There is a wide variety of cosmetic surgery procedures for rejuvenating the face but the hands tend to be overlooked. The hands show signs of aging just as much as the face does, and perhaps sooner. Sun damage tends to affect the hands more easily, as it is hard to keep a sunscreen on the hands for … [Read more...]
Advantages of Weight Loss Surgery
Insurance companies will not cover cosmetic surgery, on the basis that it is not health-related and necessary. However, they will cover reconstructive surgery. That is defined as functionally necessary plastic surgery, as in breast reconstruction after a mastectomy or nose reconstruction after a … [Read more...]
Micro Breast Implants?
In 2006 one Dr. William Brennan received a patent for small micro-implants about the size of M-and-Ms. He is a neurosurgeon and cosmetic surgeon of over 20 years' experience and began working on these micro-implants in 2002. He is currently working to prepare for application to the Food and Drug … [Read more...]
Treatment of Spider Veins
Spider veins are those small ones visible on the skin surface. They can be red, blue or purple and are clustered on the legs -- ankles, calves, or thighs. For the past ten or fifteen years, sclerotherapy has been a popular procedure for women to have them removed. Medically, spider veins are known … [Read more...]
Who is a Good Cosmetic Surgery Candidate?
Recently, Fox had a television series called The Swan. It featured "ugly ducklings" in a beauty competition. Each contestant received free cosmetic surgery and cosmetic dentistry, and in each show, one was judged a winner and went on to compete in the next show. Lorrie Arias of Corona in Southern … [Read more...]
Italian Priest’s Nun Beauty Contest Cancelled Because of “Misunderstanding”
An Italian priest, whom we shall call "Chanticleer," advertised a beauty pageant for nuns on his blog. He hoped that nuns would send in pictures and biographies of themselves to be posted on his blog starting next month, then, after pictures and biographies had been posted, readers would vote for … [Read more...]
Woman who gave Patients Injections of Non-FDA-Approved Filler Charged with Felonies
Lauretta Cheek, former owner of the Altmed of the Triad spa in North Carolina, and charged with a misdemeanor for practicing medicine without a license, has been charged again with 20 felony fraud counts for using a Chapel Hill doctor's name for trying to get a hold of prescription drugs. Cheek was … [Read more...]
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