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What Is A Facelift? What Is A Rhytidectomy?

A facelift is a surgical procedure that is typically used to give a more youthful appearance to the face. Technically, it is also called a rhytidectomy. This type of cosmetic surgery reshapes the lower one-third of the face by removing excess facial sk…

Man’s Head Reshaped With Fat From His Stomach

Hang onto that belly fat, it may come in useful! In a UK first, surgeons at King’s College Hospital in London, have taken fat from a man’s stomach and injected it into his head to help reshape it. The patient had had some of his skull removed, and su…

Plastic Surgery Really Does Make People Look Younger

Plastic surgery seems to make people look about 8.9 years younger than their actual age, researchers from the University of Toronto and NorthShore University Health System reported in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Jeremy P. Warner, M.D., and team…

Plastic Surgeries Continue To Grow, Despite Sluggish Economy, USA

13.8 million plastic surgery procedures were performed in 2011, a 5% increase on the year before, according to a new report issued by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The authors added that by the end of 2011, the number of total plasti…

PIP Breast Implants Unsafe, Say German Authorities

German authorities at the BfArM Institute have officially informed the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) that the former GfE Medizintechnik GmbH in Germany sold breast implants under the name TiBREEZE from September 2003 to Au…

PIP Breast Implants Unsafe, Say German Authorities

German authorities at the BfArM Institute have officially informed the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) that the former GfE Medizintechnik GmbH in Germany sold breast implants under the name TiBREEZE from September 2003 to Au…

Male Tummy Tucks Up 15% In UK

Britons appear to be tightening their belts in more ways than one: 2011 audit figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) revealed on Monday that the number of men undergoing tummy tucks (abdominoplasty) was 15% higher …

Ban Cosmetic Surgery Ads, Regulate The Industry, Urge To UK Government

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) is calling on the UK government to ban cosmetic surgery advertising and tighten up industry regulations, including carrying annual checks on surgeons. The association has long voiced its…

PIP Breast Implants – UK Dept Of Health Response To Expert Report

According to the Department of Health, their main concern is the wellbeing of women who have had PiP breast implants. For this reason, an expert group led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, has been asked to examine all available data …

Faulty PIP And ROFIL Medro Breast Implants – ISAPS Official Statement

Health authorities have discovered during a recent French governmental inspection of breast implants, which were manufactured by PIP and ROFIL Medro since 2001, that most implants are filled with industrial grade silicone instead of medical grade silic…