Rete pegs (aka rete processes or rete ridges or papillae) are epithelial extensions that project into the underlying connective tissue in both skin and mucous membranes.
In the epithelium of the mouth, the attached gingiva exhibit rete pegs, while the sulcular and junctional epithelia do not. Scar tissue lacks ret
Prison plastic surgery programs were commonplace until the early 1990s
Prison plastic surgery is plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery (often the terms are used interchangeably) offered and performed to people who are incarcerated, as a means of soci
Gaspare Tagliacozzi was an Italian surgeon and pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery whose principal work is entitled “On the Surgery of Mutilation by Grafting” (1597)
Gaspare Tagliacozzi (his last name has also been spelled Taliacotius, Tagliacoze or Tagliacozzio) was born in Bologna in 1545. He began his medical studies in 1565. He studie
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together in a manner biologically similar to the artificial process of grafting
The term is derived from the Latin roots in + ōsculārī, “to kiss into/inward/against” or etymologically and more illustratively “to make a small mouth inwar