Welcome to episode 9 of The Rest is Plastics, in this episode we interviewed the authors of this paper from the April edition of the journal - Functional outcomes of dual nerve transfer in patients with facial paralysis. We interviewed Dr Rami Ezzibdeh who is first author and an ENT resident at Stanford University, and senior author Dr Jon-Paul Pepper.

Dr. Pepper is a double-board certified surgeon who specializes in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the face, in particular surgery facial paralysis. He has directed the clinical activities at the Stanford Facial Nerve Center since 2017. He also directs the scientific work of the Stanford Facial Nerve Center, and his NIH-funded research seeks new strategies to improve nerve regeneration after injury. His clinical practice focuses on facial reanimation, aging face surgery, rhinoplasty, and reconstruction after Mohs surgery.

You can read the paper for free here -

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1748681525000841

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In this episode I interviewed legendary Professor Fu Chan Wei about his most recent paper in JPRAS -

The Pectoralis Major Myocutaneous Pedicled Flap - its past and current practice in a dedicated microsugery service, Review of the Literature and Debunking Controversies

He also reflected on his over 40 year career in plastic surgery and we discussed the past and future of the specialty.

You can read the paper for free here - https://www.jprasurg.com/article/S1748-6815(24)00754-X/fulltext

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In this episode we spoke to Dr Juliette Hommes and Dr Robert Verheij from the Netherlands, regaerding their papers 'Breast implant illness revisted: a cohort study of health symptoms in women with implant-based breast reconstruction' and 'Health symptoms and cosmetic silicone breast implants: a retrospective cohort study'

The first paper was published in the March 2025 edition of JPRAS, you can read it for free here -

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1748681525000270

The second paper was publishd in December 2024 and you can read it here -

https://www.jprasurg.com/article/S1748-6815(24)00666-1/fulltext

It is a great paper about a hot topic.

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