Plastic Surgery: - Weight Loss Surgery Halves Heart Risk

Weight Loss Surgery Halves Heart Risk
FOX News - 12 hours agoBy Jennifer Warner. Weight loss surgery may cut the risk of heart disease by nearly half among the extremely obese. A new study shows ...

Plastic Surgery: - 'Primetime' Airs First-Ever Face Transplant

'Primetime' Airs First-Ever Face Transplant
Entertainment Tonight Online - Primetime" acquired a French documentary that follows Isabelle's amazing medical journey, beginning the day she arrived at the facial surgery department at the hospital. The documentary features never-before-seen footage that was shot during the

Plastic Surgery: - Reprieve is reason to smile

Reprieve is reason to smile
Stockton Record, CA - 12 hours agoHis father, Joe Quichocho, knew Jovaughn was in pain but couldn't afford dental surgery, because sedation for a procedure requiring eight pulled teeth, four ...

Plastic Surgery: - Is Complying With A Cease And Desist An Automatic Admission Of ...

Is Complying With A Cease And Desist An Automatic Admission Of ...
Techdirt - 22 hours ago... In this case, that's been filed by the folks at Public Citizen, the victim of a botched Lasik surgery put up a website criticizing the doctors who performed it ...

Plastic Surgery: - Is Complying With A Cease And Desist An Automatic Admission Of ...

Is Complying With A Cease And Desist An Automatic Admission Of ...
Techdirt - 8 hours ago... In this case, that's been filed by the folks at Public Citizen, the victim of a botched Lasik surgery put up a website criticizing the doctors who performed it ...

Plastic Surgery: - Baby boy born with extra arm

Baby boy born with extra arm
KTRK - In both cases, there was no question about which arm had to be removed. "The third arm was not as developed, so it was a fairly easy decision to amputate," said Hollier, co-director of the cranial facial surgery program at Texas Children's Hospital

Treatment is changing AIDS epidemic
Quad-Cities Times - He got the disease from a blood transfusion during facial surgery in high school. His mom and dad traveled to their son s bedside. He came home to Davenport to die. When he got here, Plumb put his speaking abilities to work, talking at area schools

Plastic Surgery: - Career Politicians Stay With Different Job Titles

Career Politicians Stay With Different Job Titles
KGO - Would you want your orthopedic surgeon to have to rotate out of orthopedics after six years and go to facial surgery? It's the same thing. Why would you 'de-limit' experience." >> Video On Demand: Build Your Own Newscast Copyright 2006, ABC7/KGO-TV/DT

Plastic Surgery: - FACE SURGERY AFTER KNIFE HORROR

FACE SURGERY AFTER KNIFE HORROR
This is Dorset - A MAN has undergone emergency facial surgery after a knife incident in a garden near his home. Roger Thorne, aged 36, was working in the garden when the incident happened shortly before 1pm on Wednesday. Neighbours heard his desperate cries for help

Houston Hospital doctors perform facial surgery on Kenyan boy
KTVB - A young boy, abandoned in his home country of Nairobi and attacked by a dog, has undergone reconstructive surgery on his face at a Houston Hospital. Daniel, 4, is like most kids his age - curious and full of energy. But there's one glaring difference

Plastic Surgery: - The first day of the rest of her year: Olson takes over Miss North

The first day of the rest of her year: Olson takes over Miss North
Williston Daily Herald - A 2005 graduate of Concordia college, Olson's scholastic ambitions include obtaining a doctorate degree in dental surgery. She has already been accepted as an alternate at Creighton University Dental School. If she finds out that she will get in this

Plastic Surgery: - 1m a year being paid out for bungled cosmetic operations (THE TIMES)

1m a year being paid out for bungled cosmetic operations (THE TIMES)
Peninsula - Two thirds of the 250 cosmetic surgery negligence claims it settled in that time related to breast and facial surgery. Liposuction and abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) were also involved. Settlements varied from 200 to 305,000. Only about 30 per cent

Journey of healing
Longmont FYI - Then the financial considerations of donating the facial surgery on top of discounting Darla s heart and lung repair halted plans at Children s. I was about ready to take her in there, plop her down and say, Put it on the credit card

Plastic Surgery: - Depression Confession

Depression Confession
Nation - Every other person in the country is on Prozac, in a self-help group or in therapy; the media cover the latest treatments the way they cover new diet pills or cosmetic surgery techniques; "I'm depressed" is easily one of the top ten everyday

Plastic Surgery: - LL Cool J Denies Using Steroids And Surgery To Stay Fit

LL Cool J Denies Using Steroids And Surgery To Stay Fit
Post Chronicle - 11 hours agoOld-school rapper LL Cool J has dismissed reports he has undergone cosmetic surgery and is using steroids to keep his body fit as he continues to grow older ...

Plastic Surgery: - Behind the Mask: After Face Transplant Surgery

Behind the Mask: After Face Transplant Surgery
ABC News - Hosted by Barbara Walters, the "Primetime" special will include the ABC News-acquired French documentary that follows Isabelle's intimate experience, beginning the day she arrives at the facial surgery department at University Hospital in Amiens. The

Plastic Surgery: - Focus on Independence Gives Sight to Quadriplegics

Focus on Independence Gives Sight to Quadriplegics
PR Web (press release), WA - 11 hours ago... years ago in Maryland. She underwent LASIK surgery at Maloney Vision Institute in Los Angeles in May. LASIK surgeons from around ...

There is no cause for alarm over contact lenses
Daily Nation (subscription), Kenya - 21 hours ago... prescriptions. Lasik surgery is the latest technique to treat refractive errors like myopia, but may be suitable for all patients. ...

Plastic Surgery: - Short Legs: How to Make the Most of Them

Short Legs: How to Make the Most of Them
CRI, China - 6 hours ago... These, like lovely breasts, are a reason to hate anyone who owns them, especially as cosmetic surgery is yet to perfect a method of increasing the inside leg ...

More evidence breast implants pose no cancer risk
Reuters.uk, UK - 12 hours ago... study, the current one also found that women with implants had a lower risk of breast cancer than those who underwent other types of cosmetic surgery in years ...

Plastic Surgery: - Ascot Diary

Ascot Diary
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 23 hours agoBy Marcus Armytage. Frankie Dettori, we can exclusively reveal, is currently undergoing extensive cosmetic surgery. Not the jockey ...

Plastic Surgery: - Local Medical Writer Receives Two Awards for Excellence in Medical ...

Local Medical Writer Receives Two Awards for Excellence in Medical ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 20 hours ago... The "Expert Panel on Weight Loss Surgery" (Obes Res. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical ...

Plastic Surgery: - Politicians warm up

Politicians warm up
Anchorage Daily News - Nancy Murkowski will likely step into that role sometime this week, after recovering from dental surgery, Murkowski said Tuesday at an Anchorage bill signing. Huh? It's true, said the couple's daughter, Carol Sturgulewski. "They are very much a team."

Plastic Surgery: - Facing the ethics of ultimate transplant

Facing the ethics of ultimate transplant
Cambridge Evening News, UK - 7 hours ago... can achieve. In recent years the term has come to be used almost interchangeably with "cosmetic surgery" to many people. A survey ...

Plastic Surgery: - Uganda : Medical Council warns KIU over courses

Uganda : Medical Council warns KIU over courses
African News Dimension, South Africa - 3 hours ago... The Council is the regulatory body that authorises universities to start programmes of that nature. Until the curriculum of dental surgery and bachelor of ...

Plastic Surgery: - Cynthia Rowland Leading The Crusade To Help Baby Boomers Look ...

Cynthia Rowland Leading The Crusade To Help Baby Boomers Look ...
PR Web (press release), WA - 32 minutes ago... security because these shows do not offer the viewer the whole story of risks and complications associated with invasive procedures such as cosmetic surgery. ...

Plastic Surgery: - More nips and tucks for men on the job

More nips and tucks for men on the job
MSNBC - NEW YORK - When Dave Mahler got liposuction, his co-workers complimented him, even though many weren t quite sure what was different about him. It s a mental thing that I feel better, said Mahler, a Bellmore, New York-based designer and

Plastic Surgery: - Come for the surgery, stay for the sites

Come for the surgery, stay for the sites
Toronto Star, Canada - 20 hours ago... Commonly requested services include hip and knee replacements, cosmetic surgery, cardiac procedures, infertility treatments and dentistry. ...

Bikini-clad dash earns rugby streaker cash
Independent on Saturday (subscription), South Africa - 20 hours ago... the Waikato Times that he should get any proceeds from the sale as he had paid for Lewis's bikini, as well as her breast enhancement and other cosmetic surgery ...

Plastic Surgery: - HEALTH CALENDAR, HEALTH CALENDAR

HEALTH CALENDAR, HEALTH CALENDAR
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Plastic Surgery: - Operation Smile

Operation Smile
Teen Ink - 21 hours ago... Magee and his wife, nurse and clinical social worker Kathy Magee, is a not-for-profit organization that performs life-altering facial surgery for children. ...

FACE SURGERY AFTER KNIFE HORROR
Dorset Echo, UK - 3 hours agoA MAN has undergone emergency facial surgery after a knife incident in a garden near his home. Roger Thorne, aged 36, was working ...

Plastic Surgery: - See right through it

See right through it
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 14 hours ago... He has built a fish tank in a dental surgery, a glass brick tunnel into a restaurant and recently made a dividing wall in the entrance to a house. ...

Private surgery contracts reopen health-care debate
Oak Bay News, Canada - 21 hours ago... Operations slated for the private clinics include dental surgery, eye surgery, plastic surgery tonsillectomies, circumcisions and other procedures that don't ...

Fat Could Be 'Contoured' Away Without Surgery

UltraShape Device Being Tested
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Plastic surgeons are working on a way to trim body fat without making an incision, KMBC's Maria Antonia reported Monday.
The procedure is called contouring. Doctors place an ultrasound device on problem areas, such as the stomach or thighs, and aim energy waves at fat cells to destroy them. In Dallas, doctors have already tested contouring on people. Plastic surgeon Dr. John Burns told KMBC he has used the UltraShape device on American study subjects.
The machine is computerized and delivers a uniform ultrasound pulse over the treatment area, which lasts about 90 minutes.
The energy is aimed at the fat cells in a certain area. The released fat is then recycled by the body.
"A nonsurgical approach to remove the fat cells to prevent storage is an exciting capability, very exciting," Burns said.
Dr. Spencer Brown was hired by UltraShape critique the testing of contouring in Israel and London.
"One treatment in the abdomen in those countries reduced the circumference of the waist by about an inch," said Brown, who is the research director in the plastic surgery department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
"We are very careful. I am very careful in looking at technology that's genuine," Brown said.
Brown said the UltraShape device has been tested on about 60 people so far.
Brown expects his test results will be analyzed further while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers its approval. If approved, UltraShape might be available by 2006.
Last week, UltraShape presented contouring at a plastic surgery convention. Some doctors pointed out that one treatment of contouring doesn't remove as much fat as liposuction.
KMBC obtained before and after pictures of a person who underwent one treatment of contouring and showed the pictures to women who were exercising at New Lady Fitness in Leawood, Kan.
"It's too good to be true," one woman said.
"It looks somewhat better," said one woman working out.
"Oh yeah, I'd do that in the back of my legs!" an exerciser said, laughing.

from UltraShape.com

Cosmetic Surgery Will Use Stem Cells

Stem cell researchers have shown how cosmetic surgery, such as wrinkle removal and breast augmentation, might be improved with natural implants that keep their original size and shape better than synthetics.
Stem cell researchers have shown how cosmetic surgery, such as wrinkle removal and breast augmentation, might be improved with natural implants that keep their original size and shape better than synthetics.

Cosmetic surgery might be performed with stem-cell generated natural tissues instead of synthetic implants. Saline and silicone implants for breast augmentation may rupture, leak, and interfere with breast cancer detection on mammograms. Stem cell generated natural tissue implants should avoid these problems.

Reconstructive surgery to replace tissues lost to cancer or other disease could benefit from stem-cell generated natural implants that do not shrink or lose their shape. Studies have shown that conventional soft tissue implants can lose 40 percent to 60 percent of their volume over time. Examples are breast tissue reconstruction after breast cancer surgery and facial soft tissue reconstruction following cancer or trauma surgeries.

Natural implants often require separate surgical procedures from a healthy location of the patient's body to obtain tissue for constructing the implant. The stem-cell approach does not require extensive surgery because cells needed for the implant are obtained in a less invasive needle procedure.

Whitaker investigator Jeremy Mao, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois at Chicago presented his results at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., saying that a stem cell approach might eliminate the need for the additional surgery and may produce a long-lasting, shapely, and natural implant. The research will also be published in April in the journal Tissue Engineering.

Mao's research group started with a line of human stem cells taken from the bone marrow of a healthy, young volunteer. These mesenchymal stem cells can transform themselves into many different cell types under appropriate conditions, including those that form cartilage, bone, and fat. In this case, the stem cells were grown with substances that encouraged them to become fat-producing cells.

Cells from this culture were placed in a Food and Drug Administration-approved scaffold that mimics the natural environment in which fat cells grow in the body. The hydrogel scaffold can be molded into any shape or size. These cell seeded scaffolds were placed under the skin in eight laboratory mice. After four weeks, the implants were removed and examined.

The researchers found that the stem cells had differentiated into fat generating cells and the implant had retained both its original size and shape. Conventional implants begin to lose shape within a few weeks, so Mao's group was encouraged by the fact that their implants retained their original dimensions for a month.

These results demonstrate the potential of using such an approach in medical applications. But more, longer term studies will be needed and many questions remain to be answered. Further research is needed on the density of cells used in the culture, the rate at which the scaffold degrades, the relationship between the implant and existing host tissues, and whether any additional growth factors will be required to ensure that the implant develops a healthy and lasting blood supply.

"Nonetheless, the present approach represents another step toward an alternative tissue engineering approach for soft tissue augmentation and reconstruction," the researchers reported.

from http://www.toronto.fashion-monitor.com

Plastic Surgery:Beauty Injections

The whole country is going crazy about Botox and other similar procedures. A short doctor's visit makes us look younger, prettier and our self-esteem is lifted up almost instantaneously.
There are actually a few types of these beauty injections that use paralyzing agents such as Botox and fillers such as Restyline.
These injections are very safe treatment in the right hands; they can be dangerous in the wrong hands. There are cases in Mexico when the practitioner was a fake doctor and applied construction silicon to patients' bodies causing many health problems. Some doctors in the US were also using lower-grade Botox, causing harm to their patients. Do not look for bargains when it comes to your health; look for a qualified doctor to get these treatments
The procedures are simple. The nurse or doctor will prepare your skin and disinfect it, and in some cases, apply a numbing cream. Then the doctor will inject the solution and probably ask you to move certain muscles to distribute the substance in the appropriate areas. Then, he or she will clean again and you are ready to go.
Most treatments will leave your skin either swollen or irritated for a few minutes. In rare cases, the irritation or swelling may persist for a few days, but in most cases it takes only hours for it to dissipate.
Can something go bad?
There is always risk in any procedure. Some substances such as Botox have been around for many years with relatively safe results, but long term side effects are unknown, since there are no studies at this time.
If a substance applied to your skin has only a short-term effect and there is an esthetic problem, usually it does not last when the substance is not active any more. This is the reason why you should try temporary filler before you get permanent or longer-term filler on the face