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Scalpel News.(Breast-Implant Bras)
Scalpel News
Breast-Implant Bras
Breast-Implant Bras B reast-augmentation surgery necessitates buying new bras. But "many women with implants find that conventionally designed bras have the wrong cup shape and underwire design" to support their enhanced breasts, says David Brothers, a plastic surgeon in Atlanta. He has created a line of underwire bras, Le Mystere No.9, to fit the rounder and more projected contour of augmented breasts, with their wider cleavage. Still, William P. Adams Jr., a plastic surgeon in Dallas, says that regular bras will fit well in some cases. "Just as women's breasts are very different from patient to patient before surgery, they are very different after surgery, and no one bra type works best for everyone."
Scalpel News
New Threads
Contour Threads, FDA-approved in 2004 for minimally invasive face-lifts, have been discontinued. Despite initial excitement, early thread-lift patients suffered side effects including infection and thread breakage or extrusion. Now, sturdier Silhouette Threads, studded with dissolving cones, have clearance. Inserted through a temple incision, the cones catch and hold tissue to tighten it, then dissolve after new collagen fibers have grown. But the developer, Nicanor Isse, a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach, California, has no data on how long a Silhouette Lift may last beyond two and a half years. (Face-lifts can ...
- Fresh starts begin with scalpel.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Heslam, Jessica June 13, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Jessica Heslam She exercised, ate better and even had a personal trainer come to her home. But after two pregnancies, the flat stomach she so longed for wasn't happening. The 53-year-old Cape Cod grandmother also realized there was nothing she could do about "the aging" of her face. So she
- Allure November 2002.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 24, 2002 700+ words
...glands in their skin, and those oil glands produce more oil, so cleansers and toners for men may be too drying for women. Scalpel News: Wrinkle Relief? A cream known for years to alleviate menopausal symptoms in women now shows promise in reducing facial...
- Boston-Area Cosmetic Surgeon Sues over Internet Postings by Former Patient.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 24, 2002 700+ words
...that it is hard for patients to get objective evaluations of surgeons' work. Joan Kron, who writes Allure magazine's Scalpel News column and has covered cosmetic surgery for 10 years, said there is lots of biased information on such Web sites as Faceforum...
- September 2002 Allure.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 21, 2002 700+ words
...scents lose their muscle, some women are even wearing these colognes themselves for their clean, no-frills fragrance. Scalpel News: A Gel That Repairs, page 145, by Joan Kron Skin that has been prematurely aged by sun or smoking can be repaired without...
- Allure January 2003.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 20, 2002 700+ words
...exercises, yoga postures to strengthen pelvic muscles, kissing techniques, sexual etiquette, and aphrodisiac cooking. Scalpel News: Cutting Out Cellulite Cellulite, the lumpy dimpling common on the buttocks and thighs, has stubbornly resisted a cure...