The Art of Cosmetic Surgery

Be sure to watch “What’s the Buzz” with Roseann Rogers, Saturday, February 11 at 5 p.m. and then again on Sunday, February 12 at 9:30 a.m. Dr. Nikko will be talking about cosmetic breast enhancement or augmentation

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Dr. Anthony Nikko heads up the Nikko Cosmetic Surgery Center in the Galleria area. This month Dr. Nikko talks about breast augmentation. For many women, breast size is an important part of feeling attractive. Cosmetic breast enhancement or augmentation is one of the most frequently performed procedures in the US. The procedure is used to enlarge small or underdeveloped breasts, as well as breasts that have decreased in size after pregnancy.

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Source: KSBW-TV
Silicone implants have been off the market for more than a decade, but last year the FDA gave its stamp of approval to a new generation of silicone implants — implants that are not yet available to the public.

The FDA never banned silicone breast implants, but when the government restricted their use for cosmetic purposes, most women were limited to saline implants.
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MSNBC
Once secretive, patients increasingly strut their stuff

When Sylvia Andis decided to get a face lift, it wasn’t something she tried to hide. In fact, she allowed a local news crew in Miami to document her experience. And a little over a month after going under the knife, she happily attended a “coming-out” luncheon thrown by her girlfriends.

“Patients used to stay in and come out a month or two later and pretend nothing happened,” says Andis, 49, a real-estate broker. “But it doesn’t bother me that people know.”

Once reserved for the rich and famous, cosmetic surgery has become increasingly common among mainstream Americans, and more widely accepted, too.
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Dr. Anthony Nikko heads up the Nikko Cosmetic Surgery Center in the Galleria area. Let’s face it, we all want to look our best, but as we age things tend to change. Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Nikko can help with the latest techniques to keep you looking healthy and feeling happy about your appearance. Fat graphing has been around for years and can be used all over the face and body. A small amount of fat is taken from a patient’s thighs or stomach then injected in layers to give a fuller appearance.

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Source: NY Times
LAST year Helena Rasin’s grandmother gave her $200 for Christmas. This year her grandmother gave her a new nose.

“A nose job is the best Christmas present ever because you’ll have it forever,” Ms. Rasin, 25, a drug company representative in Los Angeles, said two weeks ago while at home recuperating from her rhinoplasty. “It’s not like some sweater you don’t like and have to take back to the store. Even with the bandages still on, I can already tell I look cuter.”
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Source: CNN News
More than five years ago Katherine Dowling, from Manchester, England, was badly burnt in a house fire. A year ago, she discovered a procedure called Isolagen, which has healed the skin on her face. This is her story:
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Source: BBC news
The obsession with cosmetic surgery is obscuring the real work plastic surgeons do treating cancer patients and burn victims, leading doctors say.

They said the demand for cosmetic surgery fuelled by the media’s coverage of celebrities and TV programmes was having a negative effect. The British Association of Plastic Surgeons even said some people saw them in a similar vein as hairdressers. Instead, the surgeons said they were doctors who were there to heal people.

To stress their point, they gave examples at a London press briefing of people who had benefited from their work. In one case, a club bouncer who had had his nose cut off in a sword attack was given a new nose through nasal reconstruction.
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Source: BBC News
It has been technically possible to carry out such a transplant for some years, with teams in the US, the UK and France esearching the procedure. Skin from another person’s face is better for transplants as it will be a better match than skin from another part of the patient’s body, which could have a different texture or colour. But the ethical concerns of a face transplant, and the psychological impact to the patient of looking different has held teams back. Concerns relating to immunosuppression, psychological impact and the consequence of technical failure have so far prevented ethical approval of the procedure in the UK, though doctors here are fully able to perform transplants.

This is the first face transplant using skin from another person

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Source: BBC news
Scientists have discovered why it is often harder to keep weight off than to lose it in the first place. A team at New York’s Columbia University has shown the body’s internal systems act to restore fat levels in people who have slimmed down. The body appears to interpret the loss of weight as a deficiency in the appetite hormone leptin, and acts to try to restore the usual balance. The study features in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

We would predict that the human genome is heavily enriched with genes that defend body fatness
– Dr Michael Rosenbaum

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Source: NBC
Makers Hope Silicone Implants Will Be Approved In U.S.

A new type of breast implant already available in other countries may soon be making its way to the United States.

The implants are made up of a silicone gel different from the silicone implants that have been banned in this country, reported WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.
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