What Scar Revision Surgery Can and Cannot Do: Realistic Results and the Year-Long Maturation
Scar revision surgery can make a scar narrower, flatter, better aligned with skin creases, or less tight, but it cannot erase a scar; it…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,145 plain-language articles across 62 topics, symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing, written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
How Pediatric Plastic Surgery Is Timed: Growth, Function and Why Some Repairs Are Staged
There is no single right age for pediatric plastic surgery. Surgeons time each operation around growth and function: cleft lip is commonly repaired at…
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Breast Lift Scars and Daily Life After Mastopexy: Sleeping, Sports Bras and Sun Protection
Breast lift scars are permanent, but they usually change a great deal. Most fade from raised and pink to flat, pale lines over roughly…
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What Causes Lack of Sleep? The Medical, Hormonal and Lifestyle Reasons, Sorted
Lack of sleep usually has more than one cause. Doctors sort them into medical conditions (pain, reflux, sleep apnea, restless legs, thyroid disease), mental…
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Tooth Decay Treatment Visit: Numbing, Removing Damaged Tissue and Restoring the Tooth
A cavity treatment procedure usually has three steps: the dentist numbs the area with a local anesthetic, removes the softened, decayed part of the…
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Who May Be a Candidate for SBRT for Early-Stage Lung Cancer When Surgery Is Not Planned
SBRT for early-stage lung cancer is usually considered for people with a small non-small cell lung cancer that has not spread to lymph nodes…
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Resistance Bands vs Weights: What the Research Says About Building Muscle at Home
Resistance bands can build muscle and strength at home, and the best available evidence, a 2019 meta-analysis of randomized trials, found no significant difference…
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Robotic vs Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery: How Surgeons Decide Which Approach Fits You
Robotic and laparoscopic bariatric surgery are both minimally invasive; the difference is how the surgeon controls the instruments, not what is done to the…
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Liver Enzymes Explained: ALT, AST and GGT: What Raised Numbers Mean
Liver enzymes such as ALT, AST and GGT are proteins that leak into the blood when liver cells are stressed or injured. Mildly raised…
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How a Smile Makeover Is Planned: Photographs, Digital Impressions and Smile Design
A smile makeover is planned in stages: a dental health examination first, then a set of standardized photographs, a digital scan of the teeth,…
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What a Hernia Feels and Looks Like (and What Gets Mistaken for One)
A hernia usually feels like a dull ache, heaviness, or burning around a soft lump, most often in the groin or near the navel,…
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Living With Autoimmune Hepatitis: Alcohol, Vaccines, Work and Long-Term Liver Check-Ups
Most people living with autoimmune hepatitis lead full lives on long-term immune-suppressing medicine, with regular blood tests to confirm the liver stays quiet. Alcohol…
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Why a PSMA PET Scan Comes Before Lutetium-177 PSMA Therapy and What It Has to Show
A PSMA PET scan comes before lutetium-177 PSMA therapy because the treatment only works on cancer cells that display the PSMA protein, and the…
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How Advanced Mapping and Imaging Guide the Catheter During an Ablation Procedure
During cardiac ablation, a 3D mapping system tracks the catheter tip using weak magnetic fields or small electrical signals sensed through patches on the…
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Cavities in Adults: Why They Still Happen and Whether Early Decay Can Reverse
Cavities still happen in adults because bacteria in plaque turn sugars into acid, and when acid attacks outnumber saliva's repair cycles, enamel loses mineral…
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Why Jaw Growth Decides When Implantology Can Place an Implant in a Younger Patient
Dental implants for teenagers are usually postponed until the jaw has stopped growing, because an implant fuses to bone and cannot move with the…
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When Widespread Pain and Poor Sleep Call for a Fibromyalgia Evaluation
See a doctor about fibromyalgia when pain has been present on both sides of the body, above and below the waist, for roughly three…
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Acute vs Chronic Urticaria: How the Six-Week Line Changes the Way Hives Are Investigated
Acute urticaria is hives that settle within six weeks; chronic urticaria is hives that keep appearing, on most days, for longer than six weeks.…
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