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Botox passing rebates onto consumers, rolls out limited time $50 to $100 back

Ever noticed a doctor advertise they’re a Botox "platinum plus" or "diamond" provider? This distinction has nothing to do with Botox skills, and everything to do with buying and selling Botox to consumers.
Doctors achieve status with Allergan by getting points for every Botox vial they purchase. The levels range from "silver" all the way up [...]

Will Your Botaxes Pay for Health Care Reform?

To fund new health-care initiatives, rumors abound that US Senators are considering a tax on elective cosmetic procedures like Botox. Call them the "Botaxes" or "vanity taxes," as these revenue generators were called in the past.
Attempts by state legislatures to tax cosmetic surgery to subsidize health programs and close budget gaps are relatively few. In [...]

Prevent breast cancer, get skin cancer?

Living in the cloudy Pacific Northwest lends to plenty of concern about vitamin D deficiency.  Many take Vitamin D supplements or mega-dose shots as a growing body of research shows Vitamin D deficiency linked to cancer and a host of other ailments.
The tanning industry (think: tanning booth owners) smells opportunity, and has jumped on the [...]

5 cosmetic surgery consultation tips: success is no secret

Guest post about cosmetic surgery consultations by board-certified plastic surgeon Robert Singer, MD, the Facility Director and Surgeon at the Singer Surgery Centre in La Jolla, California.  Dr. Singer has published over 150 publications or national presentations at national and international surgical meetings. He is a member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic [...]

Botox "confessions" becoming a thing of the past

60 years ago, before we had cosmetic procedures like Botox, women wouldn’t dream of openly discussing the latest beauty treatment: hair coloring.
That changed with the runaway success of home hair coloring kits:
In 1950 only seven out of every one hundred women colored their hair…In 1956, however, the introduction of a dyeing product called Miss Clairol [...]

13 cosmetic surgery myths

Guest post on cosmetic surgery myths by Dallas board-certified plastic surgeons Dr. Rod Rohrich and Dr. Jeffrey Kenkel.  Dr. Rohrich is the Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Kenkel is Professor and Vice Chairman. 

1. Myth: The “new” Botox – Dysport – is better and lasts longer.
Reality: The [...]

Tennis star Simona Halep seeks breast reduction: Is 17 too young?

17-year-old Romanian tennis star Simona Halep, who won the junior French Open last year, has announced that she will have a breast reduction later this year.
Halep says her 34DD’s are hindering her game and that she’d like to carry less weight on the tennis court.
Halep told ProSport.ro in this nearly incoherent translation, "(My breasts) inconvenience [...]

The rise (and fall) of the muffin top

The rise
They might not admit it exactly, but Aussies brought the rest of the world the “muffin top." The Oz sitcom "Kath and Kim" is cited as the source of the term that now refers to the roll of fat that overflows out of the top of low-cut or too-tight jeans (and recently, shoe overflow!)
Many [...]

Benefits of a Non-Surgical Nose Job

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Getting a nose job might be a tough decision for those who don’t have the courage to through a surgical procedure. Some people are just not at home with incisions and this might probably the main factor stopping them from getting any procedure at all no matter how they [...]

Lipo technique promises quick recovery

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A new kind of liposuction promises to provide a better way of sculpting the body using heat.
The procedure is called Smart Lipo. It is designed to provide less trauma to the body and offer overall quicker healing time.
Patients who have undergone the procedure said that they did not like [...]

Discovery Health Pulls Plastic Surgery Show

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Due to the controversy that the death of Donda West is creating, the Discovery Health cable network has pulled the series “Plastic Surgery: Before and After" from its lineup. This move followed when the host of the aforementioned show performed cosmetic surgery on the mother of [...]

Plastic surgery is not ‘just a tummy tuck’

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Plastic surgery is always risky. This is what many of us have learned upon the death of Kanye West’s mom, Donda. Her death is a reminder that going under the knife under anesthesia can be fatal.
Donda West went through a tummy tuck and breast reduction surgery. Reports said [...]

New cosmetic surgery rules

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In lieu of the current scenario where general practitioners perform cosmetic surgery operations, the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario, Canada, approved two regulatory changes just recently in order to address the issue at hand. 
One of the new rules to be implemented requires doctors to be formally [...]

Dr. Moore – Cosmetic Nose Surgeon

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One of America’s best cosmetic nose surgeons, Dr. Moore, shares his expertise in rhinoplasty surgery. In a press release he made for American Chronicle, Dr. Moore stressed that rhinoplasty is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures out there that can be performed in a surgeon’s office as an outpatient [...]

Plump up deflating skin

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It is common notion to attribute wrinkles to the effects of gravity. However, as doctors were doing animal research, they found out that the bigger culprit is loss of volume under the skin of the face. This means that our faces look older not so much because they [...]

Dr. Alan Gold – New President of ASAPS

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Dr. Alan H. Gold, a New York plastic surgeon, is the new president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). The Society is the leading national organization of board-certified plastic surgeons specializing in cosmetic surgery of the face and body. ASAPS elected its new set of officers on May [...]

Local doctor inspires celebrity plastic surgeon

Garth Fisher, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a known celebrity plastic surgeon. Before he went into the field of medicine, Fisher used to hope to become an architect someday. However, an encounter with Dr. John McRae, when the latter asked him to watch a gallbladder surgery, turned everything around.
In a recent letter to McRae, Fisher writes, [...]

Botox parties may not be safe

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Figures from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) reveal that there were almost 2.8 million Botox procedures performed in 2007. Botox has been the most popular cosmetic procedure since 2000. In the last five years, the number of Botox procedures performed has increased by 82%.
And because of this [...]

Plastic Surgery Summer Fashion Show

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The very first plastic surgery summer fashion show was held last June 12, 2008 in Long Island, New York. The fashion show was graced by the extreme makeover patients of the New York area doctors. This, I believe, was conducted in order to promote the plastic surgery awareness in [...]

Laser surgery for treating wrinkles

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These days, treating wrinkles has never been this easy. Before, a traditional facelift surgery is the ultimate answer to major lines, crows’ feet and brown spots. But now, there are a lot of options to choose from.
Botox treatment and injectable fillers are just few of the new methods employed [...]