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.13875

Paper 2: 'The Bidirectional Movement of the Frontalis Muscle: Introducing the Line of Convergence and Its Potential Clinical Relevance' (May 2020)

DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006756

Paper 3: 'Facial Soft Tissue Repositioning With Neuromodulators: Lessons Learned From Facial Biomechanics' (April 2022)

DOI: 10.1093/asj/sjac090

Paper 4: 'Quantitative Analysis of the Lifting Effect of Facial Soft-Tissue Filler Injections' (May 2021)

DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007857

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