Inside Aesthetics

Episode 181 hosts Professor Sebastian Cotofana, Associate Professor of Anatomy at the Mayo Clinic, USA. Professor Cotofana is the world's best well-known anatomist for facial aesthetics, a prolific researcher and has published well over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.   We discuss: Sebastian's background and training What a typical day looks like for him  Who does his research and how he coordinates this The hierarchy of authorship on academic papers We then do something different for this episode and drill down into the details of four of his recent and best known clinical papers. We discuss for each paper: - What the paper is about and why it was done? - What were the methods and the main outcomes? What is the learning point and relevance to injectors? Paper 1: ‘To click or not to click – The importance of understanding the layers of the forehead when injecting neuromodulators – A clinical, prospective, interventional, split-face study’ (30 November 2020) https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.13