cosmetic surgery (plastic)

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Cosmetic Surgery, Women Wrinkle More & Earlier,

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Cosmetic Surgery, Women Wrinkle More & Earlier,

A recent study suggests that women may wrinkle earlier, more and deeper than men.

Although the study is only preliminary (only 25 male and 25 female cadavers where examined) it may point to a gender difference in the skin, particularly around the mouth.

If further studies can confirm the findings, and there are gender differences in the amount and type or wrinkles, then surgeons can take this into account.  Different types of treatment could be applied to male and female plastic surgery clients and greater forward planning could be achieved.

Other surgeries such as liposuction, gastric band and tummy tuck could also have gender factors which could be utilized to improve cosmetic surgery practice.

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Cosmetic Surgery, 80% of British Women Plastic Prefer Surgery To Diet & Exercise

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Cosmetic Surgery, 80% of British Women Plastic Prefer Surgery To Diet & Exercise

A recently published study claims that almost 80% of british women would rather use surgery to reduce their weight than change their eating and exercise patterns.

The most popular method of weight loss was liposuction at 34%, followed by a gastric band or bypass 26% with only 14% opting for cutting calories and 2% for exercising more regularly. 8% would like a tummy tuck.

Asked how they would like to lose excess weight, liposuction was the most popular with women (34 per cent), followed by gastric bypass (26 per cent) and cutting calories (14 per cent).

Over half the men polled would rather lose excess body fat through exercise than cosmetic surgery.

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Gastric Band, Plastic Surgery Adverts Banned In Spain, Tummy Tuck

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Gastric Band, Plastic Surgery Adverts Banned In Spain, Tummy Tuck

Spain has banned cosmetic surgery adverts before 10pm.  The ban also includes adverts for slimming and beauty products.

This step is the most recent in an ongoing campaign by the Spanish government against the so called “cult of the body”.  Spain has the highest number of cosmetic plastic surgery procedures such as liposuction and breast augmentation in Europe and a large number of cases of anorexia and bulimia.

Other steps the Spanish government have already taken is to ban zero sized models on catwalks during fashion week and stopped clothing shops from using the smallest size of dummies.

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Gastric Band, Half Of Americans Approve of Plastic Surgery, Tummy Tuck,

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Gastric Band, Half Of American Approve of Plastic Surgery, Tummy Tuck,

A recent study published by The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has revealed that almost half of Americans approve of cosmetic plastic surgery such as Liposuction and almost a quarter would consider it themselves.

There was a 14% difference between the approval quotient of the richest and poorest, with 62% of the richest approving of cosmetic surgery and only 48% of the poorest approving.

The study also showed that almost three quarters of women and two thirds of men would not be embarrassed if people knew they had cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetic Surgery, More Surgery For Osbourne?, Plastic Surgery,

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Cosmetic Surgery, More Surgery For Osbourne?, Plastic Surgery,

Sharon Osbourne has said that she is happy that she had plastic surgery and will consider getting more in the future.

In a recent interview the 57 year old Britain’s Got Talent judge said: “I had my facelift nine years ago and a couple of years ago I had all my jowly bits removed, but I’d never mess with my eyes or mouth. I’ve got good skin, but then it’s never been out in the sun. When people say women should grow old gracefully, I’m like ‘Shut up!’” adding: “I like to feel nice for Ozzy. God knows he stuck by me all those years when I looked like a bin-bag. Would I have another facelift? Yes.”

So what surgery might Sharon get?  She is obviously not a candidate for a gastric band or tummy tuck, but in the future she might consider liposuction, facial filler etc.

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