Linda Lu, a 21-year-old Valencia College student, received the Southeast’s first hand transplant March 12th at Emory University, in Atlanta. The operation was detailed in a press conference earlier this week. She lost her left hand at age 1 due to Kawasaki disease, a vascular condition that can restrict blood flow to extremities, resulting in […]
As reported in detail on CNN.com, the first whole face transplant in the U.S. was successfully performed at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital last week. The transplant recipient, a 28 year-old Texan named Dallas Wiens, had suffered devastating full facial burns following a high-voltage electrical accident in 2008. This left him blind and with a badly […]
I participate in a number of online question-and-answer boards about Plastic Surgery, including “Ask-a-Surgeon” from ASAPS and Realself.com Today, this question came up: Is smart lipo/laser lipo better than traditional liposuction? What credentials should I be looking for in my doctor if I was interested in this procedure? Here’s my answer: Getting good results in liposuction is […]
Want to prevent 2 million complications of surgery, just in the United States alone? Have smokers quit smoking for at least a month prior to surgery. In the United States, approximately 8 to 10 million procedures requiring surgery and anesthesia are performed on cigarette smokers each year, out of the estimated 50 million that are […]
Here is a nice story about a 9 year old who is having reconstructive plastic surgery to fix a deformed ear that he was born with, due to a condition called Goldenhar syndrome. Now, at age 9, he has undergone the first step of the classic two to three stage surgical reconstruction to transform the nub of […]
Just last week, I did a consultation on a young lady who had an “awake breast augmentation” done in Maitland, Florida, less than 8 months ago. She was already in my office, getting a consultation on how to fix her poorly done surgery, so she could look normal again. She had a lot of comments […]
It seems that, every few months, there’s a new variation on our old friend, liposuction. This time, the latest phrase is “tickle liposuction”. (ed: I don’t know who comes up with these marketing terms, but really – tickle??)It’s just a variation on power-assisted liposuction (“PAL”), which has been around for years, and works great. Instead […]
If you’re like most people, you’ve never heard of ALCL. Well, you will now, because the FDA has just issued a bulletin, drawing attention to this exceptionally rare disease. ALCL is a subtype of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ALCL is NOT breast cancer, but an entirely different disease. It can affect lymph nodes, skin or breast tissue. […]
Plastic Surgery advice site RealSelf.com keeps a consumer-generated list of procedures, rated by whether or not the consumer felt they were “worth it” or not. (link) While it’s not scientific, it’s a good reflection of how consumers feel about things. Here are the top five plastic surgery procedures (most worth it), as of today: #1) “mommy make-over” – 94% approval #2) […]
Happy New Year, everyone! If you are like me, you’ve probably made a resolution to try to lose weight and get more fit this year. Good for you! Most of us do this to lose some of the weight we gained over the Thanksgiving to Christmas season of over-eating. But it turns out, a smaller […]
