This last August I was pleasantly inundated with teachers wanting surgery before school goes back. It is always fun talking with them about how much time they need off. Kindergarten teachers are so busy chasing kids, they may need more time than a sixth grade teacher, whose children – hopefully –require less activity [...]
I would normally be upset at a surgeon sending out a press release bragging that they had done an extraordinary number of a procedure. But I feel differently HERE.
I first learned about doing scarless breast reduction by liposuction from Dr. Eugene Courtiss, while I was a surgery resident at Harvard. But it was [...]
If I got a dollar for every time I heard this story touted during this Great Recession of ours, I’d be a rich man now.
Not only is this story overblown, it is simply not true.
So why is the story out there? First, there is no industry to make money on [...]
I’m looking forward to going to Malaysia November 2009 to lecture on various aspects of breast augmentation. The faculty is awesome, and was put together by my friend Charles Randquist . He’s one of the best breast augmentation surgeons I know, and I really look forward to teaching and learning from him [...]
A saline implant with the feel of silicone? Hmm…
I’ve felt the implant. It is soft if so under filled that it flops over on itself. That can lead to folds and ripples, and perhaps even weakness and shell failure where the shells rub together. It certainly means that there is no [...]
I’m proud to be a co-author in what is the lead-article in the most prestigious plastic surgery journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Symmastia is when the breast implants are too close together, often lifting the skin off of the breast bone, so that the two breasts seem to join in the center, leading to [...]
Why can’t actors stick to acting and musicians focus on making music? Why must they speak authoritatively about that which they don’t know? What makes Cheryl Crow an authority on “Botox and stuff?” Sure, it can look bad if overdone by an unskilled doctor. But that shouldn’t condemn the product – [...]
I’ve heard of adventure tourism, and I’ve even heard of sex tourism. But “Cosmetic Toursim?” Going to countries known for their monkeys, lemurs, and primitiveness of their medical care for elective surgery? You’ve gotta be kidding! Unfortunately, I’m not.
While plastic and cosmetic surgeons in the United States and the UK are [...]
My google alerts seem to go off every week with a story about the increase in “moob” surgery in the UK. Two things strike me about this. First, is the term “moobs.” I think it is horrible! But then again, from the country that brought us the “boot,” “bonnet”, and “wanker,” [...]
This product has proved to me that even as a plastic surgeon, how stupid men are. I would have never guessed that women think so much about their eyelashes, but this stuff is flying off the shelves in my office, and is already a multi-million dollar product for Allergan. I have not yet [...]
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