Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is a publication of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the official journal of the European Association of Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (EASAPS), Società Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva ed Estetica (SICPRE), Vereinigung der Deutschen Aesthetisch Plastischen Chirurgen (VDAPC), the Romanian Aesthetic Surgery Society (RASS), Asociación Española de Cirugía Estética Plástica (AECEP), La Sociedad Argentina de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reparadora (SACPER), the Rhinoplasty Society of Europe (RSE), the Iranian Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeons (ISPAS), the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons (SAPS), the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), the Egyptian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ESPRS), the Sociedad Chilena de Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (SCCP), the Bulgarian Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (BULAPRAS), the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Plástica Reconstrutiva e Estética (SPCPRE), and Asociación Nicaragüense de Cirugía Plástica (ANCP).

The purpose of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is to provide a forum for the rapid publication of original articles dealing with techniques advancing the art of aesthetic plastic surgery. Although many of these articles will describe surgical craftsmanship per se, others will deal with complications in surgical procedures and methods by which to treat or avoid them. "Second thoughts" about long established techniques, which should or might be abandoned, modified, or improved, as well as symposia devoted to the controversies arising from the use of one particular technique vs. another and the lessons to be learned from these dialogues will be included. Individual or isolated case histories, which may add to the specialty's increasing fund of knowledge and its advancement; improvements in surgical instruments, pharmaceuticals, and operating room equipment of use to the aesthetic plastic surgeon; and discussions of ancillary problems in aesthetic plastic surgery, such as the role of psychosocial factors in the doctor-patient and the patient-public interrelationships, are all to be presented. The role of preventive medicine and genetic counseling in averting some of the conditions that ultimately require aesthetic surgical correction, as well as certain factors that influence the patient's and surgeon's aesthetic judgement in relation to the overall appearance of a body feature, and the importance of physical anthropology in understanding the patient's ethnic requirements for a particular type of surgical procedure will be discussed. The history of the development and continuing growth of aesthetic plastic surgery and the attitudes of "society" and "the public" concerning the "justification" for the use of aesthetic plastic surgery will be dealt with.

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is abstracted and covered in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, SciSearch, Research Alert, Index Medicus-MEDLINE, and Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Science Citation Index Expanded.

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is ranked #8 in the Google Scholar H-5 Index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, with a 2019 H-5 Index of 26.

Editor-in-Chief
 
Bahman Guyuron, MD, USA
 
Associate Editor
 
Lee Pu, MD, USA
 
Section Editors
 
Facial Surgery
 
Brian Mendelson, FRCSE, FRACS, FACS, Australia
 
Breast Surgery
 
Ruth Graf, MD, PhD, Brazil
 
Oculoplastic
 
Dirk Richter, MD, PhD, Germany
 
Body Contouring
 
Kai-Uwe Schlaudraff, MD, FEBOPRAS, FMH, Switzerland
 
Rhinoplasty
 
Nazim Cerkes, MD, PhD, Turkey
 
Craniofacial/Maxillofacial Aesthetic Surgery
 
Michael Yaremchuk, MD
 
Non-Surgical Aesthetic
 
Jason Pozner, MD, FACS, USA
 
Special Topics
 
Gianluca Campiglio, MD, PhD, Italy
 
Patient Safety
 
Renato Saltz, MD, FACS, USA
 
Basic Science/Experimental
 
Dana Jianu, MD, PhD, Romania
 
Practice Management
 
W. Grant Stevens, MD, FACS, USA
 
Genital Surgery
 
Lina Triana, MD, Colombia
 
Editorial/Review Board
 
Alfonso Barrera, MD, FACS, USA
 
Mehmet Bayramicli, MD, Turkey
 
Chiara Botti, MD, Italy
 
Giovanni Botti, MD, Italy
 
Francisco G. Bravo, MD, PhD, Spain
 
Mitchell Brown, MD, Canada
 
Nuri Celik, MD, Turkey
 
Mario Pelle Ceravolo, MD, Italy
 
Steven Cohen, MD, FACS, USA
 
Sydney Coleman, MD, USA
 
Haiyan Cui, MD, China
 
Claudio DeLorenzi, MD, Canada
 
Steve Fagien, MD, USA
 
Giuseppe Ferraro, MD, PhD, Italy
 
Julio Louis Garcia, MD, USA
 
Ashkan Ghavami, MD, USA
 
Robert Gilman, MD, DMD, USA
 
Joao Carlos Sampaio Goes, MD, PhD, Brazil
 
Ronald Gruber, MD, FACS, USA
 
Wolfgang Gubisch, MD, Germany
 
Lifei Guo, MD, USA
 
Farhad Hafezi, MD, Iran
 
Dennis Hammond, MD, USA
 
Ivar van Heijningen, MD, Belgium
 
Darryl Hodgkinson, MD, FACS, FRCS(C), Australia
 
Joseph P. Hunstad, MD, FACS, USA
 
Noemi Kelemen, MD, MSc, UK
 
Kamran Khoobehi, MD, FACS, USA
 
Brian Kinney, MD, USA
 
Marco Klinger, MD, Italy
 
Bianca Knoll, MD, Germany
 
Paraskevas Kontoes, MD, PhD, Greece
 
Michelle Lee, MD, USA
 
Ioannis Liapakis, MD, PhD, Greece
 
Tsai-Ming Lin, MD, PhD, Taiwan
 
William Little, MD, USA
 
Jie Luan, MD, China
 
Apostolos Mandrekas, MD, PhD, Greece
 
Jeffrey Marcus, MD, USA
 
Timothy Marten, MD, FACS, USA
 
Arturo Ramirez Montañana, MD, Argentina
 
Fabio Nahas, MD, PhD, FACS, MBA, Brazil
 
Nina Naidu, MD, FACS, USA
 
Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD, FACS, Japan
 
Tim Papadopoulos, MD, Australia
 
Luis Fernando Perin, MD, FACS, Brazil
 
Kirill Pshenisnov, MD, PhD, Russia
 
Lee L.Q. Pu, MD, PhD, USA
 
Ricardo Ribeiro, MD, Brazil
 
Enrico Robotti, MD, Italy
 
J. Peter Rubin, MD, FACS, USA
 
Min-Hee Ryu, MD, China
 
Osvaldo Saldanha, MD, Brazil
 
Peter Scott, MD, South Africa
 
Cemal Şenyuva, MD, Turkey
 
Luís Ricardo Martinhão Souto, MD, PhD, Brazil
 
Ozan Sozer, MD, USA
 
Susumu Takayanagi, MD, PhD, Japan
 
Tunc Tiryaki, MD, Turkey
 
Dean M. Toriumi, MD, USA
 
Ali Totonchi, MD, USA
 
Su-Ben Tsao, MD, Taiwan
 
Alexis Verpaele, MD, Belgium
 
Carlos Uebel, MD, PhD, Brazil
 
Heidi Waldorf, MD, USA
 
Maria Wiedner, MD, Germany
 
Chin-Ho Wong, MD, Singapore
 
Kotaro Yoshimura, MD, Japan
 
Chung-Chih Yu, MD, Taiwan
 
Li Yu, MD, China
 
James Zins, MD, USA
 
Associate Editorial Board Members
 
Rieka Taghizadeh, MBChB, MRCS(Glas), FRCS(Plast), UK
 
Resident and Fellow Board Members
 
Lisa Gfrerer, MD, PhD, USA
 
Katherine A. Grunzweig, MD, USA
 
Managing Editor
 
Suzann McClenahan
 
Founding Editor
 
Blair O. Rogers, MD (1975-2002)
 
Editors-in-Chief Emeriti
 
Thomas M. Biggs, MD (2003-2010)
 
Henry M. Spinelli, MD, FACS (2011-2016)