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Dr. Richards responds:

Although in the past I have enjoyed sharing opinions regarding aesthetic surgery techniques with Dr. Bahman Teimourian (a plastic surgeon who has practiced in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. for more than 40 years at the hospital where I perform the majority of my surgeries), I found his letter inaccurate and misleading.

Dr. Teimourian spoke with me in December of 2004, alleging that he had previously described the minimal incision brachioplasty (MIB) technique I detailed in this publication in the summer of 2001.1 It is noteworthy that he raised no such objections during the occasions when we discussed my technique while I was writing the article during the winter of 2000-2001. Additionally, when I first presented my MIB technique at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland in June of 2000, Dr. Rod Rohrich (editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) and Dr. Alan Matarasso (a senior scientific editor of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal) were both present and expressed a strong interest in having this “new technique” published in their respective journals. Both were unfamiliar with its description elsewhere.

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