Archive for September, 2009

Have you been sticking to a diet and exercise regimen and being successful? You might be finding that although you lose a lot of weight you are not happy with some areas where the fatty tissue is stubbornly remaining. Exercise helps in losing weight partly by speeding up the metabolism and partly by using up […]

On September 11, 2009, the FDA accepted a review application from Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC for premarket approval of Belotero® Balance. This is the start of the approval process for marketing a product in the U.S. Belotero® Balance Merz Pharmaceuticals is a German company and Belotero® Balance has already been approved in the U.K., Switzerland, Austria, […]

When we travel abroad and then return home to our own country, we assume that we’ll be allowed in. However, recently 23 women coming home to China were stopped by customs officials. On comparing the passport photos of these women with their live faces, the officials saw too much discrepancy. The China Daily reported this […]

In July of this year the American Society of Plastic Surgeons validated fat grafting as a way to do breast enlargement. It is a procedure where unwanted excess fat is taken from another body area and injected into the breasts to increase their size. Some areas where the fat is typically harvested are: Abdomen Hips […]

Sometimes a pair of twins grow up trying to be as unlike each other as possible, and other times they try to be indistinguishable. In the U.K. recently two identical twins, Jo and Kerry Burton, have been living duplicate lives. After spending childhood duplicating each other’s chickenpox, careers in the Brownies, and ballet lessons, they […]

BOTOX® is used by cosmetic surgeons to smooth out forehead wrinkles and frown lines. It is administered with an extremely thin needle directly into the muscle being treated. It prevents the brain from successfully sending messages to that muscle telling it to contract. When you cannot contract the frown muscles, you cannot frown. That keeps […]

In Framingham (about 20 miles from Boston, Massachusetts), there is a Brazilian community of about 14,000 immigrants. In late July of this year, the president of the Brazilian American Association in Framingham, Ilma Paixao, did a cable TV interview of a plastic surgeon who was visiting from Brazil. It was part of her plan to […]

If you would like to have breast augmentation, you currently have a choice between saline implants or silicone gel implants. Both are effective, safe, and popular. However some women prefer one over the other. Silicone gel implants are thought by many to look and feel more natural Saline implants are thought by some to be […]

Cosmetic surgery has become popular worldwide, as the risky business of medical tourism can attest. You can read about one woman’s story of her international cosmetic surgery in our blog of August 28 this year. That woman’s procedures were probably quite safe, as she stayed in each country long enough to fully recover, whereas medical […]