It turns out plastic surgery really does make you look younger, one study has found — on average, in the case of one Canadian doctor’s patients, 7.2 years younger. Some plastic surgeons “tend to use the terms more youthful and more refreshed, but precise quantification of these attributes has remained elusive,” a team of cosmetic surgeons wrote in a study published Monday in the Archives of Facial Pl... (read more)
Upfront biases: I am a formally trained ENT surgeon with significant training in facial plastic surgery. I trained with two of the best facial plastic surgeons in the country (Ted Cook, MD and Tom Wang, MD) for 4 years. My views are skewed to side with what's best for the patient. Furthermore, my views are based on the fact that cosmetic surgery/treatments make up a big part of my practice. Obviously, those who agree with the opi... (read more)
The procedure was supposed to be simple — swap out a pair of leaking breast implants for a brand new set. But for Dinora Rodriguez, a 40-year-old stay-at-home mom from Los Angeles, this simple cosmetic "fix" was the start of a plastic surgery nightmare. "My breasts looked really bad," she says. "It looked like I had one big breast instead of two. And the pain was terrible." For more from this article, click the link below.
Liposuction patients are usually after one thing: a better-looking body. But a new study suggests the cosmetic procedure that removes fat from well-padded areas of the body may also reduce harmful fat circulating in the blood. Research to be presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Denver was aimed at measuring triglyceride levels in 229 people having liposuctio... (read more)
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