Cosmetic Surgery News
Cosmetic plastic surgery continues to make news worldwide. There are no better interpreters of such news reports than Drs. Body and Face who tell what the headlines mean to potential patients.
Dr. Body is the eminent Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon Stuart Linder, M.D.while the equally imminent Beverly Hills board-certified facial plastic surgeon, Robert Kotler, M.D., joins the discussion. Both scan consumer and professional cosmetic plastic surgery publications to help patients – and their professional peers – understand the importance of new findings about the rejuvenation arts.
Here is their third such offering about what’s behind the headlines in cosmetic surgery news.
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News item: Palm Bay, Florida, woman wins $8,000 breast augmentation in the radio contest, ‘Bangin’ Bikini Boobs.’ (Read more about the plastic surgery radio contest.)
Dr. Body (Dr. Linder): Professional ethics rule out plastic surgeons doing surgery on the winner of a contest. Board-certified plastic surgeons know they will be censored or suffer other penalties.
Dr. Face (Dr. Kotler): How can consumers use that news?
Dr. Body: They can take it for granted that a lesser trained, lesser experienced surgeon may be performing the actual breast augmentation. Board-certified plastic surgeons – who are the most capable –must stay away from contests. Thus, anybody who wins a cosmetic surgeon procedure in a contest also loses, in a sense, even if they have won. Plus, surgery may not be right for that particular person for any number of reasons.
News item: Dissolving Nasal Implant Aids in Nose Surgery in Austria. A resorbable plate implanted inside the noses of people with internal nasal problems – including deviated septums – appear to have improved outcomes. (Read more about this new type of nose job surgery.)
Dr. Linder: You’ve done over 4,000 nose surgeries, doctor; do you think this is something that may come to America? So many people have cosmetic and breathing trouble due to a deviated septum.
Dr. Kotler: I had a nose revision patient last week who had one of these dissolvable plates implanted in his nose by another surgeon overseas to create more support for his septum. But the plate did not dissolve and was causing problems. The downside to this surgery: the septum is surgically separated from the nose, the little plate is affixed and then the septum is placed back inside the nose. It’s bench surgery, if you will. But any structure taken from the body is, by definition, dead. It may or may not become live again. Clinical trials are going on overseas but it may be a great while before we see the technique used in the United States.
News item: Plastic surgeons use an endoscope for the male breast reduction surgery. (Read more about the gynecomastia surgery technique.)
Dr. Linder: Male breast reduction surgery requires taking out an extremely tough ring of fibrous breast tissue that sits just under the man’s nipples and makes his breasts stick out further. That tissue is too tough to liposuction. An endoscope is a lighted instrument inserted under the skin through what we call a ‘stab wound’ that is no bigger around than a #2 pencil. But it requires a longer incision to take out the fibrous breast tissue. I don’t see how it can be done well, using a thin liposuction tube.
Let me give you a for-instance:
If you have just had a meal, and have a sensitive stomach, you may want to skip this picture, but I just added to my blog, a close-up picture of the tough breast tissue being removed from a 24-year-old man – and professional model – in a recent male breast reduction surgery. (Look at the gynecomastia surgery.)
Dr. Face: Sometimes, I simply give up on the news. If some of today’s reporters were working in the Middle East 2000 years ago and had to cover David and Goliath, the headline would have read: “CRIME KILLS BELOVED CHAMPION….Psychologist Questions Influence of Rock.”
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View some revision rhinoplasty before and after pictures.
Look at some breast augmentation revision before and after pictures.
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