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Friday, November 21, 2003
Revolutionary Wrinkle Reducing Fillers to Enhance Face of Plastic Surgery
FDA Panel Recommends Conditional Approval of Restylane and Hylaform. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel’s recommendation today for conditional approval of Restylane and Hylaform, two new longer lasting, non-surgical wrinkle fighters. Restylane and Hylaform are hyaluronic acid-based soft tissue fillers that are already used in Canada and Europe to plump wrinkles with immediate results. Hyaluronic acid is a sugar molecule that occurs naturally in the body, so allergic reactions are rare. 47 percent of plastic surgeons responding to a recent ASPS survey believe injectables can enhance the results of facial surgery. - copyright ASPS - Read more of this article: Revolutionary Wrinkle Reducing Fillers to Enhance Face of Plastic Surgery and then find out more about aging changes in the skin As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Free RSS feed: http://www.e-sthetics.com/rss.xml Check out the Best Plastic Surgery Sites on the Net at: http://www.bestplasticsurgerysite.com Considering cosmetic surgery abroad? Check out our lipotourism© pages
The global makeover market
‘BEAUTY is truth,” wrote poor consumptive Keats, and women would have it so. But the truth about beauty – feminine beauty at any rate – is anything but simple. Beauty is artifice, is unguents, painting, crimping, dyeing, squeezing, plucking, tattooing, scarifying, distending, stiffening, binding. Cosmetic surgery is not as new as we imagine; down the ages, beautification has involved suffering far beyond the pierced earlobe; only think of the agony of bound Chinese feet or the months of lip-stretching endured by lip-plate wearers of the Suri and other African tribes. Yet beauty speaks to such deeply rooted, such basic desires, that in all societies, in every age, its pursuit is an unquenchable force. It is the fragment of the sublime that we store against our fleshly ruin. - copyright Patrick Hudson Statesman - Read more of this article: The global makeover market and then find out more about the pros and cons of cosmetic surgery As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Free RSS feed: http://www.e-sthetics.com/rss.xml Check out the Best Plastic Surgery Sites on the Net at: http://www.bestplasticsurgerysite.com Considering cosmetic surgery abroad? Check out our lipotourism© pages Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Plastic surgery booming in Latin America
The Latin American economy is meant to be in crisis, but that does not stop men and women spending a growing fortune on the plastic surgeon’s remedy for feeling good. More and more are looking at the mirror on the wall and not seeing the most beautiful of them all. And surveys say that 61 per cent of Brazilians consider their appearance to be the key to social success. One person in 30 in Argentina, which had one of the ugliest economies, went under the aesthetic knife in 1999. Young women in Colombia no longer want a foreign holiday or a party for their 15th birthday, better to have the bust lifted a bit or some hair removed by laser. But men are also falling for the plastic surgeon's quick nip and tuck. Ten per cent of clients across South America are men, with 30 per cent of them in Brazil. Over the past decade, Latin America has lagged behind the rest of the world in the wealth rankings, but in 10 years the amount of money spent each year on improving the body has grown 200 per cent. People are spending an average of US$8,000 (RM30,400) on a beauty operation, according to industry and public surveys. Brazil is Latin America's beauty champion, with annual growth of 30 per cent in its plastic surgery industry. - copyright New Straits Times/AFP - Read more of this article: Plastic surgery booming in Latin America and then find out more about cosmetic surgery around the world As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Free RSS feed: http://www.e-sthetics.com/rss.xml Check out the Best Plastic Surgery Sites on the Net at: http://www.bestplasticsurgerysite.com Considering cosmetic surgery abroad? Check out our lipotourism© pages
Blepharoplasty or eyelid tightening is done to remove bagginess and tighten loose skin of the eyelids.
 Blepharoplasty or eyelid tightening is done to remove bagginess and tighten lose skin of the eyelids. It does not remove fine wrinkle lines, these require resurfacing the skin. The forehead and face are not tightened by eyelid surgery.
Method: The method of surgery is to undermine the skin and remove the excess; this tightens the skin. At the same time it is often necessary to remove the fat pads which have come close to the surface. The incisions are placed in the natural crease lines of the upper and lower eyelids. Some patients are candidates for transconjunctival blepharoplasty. In this operation for lower lid bagginess, the incision is placed on the inside surface(the conjunctiva) of the lower lid. This avoids a visible scar. The operation is done under either local anesthetic (you are awake) or general anesthetic (you are asleep). You can choose. Most of the time this is an outpatient operation and a stay in the hospital is not needed. Problems: All operations have some risk. The risks of surgery are divided into two groups. First those that are seen in all operations and second those that are unique or special for this operation. In the first group, the main risks are swelling, bruising, bleeding, infection, a scar and numbness or change in feeling. The main problem which is special for this operation is ectropion or pulling down of the lower lid. Asymmetry of incision, dryness of the eyes and inability to completely close the eyelids have also been described. Postoperative care: The recovery takes one to two weeks. Most people are back to work within a week or two. For more information see the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) or check with your doctor. - copyright Patrick Hudson MDPA 505/242 0070 - Read more of this article: Blepharoplasty or eyelid tightening is done to remove bagginess and tighten loose skin of the eyelids and then find out more about aging As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Free RSS feed: http://www.e-sthetics.com/rss.xml Check out the Best Plastic Surgery Sites on the Net at: http://www.bestplasticsurgerysite.com Considering cosmetic surgery abroad? Check out our lipotourism© pages
Chin Sling May Replace Face Lift for Sagging Necks
Plastic surgeons may have a new weapon in their battle against sagging necks: the chin sling. A majority of 100 women who had a plastic lining surgically implanted under the skin of their chins and hooked behind the earlobes said it did wonders for their droopy necks, a problem area for plastic surgeons, Emory University researchers in Atlanta said on Monday. "There were no requests for sling removal, and 86 (out of 100) patients claimed that they would recommend the procedure to a friend or relative," Wallace Dyer and Arvind Prabhat wrote in The Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, a journal published by the American Medical Association. An accumulation of fat, lost skin elasticity and stretched muscle lining can cause necks to sag, and the sling can help lift the tissues under the chin, the report said. Only one of the women felt discomfort a year after the procedure. The women, who averaged 54 years of age, were having other cosmetic work done when the sling was inserted in procedures done mostly between 1996 and 1998. The women gave their assessment of the sling after a year, but were followed for three years. - copyright Reuters - Read more of this article: Chin Sling May Replace Face Lift for Sagging Necks and then find out more about droopy necks As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Free RSS feed: http://www.e-sthetics.com/rss.xml Check out the Best Plastic Surgery Sites on the Net at: http://www.bestplasticsurgerysite.com Considering cosmetic surgery abroad? Check out our lipotourism© pages Call for your free consultation with Dr. Hudson NOT with a nurse 505.242.0070 Prices for surgery with Dr. Hudson - financing available  |