April 2010

Implants and breast cancer detection

Posted on April 27, 2010

Cancer screening is a big deal for women.  Breast cancer rates are high.  It seems all of us are touched directly by breast cancer.  So when you do surgery on the breast, the effect surgery has […]

Nadia’s Gift, Breast Cancer, and me

Posted on April 21, 2010

Nadia Van Camp is an amazing woman. I just found out today she lost her battle with breast cancer.   I went to her 50th birthday party last year.  Yes, 50th. I want to cry.  She was one […]

ASAPS 2009 statistics on cosmetic surgery

Posted on April 19, 2010

I love numbers and science.  I find these statistics interesting.  The top three procedures I do (not shockingly) correlate with the most popular procedures done overall: breast augs, liposuction, and eyes.  The top nonsurgical I do, […]

Who is doing your liposuction? Most likely not a real plastic surgeon

Posted on April 14, 2010

The April Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery had a good study with juicy numbers.  The paper’s real title, “Who is Providing Aesthetic Surgery? A detailed Examination of the Geographic Distribution and Training backgrounds of Cosmetic […]

FDA crackdown on fat melting injections

Posted on April 12, 2010

It is nice to see a regulatory agency regulating. I frequently blog about the people who use gimmicks and marketing, make false claims, and do dangerous things… When did medicine become something done in a mall?  […]

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