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    Impact of Surgeon’s Instagram Television (IGTV): A Case of Chimeric Fibula and Soleus Muscle Transplant in a Reconstruction of Cordeiro Type IIIA Total Maxillectomy Defect
    (Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 2020-01-31) Massarelli, Olindo; Hanna, Todd; Ganry, Laurent; Nagorniak, Ivan; Fesenko, Ievgen
    IGTV, a new option provided by Instagram Inc., was launched in June 20, 2018, i.e. 7 years 8 months after starting parent application–social media.1 IGTV is both a standalone application and available within an Instagram but only in basic functionality. Four letters of the acronym “IGTV” mean “Instagram Television.”2 Lydia Belanger also described IGTV as a “social-media based television” and “Instagram`s new longform video app.”3 Meanwhile, multiple advantageous role of the chimeric flaps in a jaw reconstructive surgeries continues to increase during last three decades.4, 5, 6 Fibula free flap,7 being alone an extremely productive workhorse in all types of jaw reconstructions8 including “jaw-in-a-day surgery,”9 can also be successfully used with soleus muscle in a chimeric manner for composite defect reconstructions.10, 11 Combination of the social media`s (in our particular case it is Instagram) advantages with IGTV (i.e., a longform video application), and a professional quality recording system12 can perfectly highlight the operation and bring the surgical tips and tricks from operating room to the internet environment with more than 1 billion users.13 The purpose of our editorial is to describe an educational IGTV microvascular surgery video case from both technological and surgical aspect.