California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has finally been persuaded to sign into law a requirement that before having any cosmetic surgery, a person must obtain medical clearance from another licensed physician. That must be done 30 days before having the cosmetic surgery.
Where did this come from? Apparently, the family of one Donda West, the deceased mother of one Kanye West, a “hip hop” performer, decided that West’s death should not be “in vain”. They persuaded an Assembly Member to help them get a law passed to prevent everyone else from doing what their mother had done:
Have cosmetic surgery despite having a […]
In 2002, one Daryl Strenke was helping his ex-girlfriend’s father with work on a new campground near the Polk County/Barron County line in Wisconsin. His ex-girlfriend, Sam Verby, was in her new trailer nearby. Strenke started yelling at her to come out and talk to him. She invited him into her trailer to talk.
He entered and from ten feet away fired his 12-gauge shotgun at her head, killing her. He then shot himself in the head and severely injured the lower part of his face. Doctors later restored some function and he can eat and speak, but he is disfigured […]
In Pretoria, South Africa, this week, the laws have been tightened on who can perform plastic surgery. Until now, there was a loophole in the law that allowed general practitioners to perform plastic surgery that they were not qualified to offer. There had been facelifts performed, and other cosmetic procedures, that lead to disastrous consequences.
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is now requiring that only those actually trained in plastic surgery be allowed to provide it. This category may include other specialists than plastic surgeons, such as eye surgeons. South Africa has a Medicines Control Council that issues […]
On October 2 there was a news report featuring one Petra Bonilla, a young woman in New York who wanted rhinoplasty. She saved up the surgery cost and had the procedure done to modify the way her nose tip hung down too much. However, when the bandages were removed she was appalled to find that the tip had simply been removed rather than recontoured.
A few months later, she decided to try again and this time she did more research into potential cosmetic surgeons. She found one who specialized in ethnic surgery and the results this time were more to her […]
Coming up on December 3, 2009 is the 15th World Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS) and it will be hosted by Delhi. There will be many thousands of plastic surgeons and physicians in related fields such as burn surgery and micro-surgery, all sharing ideas, test results, and new implements, for the benefit of the rest of us.
Cosmetic surgery has taken off in recent years in India. The Chairman of IPRAS, Rajeev B. Ahuja, says: “Peer pressure and advertisements promising ‘picture perfect’ looks after cosmetic surgery, drive most men and women to go under […]
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 more calories. When we do a regular gym workout we can build up the muscle tissue to good effect in many areas, such as in the arms or on the male chest.
But some areas tend to retain fat and this becomes frustrating when you are trying […]
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, and Russia. It is a dermal filler and is based on hyaluronic acid. At the Cosmetic Surgical Center, we offer several other dermal fillers based on hyaluronic acid: Restylane, Captique, and Hylaform.
Hyaluronic acid is a substance found naturally in the body and its great asset as […]
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 incident, saying that the women had gone to South Korea for facial cosmetic surgery. They ranged in age between 36 and 54. Some of the surgeries they had had were:
Rhinoplasty – to make their nose higher at the bridge
Blepharoplasty – to make their eyes look larger
Chin […]
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
Buttocks
Thighs
This is not a new procedure, as it was originally done in the late nineteenth century in Germany. It has also been used in the U.S. for adding fullness to facial areas such as the cheeks and lips.
It was first done for breast augmentation by a plastic surgeon here […]
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 have spent 13 years of their adulthood having the same cosmetic surgeries. They are 34 years of age now.
Their goal is to continue to look indistinguishable from each other and to that end they have spent 60,000 U.K. pounds on operations done by the same […]