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Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Breast Implants and Drug Smuggling

Breast implants enlarge the breasts through indwelling materials such as saline and silicone gel contained within a silicone elastomer bag. There are millions of women every year who travel on airlines carrying their own ‘internal’ baggage inside their breasts. It is neither evident or scanned and their presence is a most personal issue and not Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Plastic Surgery in Afghanistan

Plastic surgery is done in almost every country in the world, regardless of their political and economic climates. One would think that such plastic surgery may be just reconstructive procedures in some of the more ‘extreme’ conditions of some countries, but cosmetic procedures exist just as well. Perhaps not as extensively performed as in the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Male Beauty Trend

While women make up the vast majority of plastic surgery and skin care patients and always will, the number of men having procedures and using advanced forms of skin care is increasing. While just a few percent of the total beauty pie decades ago, it is now around 10% of almost 9 million procedures performed.. Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Scar Treatments

  Scars are a common problem that occur from a variety of events including injury, various skin conditions and surgical procedures. Removal of these scars is a frequent patient request from plastic surgeons. While scar treatments have been a part of plastic surgery for a very long time, one thing about them has always been Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Financing in Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery has come a long way over the past decades on many levels. Besides the advances in surgical techniques, biomaterials and anesthesia, the profile of the typical patient has changed. While once considered a luxury for the wealthy and famous, the rise in the popularity and awareness of plastic surgery is because it has Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The First Rhinoplasty

  It is generally accepted that the first recorded plastic surgery performed was for the nose in India as found in ancient Sanskrit texts around 600 B.C. Noses were lost then as a form of punishment (ears were also) for crimes or in battle. From the text Sushruta Samhita, the Hindu surgeon Sushruta describes transferring Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Two Part Process of Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most recognized of all cosmetic plastic surgery procedures and has been done in the U.S. since 1981. As the science of liposuction has evolved, particularly over the past two decades, new methods of extraction has appeared applying energy technologies such as ultrasound, laser, infrared and pulsed water. These modern-day liposuction Read More…

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