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The Impact of the Economy on Plastic Surgery

  Undoubtably, we are in more difficult economic times than a year ago….even if you compare the gas prices alone. As is well known in plastic surgery, the less ‘luxury’ income that is available the less elective plastic surgery gets done. Cosmetic surgery is one of the first items crossed off the list in hard Read More…

The Short-Lived Body Image Memory Concept in Plastic Surgery

  One of the most fascinating human observations in plastic surgery is how quickly patients forget what they looked like before surgery. Patients remembered ‘perceptions’ of their face and body is often quite erroneous…or their memories are quite short. Therein lies the value of preoperative photographs. Not only to marvel at how significant the changes Read More…

In Search of the Perfect Result in Plastic Surgery

  One of the most challenging tasks in Plastic Surgery is to try and please patients who are seeking the ‘perfect result’. What I am specifically referring to are three types of patients; a new patient who has never had plastic surgery before, a patient that I have operated on previously and wants the result Read More…

Effectiveness of LipoDissolve and Mesotherapy for Fat Reduction

  In the most recent issue of our prestiguous journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (April), I read an article on evaluating the effectiveness of mesotherapy on body contouring. This was a study out of Seoul, Korea on 20 women who had mesotherapy injections on their inner thighs on one side and not the other over Read More…

Cost Shopping in Plastic Surgery

Everyone wants the best deal in anything in life…and in plastic surgery this concept is no different. However, the very cost-conscious patient (shopper) in plastic surgery often turns out to be a problem patient. I am not saying that every patient that wants to negotiate price is a problem, it just seems that there is Read More…

Dr Barry Eppley Lectures at Aveda Institute Indianapolis

On Tuesday March 25, 2008, Dr Barry Eppley, board-certified plastic surgeon, presented a lecture open to the general public on the topic, ‘Trick, Trend, or Truth: The Insider’s Guide to Plastic Surgery’ at Frederic’s AVEDA Institute in Indianapolis. In this presentation, Dr Eppley reviewed ten of the most popular cosmetic plastic surgery procedures today and Read More…

Active vs Passive Listening to Patients in Plastic Surgery

  Every plastic surgeon understands the importance of listening to patients, either before as well as after any operation. Plastic surgeons understand this better than any other medical specialty, short of psychiatry. (and we have to be part-time psychologists often!) But, quite frankly, listening takes time and extensive time is often not possible at each Read More…

Fat Transplantation and Grafting in Plastic Surgery

Despite the more recent public awareness of fat removal by liposuction and fat injections for volume addition in the past 20 years, the use of fat in plastic surgery has been around for over 50 years. The history of liposuction dates back to the early 20th century with the famous first case of unsuccessful liposuction Read More…

Fat, Liposuction and Fat Injections – Questions Yet To Be Answered

As a plastic surgeon, I certainly am asked and do treat a lot of fat concerns. Whether it be liposuction treatments for fat removal or fat injections for adding volume somewhere, plastic surgeons probably handle more fat than any other medical specialty. Yet, we still do not understand much of its physiology and its response to Read More…

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