From the FDA website… ******* It’s a tempting premise: Get a series of drug injections and see pockets of fat on your body go away for good. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers about false and misleading claims being made about products used in lipodissolve, and about other misbranding of these […]
There’s a good review article on the risk of blood clotting problems known as “VTE’s” and their relationship to abdominoplasty surgery in this months issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. VTE is the abbreviation for venous thrombo-embolism, and it includes such problems as deep vein thrombosis of the leg and pulmonary embolism.Although this topic may sound […]
In this report from ABC News (link), the Lifestyle Lift organization has been fined $300,000 for deceptive advertising practices. Apparently, Lifestyle has been having their employees write gushingly positive comments about the Lifestyle facelift procedure on various internet forums and chat rooms, when these people never had the procedure, and certainly weren’t non-biased, independent reports. More […]
Apparently, Diprivan has been found at the former home of the late Michael Jackson. This story is becoming more tragic by the day. Diprivan, also known generically as propofol, is a powerful intravenous anesthestic agent. In the right hands, it is a useful drug, permitting anesthesia with a low incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting. […]
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, the Thread Lift was a much-hyped procedure in which a special type of barbed suture would be placed under the skin, to draw the loose facial tissue upward. The idea was to get a facelift-like lift, without actually doing a real facelift. It sounded so […]
One of the hallmarks of unfortunate plastic surgery in many celebrity photos is the overdone lip augmentation. The lips in these photos generally appear overstuffed, like two tubes, or two sausages lying side by side. The real reason that these results are bad is that the idea of creating a beautiful normal lip has gone out the window! […]
As we’ve discussed earlier, Botox injections are the most popular cosmetic procedure overall in the U.S. But Botox is expensive – and Allergan, the manufacturer, has been steadily raising their prices each year. This has created a black market for Botox, with counterfeit and imitation Botox knock-offs. These imitations are not FDA-approved, and vary widely […]
Over the last few months, I have seen an alarming increase in the number of patients that come in for a second opinion about poorly-performed liposuction (done elsewhere, I might add.) All of these casse have been performed with new high-tech liposuction machines, either laser-assisted (like the SmartLipo) or ultrasonic (like the VASER). I’ve seen […]
