The Medicolegal Challenges of Facial Plastic Surgery: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Facial plastic surgery is associated with a growing number of medicolegal challenges, particularly because of postoperative complications and patient dissatisfaction. This systematic review aimed to examine the medicolegal challenges associated with facial plastic surgery, focusing on postoperative complications, patient dissatisfaction, litigation cases, and medicolegal risk factors. A comprehensive literature search was conducted in MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD), Embase (Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Cochrane Library (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ), PubMed (National Library of Medicine), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, PA), SCOPUS (Elsevier), and Google Scholar (Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, CA) from 2020 to 2024. Medicolegal cases related to facia

SUBMITTER: Mussabekova SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12358214 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature