“Cosmetic dermatology is such a fast moving field—the fastest-moving field in all of dermatology—so updates are crucial.” – Dr. Jeffrey Dover
One of the big new areas in the field is how we’re using existing fillers. Fillers have been around for a couple of years, but the techniques have completely changed. Unless someone has the chance to travel to meetings all over the world, they’re never really going to be able to keep up with the new and evolving techniques—that’s what makes these new editions so special. We include detailed descriptions and videos by experts that show exactly how the techniques are done, how the fillers are mixed, and where they’re placed. It’s a great learning experience.
Whenever a book gets updated it’s important to make it way better than the previous edition and that’s exactly what we’re doing. This edition has more photographs and more and higher-quality videos that show techniques performed by true experts. We’ve also added small vignettes to highlight exactly what’s new and how the experts address each of those areas. The new books have more detailed case studies in which the expert editors describe how individual patients are affected by the conditions that we show. The cases are described in detail with questions and answers so the reader gets a feel for what’s happening in clinical practice, making it more practical and not so academic.
We’ve hand-picked some of the best dermatologic surgeons in the world to work with on this series. The editors are true experts—people who do this on a daily basis in their practice, who don’t just write about it or teach about it. They’re the ones who have written each of these chapters and produced these videos specifically for this series. It’s all brand new material. There’s nothing like it anywhere else.
We’re combining two volumes of Lasers and Lights into one so we’ll have a comprehensive volume with everything you need to know. Plus, we’re highlighting the most important and exciting advances in the area of lasers and lights in that one volume.
Another one of the exciting new volumes is the update on botulinum toxins. We now have several of these toxins, and Alastair and Jean Carruthers, who are world experts in this, are heading up our effort to edit the third edition of Botulinum Toxin.
The reason we’re working on a new edition of Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology is that cosmetic dermatology is such a fast moving field—the fastest moving field in all of dermatology, so updates are crucial. That’s why this new edition is so exciting.
Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FRCPC is a director of SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He is also an associate clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, an adjunct professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Dermatology at Brown Medical School.
Dr. Dover is the author of more than 350 scientific publications and he has co-authored and edited more than 40 textbooks. He is an editor of the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology series. Dr. Dover has served as president of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery and as vice president of the American Society of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. He was also president of the New England Dermatological Society.
Dr. Dover has received many honors and is listed as one of the best cosmetic surgeons in the U.S. by Town & Country and among the top dermatologists in multiple editions of Boston Magazine, Who’s Who of American Medicine, Guide to Top Doctors, and The Best Doctors in America. Dr. Dover is also a recipient of the Leon Goldman Award as well as the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery’s Ellet Drake Award.
Related Authors: Murad Alam, MD; Alastair Carruthers, MA, BM, BCh, FRCP(Lon), FRCPC; George J. Hruza, MD; Jean Carruthers, MD, FRCSC
