The Latest Options In Dermal Fillers
from Forbes
Unlike days of old, today, a range of dermal fillers can be injected into those crow's feet, marionette lines, thinning lips and furrows between the brows, taking years off the face--and all can be done during your lunch hour, with no invasive surgery and little recovery time. According to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, fillers like Restylane and Perlane have seen a 110 percent increase in procedures performed in the past three years. Botox, which doesn't fill wrinkles, but reduces the muscular contractions that cause them, has seen a 115 percent increase. Facelifts, on the other hand, have only seen a 20 percent increase in the same time period.
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New, Better, Less Downtime: Does All this Sound Familiar?
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
Last week, Dr. Joseph Niamtu picked up a respected laser journal and saw two well-written articles detailing nine cases of significant complications — any of which, in a given situation, could trigger the volatile combination of a litigious patient and a welcoming plaintiff attorney. With the advent of fractional laser resurfacing and the related hype by both industry and clinicians, most seasoned laser practitioners have been waiting for the first wave of complication reports.
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A New Way to Pay for Breast Implants
from The Las Vegas Sun
What Susan wanted was simple: She wanted her husband to come home from Iraq and she wanted breast implants. She couldn’t do much about the war — but the bigger breasts she couldn’t afford? She got them for free.
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Today's Swirling Midface Cosmetic Controversy-Liquid Facelifts
from Cosmetic Surgery Times
The "Liquid Facelift" is a term with huge appeal to today's cosmetic surgery candidate, with the promise of instantly improving the appearance of lines, wrinkles and sagging skin — without surgery — coming from every source that recommends injectable dermal filler technology. While these minimally invasive treatments are touted for their ability to "refill" the face's lost volume, some aesthetic practitioners fear there is the possibility of a misconstrued perception by some patients that these dermal fillers can lift the skin and soft tissue.
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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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Advances Being Made in Engineering of Injectable Soft Tissue Filler
from Modern Medicine
Fillers have become a mainstay in cosmetic and rejuvenation treatments in aesthetic medicine today. A recent study demonstrates that a novel tissue-engineered filler, developed using a combination of adipose stem cells (ASC) and micronized acellular dermal matrix (Alloderm), is showing promise for many cosmetic and medical indications. Its developers claim it offers a softer, more natural appearance and may raise the bar in terms of aesthetic outcomes in procedures utilizing dermal fillers.
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Cosmetic Surgery Numbers Sag, but Americans are Still Spending Billions On It
from OregonLive.com
As the sagging economy goes through a total makeover with a huge taxpayer co-pay, it has cooled a 10-year hot streak for cosmetic surgery. But the quest for eternal youth goes on. So does the urge to reduce, reshape, restore or -- a favorite buzzword on cosmetic surgery Web sites -- rejuvenate various body parts.
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Plastic Surgery Bill Passes
from The Toronto Sun
Ontario has passed legislation that provides more oversight of plastic surgery and other invasive procedures done outside hospitals, but regulations that permit on-site inspections won't be in place possibly for months.
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