If Plastic Surgery Won’t Convince You, What Will?
from New York Times
When Petra Kalivodova, a 31-year-old nurse, was considering whether to renew her contract at a private health clinic here, special perks helped clinch the deal: free German lessons, five weeks of vacation, and a range of plastic-surgery options, including complimentary silicone-enhanced breasts.
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Most Malpractice Suits Have One Thing in Common: the Personality Factor
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
It surely comes as no surprise to any cosmetic surgeon that in the United States, physicians live and practice in a litigious society. What may be surprising, however, is the level of control that individual physicians actually have in whether or not they wind up at the receiving end of a medical malpractice suit.
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Going Under the Knife with Open Eyes
from The Globe and Mail
Camilla Carnell, thinking her eyes were too small, opted for a cosmetic surgery that is growing in popularity among Asians.
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A Novel Tool to Document Patients' Aesthetic Complaints May Help Thwart Litigation
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
Trinidad and Tobago-based plastic surgeon Victor Blackburn, M.A., M.B., B. Chir., F.R.C.S., was always somewhat perturbed, he says, when colleagues at plastic surgery conferences would pooh-pooh taking histories of their patients' cosmetic complaints. "Taking a pertinent history helps to establish rapport with the patient, and, obviously provides the surgeon with insight into the patient's personality and expectations of the outcome of surgery — all of which are recorded and are critical in both patient selection and surgical planning," he says.
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Revolutionizing Fat Transfer/ Fat Graft
The Tissu-Trans systems from Shippert Medical offer a simple, sterile, non-traumatic fat harvest with customizable reinjection volumes for every procedure (10cc, 60cc and MEGA 1500cc). Information and videos here.
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Lunchtime Laser Liposuction Results
from KHNL-TV
It has been one week since KHNL featured liposuction so advanced, patients can get the new procedure done over their lunch break, and go to work the next day. A patient who is among the first in Hawaii to try it shared her results.
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Surgeons Versed in Multiple Techniques Best Serve Patients Seeking Forehead Rejuvenation
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
While there are many options for correcting brow ptosis and wrinkling that vary with regard to invasiveness, surgeons who offer forehead rejuvenation should have all of these tools in their armamentarium so that they can optimally tailor the procedure to the individual patient's needs, says Rod J. Rohrich, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
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Colorado Doctor, First To Offer Water Assisted Liposuction
from KKTV.com
A southern Colorado doctor says she's performing cutting edge procedures, when it comes to cosmetic surgery. Dr. Rina Shinn, in Pueblo, says she's got a new way to get rid of the fat that's hard to eliminate. The new technique, water assisted liposuction, is for an old procedure, liposuction, and thought to possibly become the gold standard in body shaping.
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Never Say Never to a Botox Injection
from Edmonton Journal
For more than one generation of men, retiring into Clint Eastwood's face was an honour. Eastwood had earned those lines, wrinkles, creases, scars and sunspots riding steeds, shooting scoundrels and bedding damsels in the lonesome West. It's a rugged and soulful look, an outer projection of his wisdom.
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