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ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2026

Reply: Patient Preferences for Utilization of Telemedicine in Aesthetic Surgery Consultations.

Valeria P Bustos, Emily Long, Samuel Lin

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Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Valeria P BustosDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
Emily LongDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis St, Suite 5A, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Samuel LinDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis St, Suite 5A, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. sjlin@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper is a reply to Parsa Veisi Commentary discussing concerns raised regarding our paper Long et al. (Aesthet Plast Surg 49:4439-4446, 2025). Our paper aimed to assess patient preferences and comfort with virtual aesthetic consultation. The findings provide relevant insights that enable readers to critically interpret the results and assess their applicability to their own practice settings. Importantly, this study functions as a robust hypothesis generator source to drive future research studies.No Level Assigned This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each submission to which Evidence-Based Medicine rankings are applicable. This excludes Review Articles, Book Reviews, and manuscripts that concern Basic Science, Animal Studies, Cadaver Studies, and Experimental Studies. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

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Patient PreferencePlastic Surgery ProceduresSurgery, PlasticTelemedicineCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleAesthetic surgeryCosmetic surgeryCOVID-19Plastic surgeryTelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID41807624

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