Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Are There Different Liposuction Techniques?
Though the basics of liposuction remain the same, there are different techniques that can be used during liposuction. "Tumescent Liposuction" During this technique the plastic surgeon will inject a medicated solution into the fatty areas before the fat is removed. The solution is a mixture of intravenous salt water, a local anesthetic (lidocaine) and a drug that contracts the blood vessels (epinephrine). This fluid injection helps the fat to be removed more easily, reduces blood loss and bruising after surgery, and provides anesthesia during and after the surgery. The amount of fluid injected varies and depends on the preference of the surgeon. "Ultrasound-Assisted Lipoplasty (UAL) This technique requires the use of a special cannula that produces ultrasonic energy. As the ultrasonic energy passes through the areas of fat it causes the fat cells to liquefy. The fat is then removed with the traditional liposuction technique. Because the fat is liquid at the time that it is removed, UAL is smoother and mechanically more efficient. UAL also minimizes trauma, resulting in less bruising and blood loss and especially improves the ease and effectiveness of liposuction in fibrous areas of the body. More information about liposuction.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Don't dismiss weight-loss surgery - Boston Globe
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Defense secretary recuperating after arm surgery - USA Today
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
 Canada.com | Don't dismiss weight-loss surgery Boston Globe, United States - He noted the estimated $4.4 billion in bariatric-surgery costs last year, but neglected to add that money spent on this surgery is recovered through cancer ... Employers Seek to Gain From Weight-Loss Surgery Surgical weight loss offers potential health gains Reuters Examines Obesity, Health Care Reform |
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Defense secretary recuperating after arm surgery - USA Today
 Washington Post | Defense secretary recuperating after arm surgery USA Today - Defense Secretary Robert Gates had surgery this morning to repair a torn biceps tendon in his left arm, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell has told reporters ... Defense Secretary Gates Recovering From Arm Surgery Pentagon chief undergoes surgery for arm injury Gates recovering after arm surgery |
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
High and Extra High Projection Implants: Happy Story with a Twist and Sad Ending
High and Extra High Projection Implants: Happy Story with a Twist and Sad Ending
The plot: What you may think you want, and what you may get...
It's a simple story, but with a sad twist. Certain patients want more projecting breast--forward thrusting, perky, "lifted", or even Dagmar-like (definition: missile or artillery shell-like, named after a famous cleavage, and used for the design of front bumper grill decorations in 50's cars--find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_bumpers.) What patients want, surgeons historically provide. Simple demand and supply, but in this case, a story with a twist.
The story begins something like this--patient wants, surgeon supplies, patient pays, patient has new breasts, patient is happy. Then the twist; the story doesn't stop with "patient is happy". Patient thought she knew what she wanted--she just never dreamed what she might get. Happy for a while, but then later...where did the projection go? "Perky? I don't think so. Now they're more like "rock in a sock?" "I nursed my first child; why can't I nurse now?" And "why can I see the edges of my implant; why are these big ripples in my cleavage area; and why does my surgeon say these things can't be corrected?" Like the movie Easy Rider (yes I know that dates me), a story with a great beginning, but with twists and a sad ending.
High and extra high projection breast implants seem like a good idea for first-time breast augmentation patients who want them--until the story changes with a twist and sad ending. Can a high projecting implant create a high projecting breast that hits the aesthetic mark for what the patient wants? No question, and that's why many surgeons implant them when patients ask. The problem is making choices without knowing the potential story endings.
The more highly projecting (front-to-back dimension) of a breast implant, the harder the implant pushes on what's in front of it--particularly breast tissue (the milk producing tissue that covers the implant and makes the breast feel like a breast) and the skin envelope (the skin that contains the implant and breast tissue, and supports the breast). What's wrong with the story so far? Don't we need a more projecting implant to push harder and create a more projecting breast? Yes, we do. Patient and surgeon have decided what they want, and they have selected the type of implant that will force the tissues to the desired result. But then comes the twist: forcing tissues to a desired result has consequences that patient and/or surgeon may not have considered when choosing an implant, changing a happy story to a sad ending.
The twists and the sad ending are predictable. Excessive pressure from excessive implant size or projection compresses (squashes is a simpler term) the breast tissue against the overlying skin. Over time, two bad things happen. The breast tissue simply fades away or shrinks over time (medical term: parenchymal atrophy), and it's gone--for good. No breast tissue, no milk, no nursing, and no coverage over the breast implant, so implant edges become visible. Excessive pressure from overly projecting implants overly stretches the skin of the lower breast. Like a blown bubble with chewing gum, as the bubble gets larger, it gets thinner. Larger bubble in the lower breast means emptying of the upper breast and a fuller lower breast--rock in a sock. Thinner bubble with less breast tissue covering the implant allows implant edges to become visible (yes, it's ugly). As the weight of the implant pulls on the thin bubble (the skin evelope), the skin wrinkles and ripples in the areas where the skin is thinnest, often in the cleavage area where it's most noticeable.
Sad ending is, once the tissue is gone, it's gone. Once the skin envelope is too thin--it's forever. No surgical procedure can restore tissues irreversibly damaged by excessively projecting or excessively large imlants. What started out as a well-intended but poorly thought out story, often ends up as a sad ending with uncorrectable tissue deformities.Morals of the story? Decisions and choices without thorough knowledge can produce irreversible and uncorrectable deformities. Be certain that you balance what you think you want with what you are likely to get.
You may know what you think you want, but you need to know what you may get before making a choice of implant projection and size. Keeping the happy story happy requires the right choices up front, because life (and breast augmentation) are about choices, and patients and surgeons are responsible for the choices they make. Avoiding the twist requires recognizing and avoiding choices that put a sad ending on a happy story. There is little or no place for highly projecting breast implants for primary (first time) augmentation if safety and preservation of patient tissues are priorities. Postscript: Breast reconstruction after mastectomy is very different compared to breast augmentation. The breast (or large portions of it) is gone. In carefully considered situations, more highly projecting implants sometimes have a place in breast reconstruction.
Terrye Tebbetts
The plot: What you may think you want, and what you may get...
It's a simple story, but with a sad twist. Certain patients want more projecting breast--forward thrusting, perky, "lifted", or even Dagmar-like (definition: missile or artillery shell-like, named after a famous cleavage, and used for the design of front bumper grill decorations in 50's cars--find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_bumpers.) What patients want, surgeons historically provide. Simple demand and supply, but in this case, a story with a twist.
The story begins something like this--patient wants, surgeon supplies, patient pays, patient has new breasts, patient is happy. Then the twist; the story doesn't stop with "patient is happy". Patient thought she knew what she wanted--she just never dreamed what she might get. Happy for a while, but then later...where did the projection go? "Perky? I don't think so. Now they're more like "rock in a sock?" "I nursed my first child; why can't I nurse now?" And "why can I see the edges of my implant; why are these big ripples in my cleavage area; and why does my surgeon say these things can't be corrected?" Like the movie Easy Rider (yes I know that dates me), a story with a great beginning, but with twists and a sad ending.
High and extra high projection breast implants seem like a good idea for first-time breast augmentation patients who want them--until the story changes with a twist and sad ending. Can a high projecting implant create a high projecting breast that hits the aesthetic mark for what the patient wants? No question, and that's why many surgeons implant them when patients ask. The problem is making choices without knowing the potential story endings.
The more highly projecting (front-to-back dimension) of a breast implant, the harder the implant pushes on what's in front of it--particularly breast tissue (the milk producing tissue that covers the implant and makes the breast feel like a breast) and the skin envelope (the skin that contains the implant and breast tissue, and supports the breast). What's wrong with the story so far? Don't we need a more projecting implant to push harder and create a more projecting breast? Yes, we do. Patient and surgeon have decided what they want, and they have selected the type of implant that will force the tissues to the desired result. But then comes the twist: forcing tissues to a desired result has consequences that patient and/or surgeon may not have considered when choosing an implant, changing a happy story to a sad ending.
The twists and the sad ending are predictable. Excessive pressure from excessive implant size or projection compresses (squashes is a simpler term) the breast tissue against the overlying skin. Over time, two bad things happen. The breast tissue simply fades away or shrinks over time (medical term: parenchymal atrophy), and it's gone--for good. No breast tissue, no milk, no nursing, and no coverage over the breast implant, so implant edges become visible. Excessive pressure from overly projecting implants overly stretches the skin of the lower breast. Like a blown bubble with chewing gum, as the bubble gets larger, it gets thinner. Larger bubble in the lower breast means emptying of the upper breast and a fuller lower breast--rock in a sock. Thinner bubble with less breast tissue covering the implant allows implant edges to become visible (yes, it's ugly). As the weight of the implant pulls on the thin bubble (the skin evelope), the skin wrinkles and ripples in the areas where the skin is thinnest, often in the cleavage area where it's most noticeable.
Sad ending is, once the tissue is gone, it's gone. Once the skin envelope is too thin--it's forever. No surgical procedure can restore tissues irreversibly damaged by excessively projecting or excessively large imlants. What started out as a well-intended but poorly thought out story, often ends up as a sad ending with uncorrectable tissue deformities.Morals of the story? Decisions and choices without thorough knowledge can produce irreversible and uncorrectable deformities. Be certain that you balance what you think you want with what you are likely to get.
You may know what you think you want, but you need to know what you may get before making a choice of implant projection and size. Keeping the happy story happy requires the right choices up front, because life (and breast augmentation) are about choices, and patients and surgeons are responsible for the choices they make. Avoiding the twist requires recognizing and avoiding choices that put a sad ending on a happy story. There is little or no place for highly projecting breast implants for primary (first time) augmentation if safety and preservation of patient tissues are priorities. Postscript: Breast reconstruction after mastectomy is very different compared to breast augmentation. The breast (or large portions of it) is gone. In carefully considered situations, more highly projecting implants sometimes have a place in breast reconstruction.
Terrye Tebbetts
Thursday, January 15, 2009
State Surgeon General Unveils Governor's Health Plan - The Morning News
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Okla. surgeon halts practice while probe under way - The Associated Press
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Surgeon's Checklist Saves Lives - U.S. News & World Report
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Renowned fetal surgeon leaving USF for Miami - Tampabay.com
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
 KARK | State Surgeon General Unveils Governor's Health Plan The Morning News, AR - State Surgeon General Joe Thompson presented the package while governor's staff simultaneously delivered the details to House leadership. ... Health Care Plan Health bills a package deal Child Advocates Cheer Beebe’s Call to Expand ARKids First |
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Okla. surgeon halts practice while probe under way - The Associated Press
Okla. surgeon halts practice while probe under way The Associated Press - (AP) — An Oklahoma City surgeon who made headlines after he performed a risky operation in 2006 that left a Russian teen brain dead has agreed not to ... AP NewsBreak: Neurosurgeon under investigation |
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Surgeon's Checklist Saves Lives - U.S. News & World Report
 New York Times | Surgeon's Checklist Saves Lives U.S. News & World Report, DC - They collected data on 3733 patients before using the checklist and on 3955 patients after surgeons started using the checklist. ... Studies: Surgeons could save lives, $20B by using checklist Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors Surgical Checklists Reduce Complications, Study Finds |
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Renowned fetal surgeon leaving USF for Miami - Tampabay.com
Renowned fetal surgeon leaving USF for Miami Tampabay.com, FL - By Rodney Thrash, Times Staff Writer TAMPA — Dr. Ruben Quintero, a world-renowned University of South Florida fetal surgeon who helped turn Tampa General ... |
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Robotic heart surgery is first of its type in the South - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
Robotic heart surgery is first of its type in the South Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - Ronald Callihan is ready to get back to his job as a paramedic with the Spartanburg County EMS following robotic endoscopic beating-heart surgery at ... |
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Never go for plastic surgery: Koena - Times of India
Koena Mitra is ready to dispel rumours that she had had a face-lift, lip job, nose job, breast job: she zones in on one definite option from the above – it was a nose job that had turned her life into a living nightmare. A year and a half after the
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Many putting off plastic surgery until economy improves - Greenville News
In tough economic times, and with no health insurance for cosmetic surgery, many are postponing or canceling their plans. The impact has been so severe in some areas that plastic surgeons are laying off employees or cutting back on their hours as a
Source: www.greenvilleonline.com
Stretched budgets put wrinkle in plastic surgery - Greenville News
People cut back on big-ticket items like vacations and cars when the economy sours, but is a $7,000 facelift or a $4,000 nose job recession-proof? In tough economic times, and with no health insurance for cosmetic surgery, many are postponing or
Source: www.greenvilleonline.com
Plastic surgery industry suffers in South Korea amid economic slump - Houston Chronicle
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — A grim frugality has settled over this export powerhouse that once burst with optimism — and silicone. Cosmetic surgery took off here after South Korea's spectacular recovery from its currency crisis a decade ago. Rising
Source: www.chron.com
Korea's plastic surgery fad falls under budget knife - International Herald Tribune
SEOUL : A grim frugality has settled over this export powerhouse that once burst with optimism — and silicone. Cosmetic surgery took off here after South Korea's spectacular recovery from its currency crisis a decade ago. Rising living standards
Source: www.iht.com
Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
Koena Mitra is ready to dispel rumours that she had had a face-lift, lip job, nose job, breast job: she zones in on one definite option from the above – it was a nose job that had turned her life into a living nightmare. A year and a half after the
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Many putting off plastic surgery until economy improves - Greenville News
In tough economic times, and with no health insurance for cosmetic surgery, many are postponing or canceling their plans. The impact has been so severe in some areas that plastic surgeons are laying off employees or cutting back on their hours as a
Source: www.greenvilleonline.com
Stretched budgets put wrinkle in plastic surgery - Greenville News
People cut back on big-ticket items like vacations and cars when the economy sours, but is a $7,000 facelift or a $4,000 nose job recession-proof? In tough economic times, and with no health insurance for cosmetic surgery, many are postponing or
Source: www.greenvilleonline.com
Plastic surgery industry suffers in South Korea amid economic slump - Houston Chronicle
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — A grim frugality has settled over this export powerhouse that once burst with optimism — and silicone. Cosmetic surgery took off here after South Korea's spectacular recovery from its currency crisis a decade ago. Rising
Source: www.chron.com
Korea's plastic surgery fad falls under budget knife - International Herald Tribune
SEOUL : A grim frugality has settled over this export powerhouse that once burst with optimism — and silicone. Cosmetic surgery took off here after South Korea's spectacular recovery from its currency crisis a decade ago. Rising living standards
Source: www.iht.com
Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
Monday, January 5, 2009
2009 predictions: Darragh quits and Nicola makes a boob by ... - Peterborough Today
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
2009 predictions: Darragh quits and Nicola makes a boob by ... Peterborough Today, UK - By Alan Swann It's a nightmare start to the year for Posh as Darragh MacAnthony pulls his money out of the club in order to buy Liverpool FC. in protest at ... |
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Choosing to have plastic surgery is an important decision whether it is breast augmentation, liposuction or rhinoplasty. Selecting the right plastic surgeon in Seattle is just as important. Make an informed decision.
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