Here is another one from the “Believe It or Not” Files, courtesy of the Austriantimeswebsite. Sounds like the Russian cat had a blepharoplasty and canthopexy…or would that be a “cat-o-pexy”? Crazy!! ********** Fury over cat’s plastic surgery Animal rights activists have criticised a “cruel” cat owner who put her pedigree puss through plastic surgery so she […]
The pieces of the puzzle regarding fat grafting for breast reconstruction and breast enhancement keep coming in, a little at a time. Here is a press release from ASPS, which summarizes a recent French study on mammography after the micro-droplet method of fat transfer to the breast, which was published in the recent issue of PRS. […]
Thanks to Ramona Bates, MD (blog link here) and StreetAnatomy.com for bringing this fabulously eye-catching poster about Breast Self-Examination (BSE) to my attention.
Linda Lu, a 21-year-old Valencia College student, received the Southeast’s first hand transplant March 12th at Emory University, in Atlanta. The operation was detailed in a press conference earlier this week. She lost her left hand at age 1 due to Kawasaki disease, a vascular condition that can restrict blood flow to extremities, resulting in […]
Here is a story that is certainly offbeat – a beauty-pageant obsessed mom is injecting her 8 year old daughter with Botox & fillers (that she buys online) with the hopes of making her a famous star. (link) According to the story: Kerry, 34, buys botox and fillers online and injects them into her daughter’s […]
On friday, the FDA approved a new drug, called Yervoy, that should help some people with very advanced cases of melanoma. The drug works in an interesting way – by revving up the body’s own immune system to fight the melanoma tumors. When melanomas are detected early – as a mole “gone bad” – they can […]
As reported in detail on CNN.com, the first whole face transplant in the U.S. was successfully performed at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital last week. The transplant recipient, a 28 year-old Texan named Dallas Wiens, had suffered devastating full facial burns following a high-voltage electrical accident in 2008. This left him blind and with a badly […]
I participate in a number of online question-and-answer boards about Plastic Surgery, including “Ask-a-Surgeon” from ASAPS and Realself.com Today, this question came up: Is smart lipo/laser lipo better than traditional liposuction? What credentials should I be looking for in my doctor if I was interested in this procedure? Here’s my answer: Getting good results in liposuction is […]
Our condolences, thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan. The search and rescue phase of this response is still underway with 15 international teams augmenting the Japanese resources. The American College of Surgeons sent out this handy reference page for news updates and aid organizations, which […]
Want to prevent 2 million complications of surgery, just in the United States alone? Have smokers quit smoking for at least a month prior to surgery. In the United States, approximately 8 to 10 million procedures requiring surgery and anesthesia are performed on cigarette smokers each year, out of the estimated 50 million that are […]
