field of Plastic Surgery.
We have been living in the internet age for a little over 20
years now. Search engines are a part of our everyday life.
These engines have an ability, after being given a key search
term, to “choose” the most frequently related search terms
for that specific subject, and multiply the area of search
enormously. If we were able to use a uniform set of terms on
our future discussions and publications, besides “speaking the
same language” with the consequently obvious benefits for
the Specialty, there would also be a gain in how our research
and our results could be found and distributed.
As another bonus from ISPRES Berlin 2013, IPRAS and
ISPRES is creating a task force to promote guidelines for
standardization of terminology of the emerging adipose
derived technology and techniques (including fat grafting,
adipose stem cells and SVF).
We are always happy to see Plastic Surgeons from around the
world working on improving the ways we practice, bringing
new benefits to our patients– we are always happy to see
Plastic Surgery at its best!!!
Dr. Nelson Piccolo, IPRAS General Secretary, Dr. Sydney
Coleman, ISPRES General Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Adel Noreldin,
IPRAS Deputy General Secretary
Dr. Nelson Piccolo
IPRAS General Secretary
Issue 13 www.ipras.org IPRAS Journal 7