Human Body Odor Etiology, Treatment, and Related Factors

Strong body odor is a condition for which, until now, there have been few treatment methods. The Japanese authors, encouraged by the willingness of Oriental patients to undergo radical treatment, have developed the subcutaneous tissue shaving method, which eliminates the condition in a very short period of time without ugly scarring. The book Human Body Odor not only introduces the completely new subcutaneous tissue shaving method, it also questions conventional theories on the hair cycle itself and throws a new hypothesis about the process of hair generation and regeneration into the scientific arena. This could even lead in the future to a formula for retarding hair loss! Developed over the past twenty years, the authors' new surgical method for the radical treatment of bromidrosis represents a landmark in cosmetic surgery and dermatology!

1. Introduction.- 2. Skin Structure and Bromidrosis-Related Physiology.- 3. Mechanisms of Odor Development in Bromidrosis.- 4. Relationship Between Hyperhidrosis and Bromidrosis.- 5. Relationship Between Cerumen and Bromidrosis.- 6. Differences Between Bromidrosis and Nonbromidrosis Patients.- 7. Relationship Between Bromidrosis and Sense of Smell.- 8. Profiles of Bromidrosis Patients in Japan.- 9. Body Odors and Associated Diseases and Disorders.- 10. Body Odor as a Psychosomatic Disorder.- 11. Body Odor as Delusion.- 12. Treatments for Palmar, Foot, and Genital Hyperhidrosis and Bromidrosis.- 13. Pharmaceutical and Physical Treatment Procedures for Axillary Bromidrosis.- 14. Surgical Procedures.- 15. The Inaba Method.- 16. The Question of Hair Regeneration.- Postscript.- References.