Serdev Suture® MID-FACE SMAS LIFT: bloodless, scarless, transcutaneous

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Hi Nikolay, Thank you for sharing your video. It is a simple but elegant technique which gives a nice result on the table. It reminds me of my professor at Duke, Gregg Ruff's quill suture technique for lifting facial soft tissues. I tried his approach in ten of my patient but could not get long lasting results. Are you familiar with the Ruff technique, and if so how does your approach differ? Rob Rehnke

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Hi dear colleague, Kindly make difference between my "Serdev suture" which means stable sewing the mobile SMAS higher to the immobile periosteum and the non sutured barbed or quill threads positioned in the unstable subdermal fat. Barbed or quill threads are non sutured, not fixed to anything, free floating, free moving and of course with barbed or quill threads you cannot get stable results. I am always surprised that american doctors cannot make difference between sutura (in latin) and non sutured barbed threads. The majority of the rest of the world learns medicine in Latin language and cannot mix sutura (engl. "suture") with a non sutured thread (engl. "suture") :))))