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Prof. Hernandez Alfaro in GQ magazine

Prof. Federico Hernandez Alfaro appears in the March 2023 edition of the prestigious GQ magazine in its UK and Italian edition. The article, published in the Health section of the digital and printed edition of the magazine, deals with male facial surgery, for which a correspondent from the magazine spent a couple of days at...

Prof. Hernandez Alfaro on the prestigious Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists list for the second consecutive year

The classification, prepared by the prestigious Californian university and published by Elsevier, identifies the researchers whose works have been most cited during their scientific career evaluated between the years 1996-2021 and also during part of the last year 2022. This ranking is based on several parameters that include the number of indexed publications, citations received,...

1 in 4 adults have sleep apnea, and don’t know it

90% of sleep apnea cases go undiagnosed. That is why the Trueta hospital in Girona has started a sleep apnea detection project, which will begin in Catalonia with a projection to eventually spread throughout Spain and Europe. To tackle the underdiagnosis of sleep deprivation, Primary Care Centers will be the first detection points,  where a...

Bad posture and its effects on the maxillofacial area

We rarely think that poor posture can affect our occlusion and by extension, the appearance of our face. Correct posture means that the body weight is correctly distributed and there is good body balance. When we do not maintain good posture, the body seeks to compensate and seek balance in various ways: throwing the head...