[French innovations in aesthetic surgery of the face].

This article on French innovations in aesthetic surgery is a report mainly centered on the cervicofacial renovation surgery, with historic review and interviews of people who played a dominating role regarding anatomical works, invention and innovation of techniques, and their development. The main theme is the facial face-lift, which genesis dates back to the First World War, and to the surgery of the « gueules cassées » with Morestin, father of the French plastic surgery. During the interwar years, plastic surgery techniques were developed by great French names such as Passot, Noël and Bourguet. The invention of the craniofacial surgery in the 1960s and historic anatomical works on the SMAS by Tessier and his team in the 1970s, allowed to clarify for everyone the various principles and indications of the face-lift, recently improved by Le Louarn and Besins. It is besides, in nasal aesthetic surgery, and still thanks to anatomical works, that Robin described in 1973 the technique of rhinoplasty by extramucous way, then developed by Jost, co-inventor with his master Redon of the aspirating drain tile.