Here’s an interesting story from NBC News. Seems that the FDA isn’t too happy about unapproved Botox coming across the northern border… For the consumer, the take-home message is this: if the price of the “Botox” you are getting seems too good to be true, maybe it isn’t really genuine, FDA-approved Botox, sourced from Allergan. […]
File this report under “news of the weird”…cocaine smuggled inside a breast implant. A Panamanian citizen travelling from Bogota, Colombia flew to Barcelona. But she wasn’t acting right, making security officers there suspicious that she might be carrying drugs either on her person or in her luggage. After all, Colombia is the source for 90% of the […]
Here’s a cool “infographic” from ASAPS about cosmetic surgery trends for men. In our practice, the most popular cosmetic surgical procedures are liposuction for the “muffin top” and abdomen, and blepharoplasty, particularly for the upper eyelid.
One of the “Holy Grail” topics in plastic surgery is the non-surgical removal of fat: in other words, no incisions, no anesthesia, and no instruments being inserted under the skin. This rules out regular liposuction, laser liposuction, tummy tucks and all the traditional methods. Recently, there are several FDA-approved methods that have taken America by […]
A moment of silence for the man who won a well-deserved Nobel prize for performing the very first kidney transplant, the renowned plastic surgeon Joseph Murray, MD, who passed away Monday, Nov. 26, after suffering a stroke at his home in Boston on Thanksgiving Day. He was 93. Dr. Murray performed the world’s first organ […]
If you study a youthful-looking face and compare it to its older counterpart, one of the things you’ll notice is that the younger face has fullness in the cheeks, and the older face doesn’t. The older face often loses volume – in the temples, in the cheeks, in the lips. And until recently, plastic surgeons have […]
A new study in the journal Lancet reports that adult women smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared to nonsmokers, and that quitting can virtually eliminate this increased risk of premature death. Furthermore, smoking throughout adulthood reduced the life span of women by roughly 11 years.Between 1996 and 2001, Dr. Richard Peto and his research […]
If you talk about plastic surgery for any length of time, you’ll probably hear about the importance of board certification. Why is this important? Board certification is the hallmark of a specialist. If you are a physician, and you are NOT board-certified, it means that you are not officially recognized as a specialist in any […]
Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning devices is associated with significantly increased risk for non-melanoma skin cancer, according to a new meta-analysis in the British Medical Journal. The analysis reviewed 12 studies with over 80,000 participants and 9300 cases of basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma, and combined the data, to look for trends. Overall, […]
When I hear television ads for skin care products that promise “younger, firmer skin in just 7 days”, I always cringe. It’s simply not possible. The only effect that can happen in just 7 days is that your skin is better moisturized. Well, the FDA has noticed this too, and recently warned L’Oreal / Lancome […]
