Correction to: The Regulatory Landscape of Cell- and Tissue-Based Regenerative Medicine: Current Challenges and Emerging
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Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery
Dominik Duscher • Melvin A. Shiffman Editors
Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery Elements, Research Concepts and Emerging Technologies
Editors Dominik Duscher Department for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery Division of Experimental Plastic Surgery Technical University of Munich Munich Germany
Melvin A. Shiffman Private Practice Tustin, CA USA
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To Aura, the love of my life Dominik Duscher
Foreword
Plastic surgery, by its very nature, takes care of nearly every part of the human body including the skin, muscles, bones, nerves, and blood vessels. As Joseph G. McCarthy, my former Chief at NYU, once said, plastic surgeons are problem-solvers. They are called upon by other practioners to develop creative solutions to unsolvable problems in nearly every anatomic region. Thus, it is not surprising that plastic surgeons have flocked to the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine, which promises even more elegant solutions to clinical problems found everywhere in the human body. Regenerative medicine proposes using cellular and molecular processes to recreate the exact same tissues that plastic surgeons perform long operations to recreate. It is logical that plastic surgery would be at the forefront of the field of regenerative medicine. And this is indeed the case at stem cell conferences and tissue engineering symposia, where plastic surgeons often outnumber all the other clinical attendees combined. However, up until now, there did not exist an autho
