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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2003;5:7.

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FACIAL PLASTIC surgery throughout its history has sometimes focused more on the art than the science of our specialty. Great advances have been made in both reconstructive and cosmetic procedures to improve our patients' quality of life. There remain, however, difficult problems such as craniofacial deformities, unfavorable scarring, and chronic wounds that can be solved only with a deeper understanding of the genetics and molecular biology related to facial development and wound healing. This issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery marks our expansion to 6 issues per year and celebrates the science and technology that represent the future of facial plastic surgery.

This January/February issue is twice the size of our typical issue to allow us to publish a diverse group of articles that represent research as varied as cleft lip embryology, the effects of growth factors on wound healing, pharmacologic enhancement of flap survival, biomechanical studies of . . . [Full Text of this Article]