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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 1999;1:60-61.

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At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Surgical Techniques and Devices Committee sponsored a panel presentation on the current status of soft implants. The panel members were Harry Mittleman, MD, Mark Rubin, MD, and Russell Kridel, MD. The panel was moderated by Richard L. Goode, MD. Soft implants are defined as implants for the correction of facial rhytids and deeper depressions that can either be injected or surgically inserted and remain soft and flexible after placement.

Autologous fat, dermis, and fascia have been used in the past as soft-filler materials but have the disadvantage of requiring a donor site and may have unpredictable rates of absorption. Bovine collagen (Zyderm and Zyplast) is probably the best-known injectable material designed for the purpose of correcting rhytids and small depressions in the skin and provides a standard by which other materials can be compared as . . . [Full Text of this Article]