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Your complete Guide to ImplantsPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Breast Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Jodi Thiesson explores the many and varied implants available for the whole body. Amost any part of the body can be filled to create balance and harmony. Often by adding to an area, it can affect the whole - a chin implant can align the face, a calf implant can achieve more shapely legs. Historically implants were used to corr...More... |
The Facelift With No Visible ScarsPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Beverly Hills plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Renato Calabria is pioneering the vertical facelift procedure that leaves no visible scars, reports Andrew Frost. Recent developments in plastic and reconstructive surgery by California-based Dr Renato Calabria have led to a new procedure for facelifts that leaves no visible s...More... |
Different Approaches to RhinoplastyPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Holly O'Neill examines two different approaches to rhinoplasty: the open & closed techniques. Rhinoplasty is still one of the most commonly performed procedures in plastic and cosmetic surgery. Within the category of rhinoplasty there are two commonly performed procedures: the open (external) and closed (internal) technique...More... |
Cosmetic Surgery: What You Need to KnowPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROFILES > Plastic Surgery Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine The most important decision you can make to ensure optimum results for any cosmetic procedure is the physician you choose. Los Angeles plastic surgical consultant Gail Foster Zanville presents some important factors to consider. I prefer to meet with patients before their initial consultation with a physician, so they are awar...More... |
Choosing an ImplantPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Breast Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Del Mar cosmetic surgeon Dr Maurice Sherman explains to Holly O'Neill why he prefers a pre-filled implant for breast augmentation. Until three years ago, saline breast implants remained basically unchanged since the 1970s. All implants were inserted deflated into the breast and then inflated through a valve with saline to the d...More... |
Advances in LiposuctionPosted Friday, September 7, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Body Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Andrew Frost looks at new liposuction techniques being pioneered by plastic & cosmetic surgeons. There was a time when liposuction procedures would be followed by months of bruising, pain and maybe irregular results such as dimples. Major improvements in techniques and technology have refined liposuction to the extent that ...More... |
Facial Contouring & Facial ImplantsPosted Thursday, September 6, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Cosmetic Surgery Magazine talked to facial plastic surgeon William Binder MD about how the combination of facial features, proportions and balance determine facial beauty. Whether consciously or subconsciously we are all sensitive to the shape and dimension of our own face and the faces of others. When the balance is pleasing, ...More... |
Youth Is Wasted On The YoungPosted Thursday, September 6, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Anti-Aging Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Cosmetic surgery is increasingly viewed as an option for maintaining self-esteem as we age, explains Michelle Kearney. As we get older time seems to be speeding up. Years fly past and suddenly when we look in the mirror we hardly recognize the person staring back at us.We still feel the same, think the same, and more often than...More... |
Healing Powers of Hyperbaric OxygenPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROFILES > Plastic Surgery Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Holly O'Neill spoke with Ralph Potkin MD about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and its benefits for cosmetic surgery patients. Healing of the body cannot take place without appropriate oxygen levels In the tissue. Many times after the body has incurred some trauma, oxygen cannot reach the damaged areas. This impairs the body's natura...More... |
Restore Self-ConfidencePosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Breast Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Holly O'Neill explains how breast reconstruction can restore hope and self-confidence after a mastectomy. Nearly 180,000 women in the USA will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Many will undergo a partial or total mastectomy. The 16ssof any body part is distressing. When it is closely linked with a woman's femininity a...More... |
Breast Implants: Past, Present, and FuturePosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Breast Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Plastic surgeon Marcel F. Daniels MD traces the history of breast implants and writes about their future. After a checkered past - consisting of liquid silicone injections and use of various implantable sponges - modern breast augmentation began with the development of the first silicone gel implants in the early 1960s.These we...More... |
Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Through the AgesPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROFILES > Plastic Surgery Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Plastic surgery specializes in the repair and reshaping of the body. Mardi Kennedy & Michelle Kearney delve into its origins. The word plastic comes from the Greek plastikos, meaning "able to be shaped or molded". Although nasal surgery was mentioned in Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the earliest known treatise on the su...More... |
Implant Gives "Natural" SlopePosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Breast Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine A new shape of implant gives more variety to breast enhancement, plastic and reconstructive surgeon Athleo Cambre MD explained to Sally Waddington. Have you ever considered getting a breast enhancement, but decided against it because of the often 'unnatural' shape of the implant? Well, the recent invention of an anatomical, or ...More... |
Liposuction for Breast ReductionPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Body Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Jennifer Barnes spoke with dermatologist Jeffrey Klein MD about the tumescent liposuction technique for female breast reduction. Excessively large breasts are a burden for many women who choose surgical reduction procedures for smaller breasts. But breast reduction surgery is a major operation that can leave scars or have compl...More... |
Could Less Be More?Posted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Body Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Liposuction uses vacuum-like pressure to draw fat out of the body. Cosmetic surgeon Michael V. Elam MD has found reducing the suction pressure can produce finer results, reports Jodi Thiessen. Liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure performed in America. Since its beginning surgeons have researched ways to re...More... |
Interplast: US Surgeons Helping the NeedyPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine While plastic and reconstructive surgery is advancing in leaps & bounds in the USA, there are countries where technology and expertise are sparse. Interplast is one organization of plastic surgeons that travels to these countries to share knowledge & help mainly children with deformities. Jodi Thiessen reports. Imagine ...More... |
The Importance of Your Initial ConsultationPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine The most important aspect of an initial consultation is the evaluation of the patient's problem in combination with an overall evaluation of the patient's face, explains dermatologist Karyn Grossman MD. In the initial patient consultation, it is crucial to ascertain what is unattractive to the patient and then educate them abou...More... |
The History of Hair TransplantsPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Hair Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine 25 years have seen many major advances in hair transplant techniques. Holly O'Neill charts the changes with L. Lee Bosley MD, who has been at the forefront of the innovations. 1963 Dr L. Lee Bosley began what was to be a pioneering role In the art and science of hair restoration. It was known hair along the side and back of th...More... |
Endoscopic Forehead Lift SurgeryPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Face Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine Facial plastic surgeon Gregory Keller MD describes how a revolutionary technique reduces wrinkles and corrects sad facial expression. The forehead and eyebrows are among the most expressive features of the face. They illustrate what the eyes are telling us and how we feel without saying a word. As we age, sagging muscles and sk...More... |
Creating DimplesPosted Wednesday, September 5, 2007 to PROCEDURES > Smile Posted by The Original Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery Magazine It is sometimes said people with dimples and clefts have been 'kissed by an angel'. Plastic surgeon Bernard Koire MD explains the process of adding cosmetic dimples. The Chinese consider dimples a sign of good luck, beauty and fertility He who marries a dimpled person will have happiness the rest of his married life. In Asian s...More... |