Sugar Helps Reduce Nausea Before Surgery Yes, it helps the medicine go down, according to the old song. But it turns out that a little sugar – or more properly dextrose in the intravenous fluid – may help to reduce the chance of perioperative nausea and vomiting in surgery patients, and reduces the need for […]
Hot off the press….I just spoke with our Allergan reps: we will be one of the select few practices in Florida to offer this unbeatable combo bargain. Buy Latisse (Allergan’s eyelash growing treatment) for only $99 per box (regularly $120) and receive a rebate of $50 on a Botox treatment performed before the end of November, with the manufacturer’s […]
Sometimes marketing hype gets way ahead of the science. That’s certainly the way it seems to have been with the current generation of laser-assisted liposuction devices. Promises of skin tightening have been made by most of the manufacturers of these devices (SmartLipo and others) – with very little science to back up the claims. I […]
Here’s an interesting new finding for people struggling with their weight, as reported on BBC News (link), and published in the latest issue of the medical journal The Lancet: in a randomized, controlled study, the injectable diabetes treatment Victoza(liraglutide) helped overweight people lose significantly more weight than prescription Xenical, which is one of the leading weight-loss medications. […]
Artefill (Now called Bellafill), the permanent injectable filler, is returning to the U.S. market. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of the new company, Suneva Medical, that has purchased all the production facilities and intellectual property of Artes Medical, the now-defunct owners of the Artefill brand. Suneva Medical has now had […]
Developed at Massachusetts General Hospital, Zeltiq is a novel fat melting device, which uses the application of controlled cooling to melt fat non-surgically. The idea, known as cryolipolysis, takes advantage of the finding that fat cells freeze before skin cells do. Thus, if the temperature of the tissues can be lowered to just the right point, […]
About a year or two ago, a new type of LED device started appearing at the various plastic surgery meetings. It was suggested that certain frequencies (colors) of light could have beneficial properties on the skin, through a theory known as photomodulation. There was no heat, no pain, no downtime, no complications… Sitting under a bank […]
A patient asked me the other day about whether MRI scans could be used instead of mammograms, as a more high-tech way to screen for breast cancer. By happenstance, there is a major review article on breast cancer imaging and treatment in the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Here are […]
Just as a tummy tuck can really help people who have a lot of loose skin on their abdomen, a lower body lift is the corresponding operation for people that have significant amounts of excess skin on their lateral (outside) thighs or buttocks. It tightens the lax skin over the “saddlebag” area and buttock by removing the […]
You might need a breast lift (mastopexy) if one or more of these ten reasons sounds familiar to you: 1. You prefer the breast shape you get when you lift your breasts upwards with your hands. 2. You want your breasts to be “perkier”. 3. Your breast size is good, but they are “too low”. 4. When […]
