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Massive £6million payout for face-lift gone wrong

May 23, 2011

A 49 year old English business woman named Penny Johnson has been awarded £6 million in damages today after suing her plastic surgeon. Ms Johnson went in for what she thought was a regular face lift procedure, intending to look more youthful and reduce the sagging of the skin on her face and neck. The [...]

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What do you know about a tummy tuck?

May 13, 2011

A good tummy tuck can generate a happy patient. Here are 6 facts you need to know about tummy tucks. The average type of person that hs a tummy tuck is someone who has lost a lot of weight, or females who gained a lot of weight during pregnancy and lost it afterwards. Very few [...]

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Breast lift V breast augmentation

May 12, 2011

This is one of the most frequently asked questions plastic surgeons have to answer from prospective female patients. Few people know that the two are different procedures and each is performed to address a specific issue and they can bring about different results. The aesthetic objective a patient wants to achieve will tend to determine which [...]

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Liposuction study shows psychology plays a major part in body-image

May 9, 2011

Recently Obesity published a University of Colorado study which found that people who underwent liposuction surgery on their lower stomach or thighs (which tend to be the more common ‘problem’ areas for overweight people) gained weight back within a year – often in their upper-abdomen, shoulders and arms. The study therefore questioned whether liposuction  ‘moves’ [...]

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Survey finds cosmetic surgery is now widely accepted in US & UK

May 9, 2011

In 2011, 51% of the American population said they approved of plastic surgery. This was an increase of 3% on the previous year. These are the findings of the latest survey from ASAPS  – The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and demonstrates how year on year, the social attitudes to physical self-improvement are changing.

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Cool Sculpting: Helps to damage fat cells by cooling & freezing tissue

May 9, 2011

Recently the FDA has approved a new weight loss procedure called ‘Cool Sculpting’, which works by cooling and freezing tissue in a machine. This process damages the fat cells before damaging any other tissue, and once damaged these fat cells, over the following few days, simply die. Your body then flushes them out of your [...]

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