Category: Did You Know | plastic surgery

The father of modern day plastic and cosmetic surgery is credited to Italian surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi who lived from 1545 to1599. He is best known for developing a technique to transfer arm tissue to the face, known as a pedicled arm flap. This was particularly needed for the reconstruction of a disfigured or amputated nose. Read More…

While it is commonly perceived that older patients (> 45 years old) undergo the majority of the cosmetic procedures, recently released statistics from the American Society of Plastic surgery tell a different story. People aged 40 to 45 years of age, so-called Generation Xers, account for  over 40% of procedures while the Baby Boomers makeup Read More…

The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is an organization composed of board-certified plastic surgeons whose practices are either exclusively cosmetic surgery or have a significant cosmetic surgery component. The logo of the society is the famous image of the Egyption Queen Nephretiti whose beauty and elegance has been revered since the time of her Read More…

You may think that the rise in plastic surgery procedures being done comes all from new patients. And while more people are having plastic surgery than ever before, a fair portion of these procedures are actually being done on prior patients. Most plastic surgery practices will tell you that one-third or more of cosmetic procedures Read More…

Everyone is aware that cosmetic surgery is a burgeoning business based on the sheer number of advertisements and coverage by the media. Recent statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows that the number of cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. has doubled over the past ten years. But this dramatic increase has Read More…

Cosmetic surgery abounds in the U.S. as seen everywhere from print and electronic media. One would think that this is an almost exclusive American phenomenon that is less popular anywhere else in the world but that impression would be wrong. While the U.S. has the greatest number of procedures performed of any country in the Read More…

Plastic surgery has very little to do with…plastic. Plastic as a well known material has been around since its discovery and synthesis from petrochemicals in 1951. But plastic surgery as a medical procedure has been around for hundreds of years before. In looking at the many hundreds of plastic surgery procedures, very few of them Read More…

One of the important elements of facial beauty, if not the most important, is symmetry. The more symmetric the two halfs of the face are, the more attractive one is rated to be. This is frequently seen in illustrated TV commercials and print ads. When the person shown is sick or ill, their face is Read More…