| When Facelifts Go Wrong: Stanford Expert Counsels Plastic Surgeons On Dealing With Unhappy Patients Watch for the red flags: the patient who pulls out a photo of Tom Cruise and says he wants to look just like that, or the perfectionist who comes to the initial interview with each hair in place, makeup just so. There's the price haggler, and the multiple-surgeon shopper and then the paranoid personality. medicalnewstoday.com |
Paraplegic Receives Rare Nerve Transplant To Relieve Life-Altering Pressure Ulcers The Plastic Surgery Center today announced that in a highly rare procedure, a paraplegic received a nerve grafting to relieve life-altering posterior pressure ulcers. The surgery was performed by a New Jersey medical team under the direction of Dr. Andrew Elkwood. World-renowned in the field of nerve transplantation, Dr. Elkwood utilized his expertise in a way that can be life-altering for paraplegics worldwide whose lives are subjugated by acute posterior sores. medicalnewstoday.com |
ASPS Twins Study Finds Environmental Factors Trump Genetics In Facial Aging Your mother's wrinkles - or lack there of, may not be the best predictor of how you'll age. In fact, a new study claims just the opposite. The study, involving identical twins, suggests that despite genetic make-up, certain environmental factors can add years to a person's perceived age. medicalnewstoday.com |
Auto-circler Device (Tercan Device) For Marking A Vertical Scar Mammaplasty It is known that the desired shape and position of the nipple-areola complex may be difficult to achieve in vertical-scar reduction mammaplasty. The marking of a mosque-shaped areolar pattern varies from one surgeon to another, and therefore, periareolar trimming or resection may be inevitable with the use of such technique. We have developed a device to standardize the periareolar marking, and reduce the irregularity of the periareolar region. medicalnewstoday.com |
Shiseido Buys Manufacturer of Cosmetics Shiseido will gain a major player in the United States that sells products in retail stores like Sephora, its own boutiques and directly to customers. nytimes.com |