Customised surgery, reduced rehabilitation times, increasingly minimally invasive and accurate surgical techniques, and increasingly high-performance and biocompatible prosthetic materials. These are some
of the goals made available today by technological progress and scientific research for the treatment of orthopaedic pathologies. Illustrating the latest frontiers in the field is Dr Michel...
Visual defects (nearsightedness, astigmatism and farsightedness) are becoming increasingly common, and refractive surgery now offers several cutting-edge techniques (excimer laser and femtosecond laser) to eliminate them definitively in a completely safe and painless manner. "Beyond the age of 40, however, when the patient's defect exceeds the corrective possibilities of...
owever much my shoulder burned and stung and ached, the pleasure at being able to lie in total peace was greater.” This is how Karl Ove Knausgaard felt after he broke his collarbone at football practice. The Norwegian writer had spent the past four years taking care of a young family...
Spondylolisthesis is a pathological condition characterised by a forward displacement of a vertebra with respect to the underlying one. Surgeon Francesco Finocchiaro, head of the Operative Unit of Vertebral Surgery at the Rizzola Clinic in San Donà di Piave (VE), tells us about it. Thanks to considerable investments in...
The considerable point of view of dr. Santoro on the treatment of temporomandibular disorders
The temporomandibular joint disorders, which in Italy affect about 12% of the population and 33% have at least one symptom, include a variety of clinical situations that in addition to negatively affect mastication, swallowing and posture,...
We live in an era in which dental medicine has been profoundly transformed by technology. One of the fields where innovation has made the greatest strides is implantology. Until a few years ago, rehabilitating a full dental arch meant long healing times, temporary removable dentures, and multiple surgeries. Today,...
Masullo Medical Group: the solution for all problems related to baldness
Masullo Medical Group is a highly specialized medical surgical center in the trichological sector and in baldness surgery. Thanks to the latest generation technologies, the continuous activities aimed at professional updating, and the remarkable competence of a medical team...
It’s late 2001 and Crown Princess Masako of Japan is having a baby. Her husband, Crown Prince Naruhito, is heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy. Sinking into its fourth recession in a decade, Japan hungers for good news and hopes Masako might have a boy....
The authoritative point of view of Prof. Costantino Di Carlo
Female hormones, estrogens and / or progestogens, may be prescribed either to compensate for the deficiency resulting from menopause, or for contraception. We talk about it with Prof. Costantino Di Carlo, Ordinary of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the University of...
The increase in the number of cases of infertility due to reduced ovarian reserve has stimulated experts in Reproductive Medicine to investigate new techniques and approaches to deal with these problems. Ovarian rejuvenation is now an experimental therapeutic alternative for women who have difficulty conceiving due to early menopause,...
