Cosmetic Surgery: Water Gains in Treatments!

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Perhaps you read our previous post about Water-Assisted Liposuction in which high-pressure jets of water blast away the fat.
Time will only tell if the new liposuction catches on with plastic surgery patients, but good ol’ H2O is yet another ingredient in the latest form of an older facial rejuvenation treatment known as dermabrasion.
When dermabrasion first [...]

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Botox Marches On with New Uses

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Botox can be likened to the discovery of electricity or the Internet – as time goes on, more and more uses and applications for it are discovered.
Nonetheless, the first thing plastic surgery patients want to know about Botox is:  how long does it last? Answer. In most facial applications, about three months.
The most common use [...]

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Scarless Face Lift Using Endotines

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Plastic surgeons frequently use an instrument known as an endoscope to see and work under the patient’s skin.
With tiny, lighted cables so the surgeon can see the treatment area, an endoscope has equally as small tools that grasp, move and cut structures just under the patient’s skin.
In some models, the surgeon watches what’s happening on [...]

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Plastic Surgeons Often Donate their Skills

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Even after five to seven years of surgical training after medical school, many board-certified plastic surgeons want to continue to keep their surgical knowledge and skills current.
Many board certified surgeons are also humanitarians and simply want to share their gifts with others around the world who are in less fortunate circumstances and really, really need [...]

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Asian Double Eyelid Surgery

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A recent post at MarieClaire.com tossed Asian double eyelid surgery into an article about “extreme” plastic surgeries like:

A painful, expensive leg lengthening procedure
An operation reducing the size of the calf for a slimmer looking leg

Actually, the plastic surgery procedure to create a double eyelid is pretty standard and very popular in Asia.
Proving once again that [...]

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