Plastic Surgery and COVID-19 in the GCC: Fears, Lessons Learned, and the Plan for the Future

Background:. With the labeling of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, national directives were issued instructing to close all cosmetic clinics, suspend all cosmetic procedures, and only operate on an emergency basis. As a result, many plastic surgeons...

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Main Authors: Nouf A. Al Saud, MBBS, DES, DESC, Shahad N. Alanazi, MBBS, Feras M. Alshomer, MBBS, MSc, SB-PLAST, Abdullah E. Kattan, MBBS, FRCS(C), Mohamed A. Mrad, MBBS, FRCSC, FACS, Zuhair Al Fardan, MD, FRCS(C), Taghreed R. Alhumsi, MBBS, SB-PLAST, EBOPRAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2020-09-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000003225