You’ve heard about stem-cell enhanced fat grafts for rejuvenating the face and the hands…but here’s a new & very cool idea: stem cells to fix an ailing heart. Here’s the concept: Do some liposuction, and isolate out the small percentage of fat-derived stem cells from the rest of the fat enzymatically. Take these stem cells, and inject […]
Ask anybody what they worry about when they are thinking of having surgery, and I’m willing to bet that answers like “I’m worried that I’ll be in pain or be nauseated” are near the top of the list. What if I told you that, with improved medications prior to surgery, we could make this a […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked that propoxyphene, (brand names Darvon and Darvocet) be removed from the US market. The decision will also affect generic manufacturers and the makers of propoxyphene-containing products. At a press conference last week, Dr Gerald Dal Pan, director of the FDA’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, said “For the first […]
While it seems hard to imagine today, back before the early 1980’s, plastic surgeons didn’t really have any reliable injectable products to use for wrinkle correction or lip enhancement. When Zyplast and Zyderm arrived in the early 80’s, a new generation of of non-surgical corrections via injectable fillers became possible. These bovine-collagen fillers weren’t by any means perfect – […]
1. The new e-book “Plastic surgery 101: What to know before your consultation” is now completed and available. Yay! It will be a free download for patients that schedule a consultation, and I hope everyone will find this guidebook to be educational in nature. If our established patients would also like to get a copy, […]
Do you have a fairly minor shape problem with your nose, but don’t care for the idea of a complex rhinoplasty procedure? Well, here’s an option for you to correct it, without the fuss of surgery. Called a “non-surgical rhinoplasty”, the technique essentially uses filler agents like Restylane, Juvederm or Radiesse to disguise the less […]
Answer: Maybe. Lithera, Inc. – a privately held pharmaceutical research group, recently presented some exciting results of a randomized, double-blinded study of their new injectable lipolysis drug, called “LIPO102″ at the ASDS meeting. In the study, volunteers were injected weekly in 22 locations in the abdomen and flanks with the drug, over 8 weeks. On average, the study […]
This week in Orange County, California, the “Botox Bandit” was sentenced to five years in prison for committing multiple burglaries, fraud and identity theft against several Orange County businesses. The California woman got her nickname after using fraudulent checks to pay for more than $3,000 worth of Botox treatments, in addition to a string of […]
The FDA has approved ceftaroline fosamil (Teflaro), an injectable cephalosporin antibiotic, to treat adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) and acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). “These are serious and potentially life-threatening infections for which new treatment options are needed,” said Edward Cox, MD, of the FDA’s Center for […]
Macrolane is an injectable hyaluronic gel product from Q-Med, the makers of Restylane, which is available in Europe, but not in North America yet. Over there, Macrolane has been tried for body contouring applications, including breast augmentation – hence the catch-phrase “boob jab” for an injection of Macrolane to the breast. In this month’s Plastic and Reconstructive […]
