Ulthera is a new non-invasive skin tightening device. The idea seems promising: use intense focused ultrasonic energy to target tissue deep to the skin, heat and coagulate the tissue, thereby getting some tissue shrinkage and tightening. It’s had great press on the various TV talk shows. It is FDA approved – so we know it’s […]
This month, an expert group of physicians and surgeons has published their latest guidelines on preventing, diagnosing and treating blood clots – DVT’s and pulmonary emboli. It’s a massive report, known as AT9 – even the executive summary runs 39 pages. It can be found here. Why do we, as plastic surgeons, need to know this stuff? Because […]
The latest numbers in the American obesity epidemic were released in this month’s issue of JAMA. Here’s the one bit of good news: – American women, overall, aren’t getting any bigger than they were during the last study, which looked at the 1999-2008 data, but 35.8% of US women still fit the BMI-derived definitions for […]
Just this week, the FDA has given their approval to the marketing of a new laser from Cynosure called Cellulaze. Like the name suggests, it’s a surgical laser treatment for cellulite. Here’s how it works: With the help of local anesthesia, several small incisions are made near the area of cellulite. A laser fibre is inserted […]
IN THE UPCOMING ISSUE OF PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, DR. ROGER KHOURI AND ASSOCIATES GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH FAT TRANSFER TO THE BREAST FOR THE PURPOSES OF BREAST AUGMENTATION. THE BOTTOM LINE: AS LONG AS YOU USE THE BRAVA SYSTEM FOR SEVERAL WEEKS BEFOREHAND, FAT TRANSFER WORKS PRETTY WELL. IN THE […]
According to the Daily Mail newspaper (London), a 33-year-old woman was charged in December with international drug trafficking, after she was found carrying more than five and a half pounds of cocaine – with an estimated value of £250,000 – that had been molded inside some artificial breast and buttocks inserts (“falsies”). The woman, a […]
This month, in the ASJ, comes another study looking at the Botox versus Dysport battle. Patients are always wondering – “which one is best?”. Some patients swear they do better with one medication compared to the other.In this paper, a randomized, controlled study, 53 patients had Botox on one side of the face, and Dysport on the […]
There’s a lot of machines in the medical marketplace that claim to be “the answer” for non-surgical skin tightening. Many of them work…a little bit. But I wanted something that would give my patients real and measurable results. In addition, it had to be painless, have no side effects, and be FDA cleared. Now, I’m pleased to tell you […]
Did you ever wonder whether a surgery on Monday or Friday was riskier than one during the rest of the week, or whether surgery in July, when there are new interns on the wards in teaching hospitals, was riskier than a surgery in May? Well, a new study has analyzed this…and there’s no difference in […]
According to the Sun-Sentinel, there is a bill working its way through Tallahassee which will make some improvements to safety standards for office-based liposuction. Honestly, it’s about time! The bill would require liposuction of more than 1000 cc of fat to be done in surgery suites inspected by the state, and would require doctors to […]
