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Friday, January 02, 2004
Cosmetic catastrophes: There seems to be no end to what we do for beauty
What is it about women that makes us believe if we paint ourselves into distortion, contort ourselves into garments that were never meant to accommodate our bodies and generally twist ourselves hard enough into something we were never meant to be, we will make ourselves attractive? I speak from experience. As a teen-ager I trotted barefoot down the sidewalks of New York city to relieve my feet from the agony of hours of hobbling around in stilettos (to the point where hot coals would have seemed an accommodation.) I elected my first of three sessions of plastic surgery in my mid-20s. And I've acquired many a habiliment that was too small for me at the point of purchase, only to delude myself into thinking I would "diet" my way into the thing. - copyright Scripps Howard News Service - Read more of this article: Cosmetic catastrophes: There seems to be no end to what we do for beauty and then read about the moral aspects of cosmetic surgery As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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 Thursday, January 01, 2004
Reduce Wrinkles Without Surgery
More than 6.5 million Americans had a cosmetic procedure last year. The majority of those people chose a non-surgical procedure like chemical face peels or laser hair removal. Botox was the most popular procedure by far, with more than 1 million customers -- mostly women -- lining up for the injections. Here are some other ways to turn back time without surgery. - copyright Ivanhoe/News 14 Carolina - Read more of this article:Reduce Wrinkles Without 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 Wednesday, December 31, 2003
If it is bent, it can't be a banana
But nothing had prepared me for related news from China. This time about "leg-lengthening". China, where most people would be considered short in countries like the US, is a terribly height conscious nation. The Guardian reports that the procedure involves breaking both legs and having them stretched on a rack. A doctor saws through the flesh and bone below the knee and inserts giant steel spins. These are then connected by eight screws punched horizontally through the ankle and calf to a steel cage surrounding each leg. Once the bones begin to heal, each day the "patient" turns the screws a little, and streches his (or her) limbs more and more until he has grown to the desired height. It is 18 months of agony and pain. But well worth it. Some patients get to be five inches taller! The parents of Kong Jing-wen chipped in £5,700 to help with her operation. They are happy for her, saying the height gain is doing wonders for her confidence. Like thousands of other young Chinese women, a much taller and healed Jing-wen is looking forward to a promotion or a good job, many new friends and admirers, and a good husband. For the record, the leg-lengthening technique was developed in Russia for people with stunted growth (a couple of them being senior Communist Party officials, of course). - copyright Nation Media Group - Read more of this article: If it is bent, it can't be a banana and then find out more about why people have cosmetic surgery As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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
Masculinity and plastic surgery
Jose Juan Tañon used to be terrified of going to the movies, not because of scary films, but for gazes of horror that people would throw at him when looking at his great body mass trying into squeeze in the theater seats. "I used to weigh 415 pounds; my pants were size 56," said the Puerto Rican tenor, winner of the 1991 OTI Song Festival who now weighs 185 pounds and has undergone two surgeries to lift his abdomen. In a time when men are increasingly embracing surgical as well as non invasive procedures to improve their appearance, Tañon acknowledges that there is still a tendency in Puerto Rican society to think of male plastic surgery as shallow and unmasculine. However, he is convinced that plastic surgery was part of an integrated plan to improve his physical health and self esteem. He said he feels better than ever and enjoys the support and admiration of those who know him. "There is a lot of pressure out there. There are people who have undergone some procedure but don't dare say it because other people don't approve, be it for religious beliefs or because they consider it pure vanity. But if it helps to make you feel better...then why not do it," Tañon said. In his case, surgery was the only thing that helped him gain firmness in his abdomen after losing 230 pounds. - copyright Casiano Communications Inc - and then find out more about why men have cosmetic surgery As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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 Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Malaysia offers praying surgeons to lure Mideast ill
Malaysia unveiled plans Tuesday to become a medical hub for Middle Eastern Muslims with promises of halal meals at hospitals and doctors who pray before performing surgery. .. Foreign patients come for a variety of procedures, including ... cosmetic operations. - copyright Associated Press/Haarez -  Read more of this article: Malaysia offers praying surgeons to lure Mideast ill
and then find out more about the good and bad of traveling abroad for cosmetic surgery As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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 Monday, December 29, 2003
Hair Apparent
Rugs, drugs, and plugs are so 20th century. The very modern baldness cure: follicles grown in a petri dish. Five minutes after I meet Ken Washenik, he invites me to examine his scalp. We're in the penthouse offices of Beverly Hills-based Bosley International, the nation's largest hair transplantation company, where Washenik - the head of New York University's dermatopharmacology department until 2002 - now leads Bosley's research and development. He is also, as the saying goes, a client. He points high up on his forehead to his hairline, indicating where the transplants are. He then shows me a series of photos taken during the surgery. He's smiling broadly in the pictures as L. Lee Bosley himself, the founder of the company and Washenik's boss, removes a bloody strip of hairy scalp from the back of his head. These hairs are now implanted on top of his head. Oddly enough, it's this 50-year-old traditional hair transplantation process that Washenik has been hired to make obsolete. Flipping through the photographs, Washenik explains that the procedure has one major shortcoming: There's never enough hair. Doctors cut out follicles from the nonbald regions and implant them on the front lines, but more often than not the bare areas can't be fully covered by the limited amount of excised hair. "It's a supply-and-demand problem," Washenik says, scratching his head unconsciously. "Only so much scalp can be harvested from the back and sides of the head." - copyright Wired - Read more of this article: Hair Apparent and then find out more about hair transplants As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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 Sunday, December 28, 2003
Doctors warn surgery not for all obese people
Karen Baumann looks across a room filled with people from different walks of life — men and women, young and old, black and white, and a few others in between. It’s what these people have in common, however, that truly sets their group apart. For many of the people in the room, living in a society that looks down on its heaviest is a reality they face every day. And for those living for years with the personal failure and stigma often associated with morbid obesity, the prospects of a procedure that could potentially snatch them out of its vicious cycle is cause for hope. Hope enough to attend a bariatric surgery seminar with their loved ones. But Baumann, a nurse who’s facilitating the seminar for Western Surgical Group of Reno, sobers the attendees with a dose of reality... - copyright Reno Gazette-Journal - Read more of this article: Doctors warn surgery not for all obese people and then find out about stomach surgery for obesity As always you can email Dr. Hudson if you have any questions. E-sthetics ... comprehensive information about cosmetic surgery Dr. Patrick Hudson is a Board Certiifed Plastic Surgeon providing plastic surgery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for over twenty years. He was voted Albuquerque's Best Plastic Surgeon. Find out more about his qualifications. 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  |