As you probably know, the Democrat-led Congress is trying to put U.S. health care under government control and last week the House passed a bill in this direction. Now the Senate is working on their plan. The plan backed by the White House would put a five percent tax on cosmetic surgery.
With all the frantic spending this past year by Congress, the government needs more income. That means more taxes and higher taxes on everybody. This cosmetic surgery tax is estimated to raise about 5.8 billion dollars over ten years that would help to pay for the 849 billion dollars […]
Charity organizations are rightly upset at the moment over reports that one Trista Joy Lathem deceived them and obtained over $10,000 in donations for breast enlargement. Lathem had married this past April but her marriage was having problems. According to a police affidavit, she decided to tell her husband that she had cancer, in hopes that this would “bring them closer together”.
She shaved her head and communicated with acquaintances and local community leaders that she had lost her health insurance and needed to complete her chemotherapy. Various benefits were held to raise money for her, bringing in the $10,000 from […]
In the 1990s, not many plastic surgeons were promoting their practice on the Web, but Dr. Steven Denenberg blazed that trail. He noticed that of the few cosmetic surgery websites that were on the Web, none had any Before and After photos.
He launched his own site and added several hundred such photos to show viewers how he could change and improve a person’s appearance with each cosmetic surgery procedure. Such Before and After Galleries are now very popular, although not of equal quality. Our Before and After Photos are nicely organized by procedure and by gender.
New iPhone Application
Dr. Denenberg has […]
Doctors have been searching for the ideal grafting material to use in rhinoplasties and perhaps they have now found it. A person’s own cartilage has often been the best choice, but too often there is not enough of it, or it is too thin, or there may be a problem at the location where it is taken.
The ideal substance should be:
Readily available and in large amounts
Resistant to infection and to being absorbed by the body
Easily shaped and molded for each individual patient
Easily integrated into the patient’s facial tissue
Not likely to cause any injury or illness in the patient
A research team […]
We have all seen media photos of people like Michael Jackson who had too much cosmetic surgery, and nobody wants to look “fixed” or “done” after their cosmetic procedures. We just want to look more youthful, more attractive, or better proportioned, with no visible evidence of having had anything done to effect that improvement.
Looking Natural
If you choose a properly-qualified and experienced surgeon, you can expect to look natural afterwards. Part of achieving natural results is being a good candidate for the procedure you are having, and the best plastic surgeons screen their patients carefully. Dr. Rai will spend time with […]
In Melbourne, Australia, a three-year trial is beginning to test whether a cancer patient could grow new breasts after a mastectomy. This is the first time that such a hypothesis has been tested and only the second time that tissue engineering is done on a human being. It has been tried with pigs, which did grow new breasts in six weeks.
This experiment will implant stem cells from the woman’s own fatty tissue, and as they rapidly multiply, will shape them into a replica of the lost breast. The technique is called Neopec and if it is successful, may replace breast […]
A news item from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, reports that the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is urging the Department of Health to draw up a law to protect unsuspecting cosmetic surgeons from criminals on the run. There have been some cases where a wanted criminal has had cosmetic surgery done for a disguise, giving a false name to the surgeon.
The NBI Deputy Director, one Ruel Lasala, stated:
“Surgeons, doctors or medical staff become “instruments” of these unscrupulous hardened criminals to alter their faces to hide their identities as part of effort to avoid being caught by law […]
Recently there were two surveys done of Australian men asking if they would consider cosmetic surgery. One was done for the Victorian Cosmetic Institute in Melbourne, Victoria and those researchers found that one out of three men would consider it. The other was done by the University of Sydney and found that “lookism” is on the rise.
Lookism is causing men to feel that they “can reinvent themselves and there is no stigma attached anymore to having work done,” according to Dr Chan of the Victorian Cosmetic Institute. Men are more than twice as likely as women to have cosmetic surgery […]
On the south coast of Queensland is a beach called Surfer’s Paradise, bordered by big hotels Florida-style. Other beautiful surf beaches are nearby and a little north of this whole area, called the Gold Coast, the Barrier Reef begins.
The Gold Coast has become Australia’s “nip and tuck capital”, according to news reports. As this is a popular holiday area for tourists as well as Australians, one’s beach appearance is felt to be important and cosmetic surgery has flourished.
One woman in particular, one Pamela Noon, has done a lot to promote it. She produced advertisements and videos and set up an […]
Experiments have been done in using fat from elsewhere on the body to augment the breasts. Using liposuction, the fat is taken from places where it is unwanted, such as the abdomen, love handles, upper thighs or buttocks. This way of doing breast augmentation has caused concern that the grafted fat could interfere with mammograms, delay cancer diagnosis, or be absorbed by the body.
More recently, another way of potentially doing breast enlargement has been reported. It uses adult stem cells (not the controversial embryonic stem cells). Stem cells have the magical ability to transform themselves into other types of cell, […]
