Chinese turn to plastic surgery in growing numbers

But her jaw line? Too square for her taste. As the 22-year-old television reporter recently travelled from one province to a private hospital in central Beijing to have transformed – for about $ 6000. Her boyfriend, a 29-year-old businessman wearing designer glasses, picked up the Bill.

-I'm not nervous, "said the Devil (English first name she chose for himself, and the only thing she would reveal) as she awaited surgery at Evercare Aikang hospital in central Beijing. "I look more sophisticated and delicious."

The breathtaking pace of transformation for upwardly mobile Chinese-from bicycles to cars, village, City, between the holidays to ski vacation — now extends to faces. In just a decade become cosmetic and plastic surgery is the fourth most popular way to spend discretionary income in China, according to Ma Xiaowei, China's vice health minister. Only houses, cars and travel rank higher, he said.

No official figures exist, but the international society of aesthetic plastic surgery 2009 estimated that China ranked third, behind the United States and Brazil, with more than two million annually. And the number of operations is doubling each year, Mr. Ma said at a conference organised by the Health Ministry in November.

"We must admit that the plastic and cosmetic surgery has now become a joint service aimed at the masses," he said.

Face lifts and Wrinkle-removal treatments are in vogue, as in the West. But at Evercare, who operates a chain of cosmetic surgery hospital in China, two-fifths of the patients are in their 20s, said Li Bin, general manager and co-founder.

Nationally, most requested operations have nothing to do with age: The No. 1 measure aims to make the eyes appear larger by adding a crease in the eyelid, which constitutes what is called a double eyelid, said Zhao Zhenmin, General Secretary of the Government-run Chinese Association of plastic and aesthetics.

The second most popular operation raises the bridge in the nose so that the more prominent – opposite of typical nose job in the West. Thirdly, the revision of the jaw so that the narrower and longer, "he said.

Youthful patients includes job seekers hope to increase their opportunities in the labour force, teenagers who have had cosmetic surgery as a high school graduation present and also middle school students, most of which want an eye job, said surgeons.

China's regulatory system, through all the sources have not kept. At the Conference in Beijing in November, Mr. Ma, Deputy health minister, said the situation "can also be called negligence."

11 Clinics and hospitals are offering cosmetic or plastic surgery that has been inspected late last year, said he met less than half the national standards. Staff lacked professional credentials, "he said. equipment and materials was subpar. Beauty parlors are obvious violations, illegal administer Botox injections and perform eyelid surgery.

Mr. Ma was similar to the industry at a medical "emergency zone" with frequent accidents. His point was underlined when a 24-year-old former contestants on Chinese reality show "Super Girl" died after his windpipe filled with blood during an operation to transform his jaw in Hubei Province.

Health officials demanded an investigation. But Mr. Zhao, who also serves as Deputy Head of Beijing's Government-run plastic and cosmetic surgery hospital, said that it was impossible to gather evidence because the body was cremated soon – a standard in China when the hospital privately settle claims as unjustified.

-Personally, I think it's quite disgusting, "he said. "We need to get to the bottom of such cases to protect people in the future."

Shortcomings in China's medical system is hardly limited to cosmetics and plastic surgery. But the industry now generates an estimated 2.3 billion dollars in revenues, and the Government has begun to note. Officials say the new regulations will probably be issued this year.

An explicit goal is to stop the flow of Chinese patients to better established hospitals in South Korea. Mr. Ma estimates that Chinese account for 30% of cosmetic surgery patients in Seoul.

Now many beauty salons, as well as a downtown Beijing Branch of a major chain, capitalizing on the lack of supervision. One recent afternoon, said a 62-year-old woman in a white coat who described herself as a doctor she could call a doctor who can give the visitor the double eyelids in 20 minutes, about $ 180, a fraction of the fee as a standard hospital.

"Immediately you will look different," she said.

Shi Da, Li Jing Zhang, Bibo and Jonathan Kaiman contributed research.

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Breast surgery requires reconstruction Talk, the law says

After her mastectomy in April Alantheia Pena cried for the loss of her breast. Her partner told her not to worry about flat spot on its chest, but she could tell it bothered him when he looked away as she took off her shirt.

It was a friendly Secretary where she went to get his prosthesis, an artificial breasts fill her clothes, who noticed her cry and told her that she could have her breast cancer was reconstructed with health insurance that covers costs. Ms. Pena said his cancer surgeon had told her.

A law on State was signed Sunday by Gov David a. Paterson now require New York hospitals and doctors to discuss options for breast cancer reconstruction with their patients before cancer surgery, providing them with information on insurance and to refer them to another hospital, where it is needed for reconstructive surgery.

The law came largely through the efforts of Dr. Evan Garfein, plastic surgeon at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx who gave Ms. Pena, who turns 48 next week, a new breast, which made her so happy she wore a bikini last month for the first time in his life.

"It gave me back my life," said Ms. Pena, running H.I.V. Ministry of Friendship Baptist Church in Brooklyn and lives in the Bronx, on Wednesday. "It's like my breasts. It is beautiful. It is perfect. It is a perfect breasts. "

Dr. Garfein, who specializes in reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, head and neck cancer, said he had pushed for the law after a friend of his, Dr. Caprice Christian Greenberg, wrote a document showing that the poor, minority women were much less likely to get breast cancer reconstruction after cancer than better-off women.

Congress guaranteed universal coverage for breast cancer reconstruction after cancer surgery in 1998. But Dr. Garfein said that only 30-40% of women who have had mastectomies now breast cancer reconstruction.

Dr. Garfein said the number would be closer to 75% if more women were informed of their options. Ms. Pena, covered by Medicaid, had his surgery at North General Hospital in Harlem, which is disused, but she said his doctors had never discussed breast reconstruction with her.

One reason for the low proportion of reconstruction, Dr. Garfein said, be shortage of plastic surgeons outside of large academic medical centres, and another can be financial. Medicaid pays about $ 11,000 to $ 15,000 to the hospital and $ 540 to the surgeon, according to Montefiore.

Repayment can vary from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars with private insurance, and some patients may have entire costs covered, while others may have to pay 30 percent, according to Dr. Scott Breidbart, Medical Director of Empire BlueCross BlueShield.

Ms. Pena is still recovering from cancer, but with her new breasts, she said, "at the end of it, you see some kind of rainbow".

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Venezuela's newest enemy: Breast lifts

The blame for the increase in such operations, Mr. Ch?vez said on State television over the weekend, rested with the doctors who "convinces some women that if they do not have large bosoms, they should feel bad." He said there was a "monstrous thing" that poor women seeking breast lifts when they had trouble making ends meet.

"What is this, friend?" Mr. Ch?vez declared its viewers.

Mr. Ch?vez's comments come at a time when Venezuela has emerged as one of the world's leading markets for breast augmentation. Between 30 000 and 40 000 women here to undergo the procedure each year according to the calculations of the Venezuelan society of plastic surgeons.

Signs in Caracas advertise bank loans to surgery. Gossip Blogs speculate on improvements to the participants of the Miss Venezuela pageant. Last year, tried a candidate to the national Assembly, Gustavo Rojas, to finance his campaign by raffling of breast cancer elevator (he lost anyway).

"I've never seen more silicone elsewhere," said Mireia Sallar?s, a filmmaker from Spain that focuses on feminist issues and are working on a project about Venezuela, the newspaper Tal Cual.

Mr. Ch?vez regretted the amount of money spent on cosmetic breast surgery, there are also a darker side with procedures with reports of surgical mistakes resulting in death in some patients. A 20-year-old woman, Paola Rios, died in Caracas this month due to complications from breast augmentation surgery.

Mr. Ch?vez's position on a tripod in Venezuelan popular culture encouraged rapid reactions from some quarters, particularly the medical profession. "I think not enough, there should be some kind of discrimination of these aesthetic procedures," said Dr. Ram?n Zapata Sirvent, leading plastic surgeon here.

In an acerbic leader on the subject on Monday with the opposition newspaper El Nacional Mr. Ch?vez Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, who regard Mr. Ch?vez as a friend. "Now, this obsolete militarist, repressive attitude of the rough, on women's freedom to do what they want with their bodies," said El Nacional.

President, however, made it clear that breast augmentation did not square well with his revolutionary priorities. He said that among thousands of letters he receives from supporters, arrived asking for his help for breast cancer Elevator, which would cost as much as $ 7,000. "Of course I had to reject it," he said.

State media agreement with the President on the subject. The State newspaper the Correo del Orinoco claimed this month that plastic surgery was "as common as dentist appointments, and it is not unusual for wealthy parents proudly buy his 15-year-old daughters breast implants for" come of age "birthday."

Maria Eugenia Diaz contributed reporting.

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Less-invasive alternative to tackle the Sagging neck

But it turns out that is not true. These days, less-invasive alternative to enhance the appearance of his neck, provided that there is a full-scale Turkey wood. As a Romance, a neck go wrong in many ways. Weight gain or genetics may lead to a double chin. Loose skin can worsen underlying lax muscles. Neck-lift (on your own or with appearance) remains the best basis for a striking, lasting correction.

But cautious liposuctioning superfluous fat can also help streamline full throat, especially those who have still relatively youthful elastic skin that can bounce back after the procedure. The trick is not to be suctioned to point see skeleton (it should look at the underlying Loose the bands of muscle, which become more obvious after).

If the problem is these isolated bands, inject Botox in your neck muscle can make them less conspicuous in a patient with large colour, "said Dr. Rod Rohrich j., Chair of the Department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. But patch lasts only three to four months.

Promoted over the past year "the Rachael Ray Show", Ulthera is a new lifting skin procedure with focused ultrasound to trigger collagen growth depth under the epidermis. A single treatment can improve the outlines of the under-chin laxity in patients around 40-55 years old who believe that they are not ready for surgery or amenable to it, several doctors said, including Dr. Matthew White, photo by plastic surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center. Ulthera handpiece printed on the skin can doctors to see underlying layers onto a screen (as with gynaecological ultrasound) before entering treatment, a first noninvasive dermatological procedures. "We deposit energy into an exact depth below the surface of the skin, without interfering with the intermediate tissue," said Matthew Likens, CEO of Ulthera, Mesa, Ariz., the company behind it.

Patients may feel pain during treatment. Potential candidates should also be aware that peer-reviewed published studies have yet to quantify just how much sharpening can be expected in the neck and lower face. -It is true, confirmed Mr. Likens. (Research continues, "he says.)

Not to stop Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiologist, from proclaiming his television show last month that Ulthera was a "revolutionary nonsurgical facelift" and promises to get rid of a viewer sagging necks live scene. In the segment, "said Dr. Haideh Hirmand, plastic surgeon in Manhattan, it was the first time she was" really excited "about a noninvasive technique for lifting of tissue. She stressed that there is no substitute for Ulthera surgery, neck skin is too loose. (In a later interview she recommended a pain medication such as Percocet and antianxiety drugs Valium before treatment, which she said was worth for minimal neck looseness.)

"The company will tell you it's easier to do," said Dr. Tina Alster, a dermatologist in Washington, which has left a pain and an antianxiety medicines mandatory for her Ulthera patients. As I said, Dr. Alster, who will receive a scholarship for research from Ulthera to study its effect on the outside face areas, is to see the results in the area of eyebrows, Cheeks and neck of middle-aged patients.

The segment "Dr. Oz" left the impression that the device has been cleared of Ulthera Food and Drug Administration used for the neck and lower face and eyebrow area.

Not so. "The company can only promote device for eyebrows-lift," Although treatment schedule includes the Cheeks and throat, also Karen Riley, a spokeswoman for the Agency, wrote in an e-mail message. -But they can make any claims with respect to these areas and cannot promote their device for treating specific conditions in these areas. (As with other procedures, but the doctors can treat other body parts at our own discretion.)

Nina Fritz Meyerhof, who runs the children on Earth, an organization for peace, was willing to chance it when she met Dr. White this month to firm up for Ulthera her neck and jawline. "I wanted everything to look fresh and tight," she said.

68 Is Ms. Fritz Meyerhof, of South Burlington, Vt., a decade or two older than Dr. White typical candidate, someone who is just starting to Notice during the chin skin laxity. But Dr. White, who has studied the focused ultrasound, knew his skin was still so elastic that it would tighten. (How fast the skin ages vary with factors such as sun exposure, genetics and smoking – which may be why your older pal neck skin is taut while your gave way at 47.)

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"Vampire Face Lifts": Selphyl injections of your blood platelets

In fact, it is not surgery, a procedure in the office which carries blood from the arm, then spun in a Centrifuge to separate out platelets. They are then injected in your face, hoping to stimulate new collagen production. Selphyl, that regime is called, arrived the flourishing ansiktsbehandling-regeneration market in 2009 and is now used by about 300 doctors across the country in the name of beauty, says Sanjay Batra, Managing Director of aesthetic factors which produce Selphyl system.

This year has "Vampire facelift" been promoted on "The Rachael Ray Show" and "doctor." It has also been broadcast in more than a dozen local news programs, some of which are presented unproved claim that results will last two years.

Dr. Drew Ordon, one of the hosts of "The doctor" and targeting plastic surgeon, gushed on air,-vampires have moved into plastic surgery, too, and I am one of them, the patient in his segment had also recently her own fat in her face to the Oh, so it was not clear that platelets had anything to do with her fresher look. (Not to be stopped the audience's applause.)

Eerie sounds, some procedure that patients prefer the idea of using their own blood rather than a Neurotoxin or synthetic filler to rejuvenate their faces. "We all want to see better," said Joan Sarlo, 56, who underwent a Selphyl "vamp-lifting", performed by Dr. Lisa a. Zdinak, Manhattan-based doctor whose specialty is ophthalmic plastic surgery. But the "less unnatural better," Ms. Sarlo said. "What can be better than your own blood?"

Some doctors say that Fillers from the body is less likely to cause irregularities and knocks the agenda areas than synthetic as Sculptra aesthetic. But now, it is difficult to talk about "Platelet-Rich fibrin matrix" or P.R.F.M. (the medical term for the Golden-hued platelets Selphyl extract), is an effective filler for hollowed-out cheeks and wrinkles.

Dr. Anthony p. Sclafani, Director of facial plastic surgery at New York eye and Ear Infirmary, said he has seen the effects of P.R.F.M. on revivifying cosmetic patients last for more than a year — sometimes 18-24 months. (Dr. Sclafani is a paid consultant for aesthetic elements, and most of his research on Selphyl has been funded by the company.)

But no national clinical trial has been done to prove such claims. "There is simply no objective data out there to justify the claim of two years," Dr. Jeffrey m. Kenkel, specialising in plastic surgeon and spokesman for the physicians Coalition for injectable safety, wrote in an e-mail message.

Dr. Phil Haeck, Chairman of the American Society of plastic surgeons, plagued by a lack of research proving the effect of Selphyl, which costs $ 900 to $ 1,500 for a procedure which takes less than half an hour. "There are no scientific studies, the only personal certificates," he said, adding that he thinks that "celebrate" the concept is so obsolete that bloodletting to cure the disease. "This is another gimmick that people use to make themselves stand out on the Internet in a true everyone part of medicine".

In addition, doctors and consumers are not clear to which Selphyl account in F.D.A. Focus family medicine physician who works by refining MediSpa in Johnson City, Tenn., tells consumers that Selphyl is in a YouTube video with Dr. John Argerson, a "recently approved F.D.A. fillers" for the nose to lip creases. And in an article in the December 2009 in dermatology times, a trade publication, Dr. Ranella Hirsch, dermatologist, said Selphyl is "a new F.D.A. approved dermal absorption fillers." This week, Dr. Hirsch, who do not use Selphyl in their practice, said she could not explain why she misspoke, adding to an e-mail message to "the lack of clarity between F.D.A. approval versus F.D.A. finish in the market is an important point."

Actually. F.D.A has not been approved. or cleared P.R.F.M. derived in a Selphyl Centrifuge marketed for Facial rejuvenation. 2002 Cleared the Agency a blood-insamlingssystem called Fibrinet, whose Platelet-rich by-products orthopedic physician then be used to accelerate tissue repair. in 2009, This same machine was born again as Selphyl, and since then, the company promoted it as a way to "reverse the natural aging process." This week, said Shelly Burgess, a spokesman to F.D.A. Selphyl's maker must file an amendment in order to obtain approval to market its system for the collection of blood in a new way, and any such change can be found on this letter.

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Dominique Browning's Argument for natural ageing

Now, before someone starts to turn defensive, let me defensive. This is not an essay about why I am categorically opposed to cosmetic surgery. I as supportive as the next gal if a certain someone feels so bad about her neck as she does not leave home, or if another is so heavy-lidded that he misses half image every time he blinks. Plastic surgeons have done wondrous things.

As regards dissemination of minor cosmetic procedures? Those that your dentist is offering to do while he is in the vicinity of the mouth? Injections of filler to plump up lips, smooth wrinkles, pad out laughter lines? Now it's a wonder that salesclerk at Barneys does not offer to postpone your face while you are searching on hats.

Again, I am not against it. Well, maybe Botox. I am calling for a RANT when my friends is on the verge of approach to the PIN. I mean, who wants to bring a gift so deadly that it paralyzes nerves, sending small muscles to atrophy?

I'm not categorically opposed to a helping hand, so long as it has finesse. My current rule of thumb, when confronted with an improved face, is that if I am vaguely wondering if it was work, change was well done. But these days, I wonder why – why did you?

We have gone too far. I am very, very afraid.

We have reached a stage where cosmetic surgery is so easily accessible to in some circles it is expected of men and women to make use of these age-deny. (You cannot call them youth-sticker when you are no longer young.) If you choose not to take advantage of the benefits of needle-knife, deemed to be to make a statement. You take a stand against the current standards of beauty.

We have triggered a strange, collective, late onset of body dysmorphia. What is worse is that our fears about aging have trickled into our children's generation, so that the mantra about cosmetic procedures including among some 30-year-olds are "intervene early and often."

I began to worry about all this a year ago when I was on a book tour. I love reading aloud and watching people's faces as they listen. Within weeks, I was deeply in touch with my inner ham. Sometimes, I found myself Sila for a response. I would look at the audience, hear laughter and heckling, but sees only drove masks. Even afterwards, would these same faces telling me how much they had loved my presentation. It took a while to realise that people had trouble expressing sentiments in their functions.

This is also when I started developing problem "who are you?".

Too many people have had procedures that have gone wrong. They look strange and tragic. Is it inevitable? You do one thing, the effects are beginning to fade, you make another, and so on. You get puffy. You get numb. Or you picture. And I wonder. No one said "stop"? Has no one, especially the chopped needle, gently advised against further work? It used to be a rare sight site cosmetic surgery addicts, but it has been surprisingly common.

We are now in a position to watch politicians and newscasters talking about worrying questions — like, say, our education system, or environmental degradation – but they cannot muster signals to concern and less dismayed.

An evening catch in a segment on TV about disarmament. A celebrity spokesperson makes a case for fixing the amount of weapons, and part of my brain clicked gear: she is smart and passionate. But another part of me is distracted, because Visual does not match the message. Her forehead is not crimp with concern. her Cheeks are not crinkling with smileys. her eyes does not reduce the suspicion of trick questions. No matter what she says, her face, frozen in place. It is grotesque fascinating — and I know it before, is the interview above. Medium error message.

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Less-invasive alternative to tackle the Sagging neck

But it turns out that is not true. These days, less-invasive alternative to enhance the appearance of his neck, provided that there is a full-scale Turkey wood. As a Romance, a neck go wrong in many ways. Weight gain or genetics may lead to a double chin. Loose skin can worsen underlying lax muscles. Neck-lift (on your own or with appearance) remains the best basis for a striking, lasting correction.

But cautious liposuctioning superfluous fat can also help streamline full throat, especially those who have still relatively youthful elastic skin that can bounce back after the procedure. The trick is not to be suctioned to point see skeleton (it should look at the underlying Loose the bands of muscle, which become more obvious after).

If the problem is these isolated bands, inject Botox in your neck muscle can make them less conspicuous in a patient with large colour, "said Dr. Rod Rohrich j., Chair of the Department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. But patch lasts only three to four months.

Promoted over the past year "the Rachael Ray Show", Ulthera is a new lifting skin procedure with focused ultrasound to trigger collagen growth depth under the epidermis. A single treatment can improve the outlines of the under-chin laxity in patients around 40-55 years old who believe that they are not ready for surgery or amenable to it, several doctors said, including Dr. Matthew White, photo by plastic surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center. Ulthera handpiece printed on the skin can doctors to see underlying layers onto a screen (as with gynaecological ultrasound) before entering treatment, a first noninvasive dermatological procedures. "We deposit energy into an exact depth below the surface of the skin, without interfering with the intermediate tissue," said Matthew Likens, CEO of Ulthera, Mesa, Ariz., the company behind it.

Patients may feel pain during treatment. Potential candidates should also be aware that peer-reviewed published studies have yet to quantify just how much sharpening can be expected in the neck and lower face. -It is true, confirmed Mr. Likens. (Research continues, "he says.)

Not to stop Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiologist, from proclaiming his television show last month that Ulthera was a "revolutionary nonsurgical facelift" and promises to get rid of a viewer sagging necks live scene. In the segment, "said Dr. Haideh Hirmand, plastic surgeon in Manhattan, it was the first time she was" really excited "about a noninvasive technique for lifting of tissue. She stressed that there is no substitute for Ulthera surgery, neck skin is too loose. (In a later interview she recommended a pain medication such as Percocet and antianxiety drugs Valium before treatment, which she said was worth for minimal neck looseness.)

"The company will tell you it's easier to do," said Dr. Tina Alster, a dermatologist in Washington, which has left a pain and an antianxiety medicines mandatory for her Ulthera patients. As I said, Dr. Alster, who will receive a scholarship for research from Ulthera to study its effect on the outside face areas, is to see the results in the area of eyebrows, Cheeks and neck of middle-aged patients.

The segment "Dr. Oz" left the impression that the device has been cleared of Ulthera Food and Drug Administration used for the neck and lower face and eyebrow area.

Not so. "The company can only promote device for eyebrows-lift," Although treatment schedule includes the Cheeks and throat, also Karen Riley, a spokeswoman for the Agency, wrote in an e-mail message. -But they can make any claims with respect to these areas and cannot promote their device for treating specific conditions in these areas. (As with other procedures, but the doctors can treat other body parts at our own discretion.)

Nina Fritz Meyerhof, who runs the children on Earth, an organization for peace, was willing to chance it when she met Dr. White this month to firm up for Ulthera her neck and jawline. "I wanted everything to look fresh and tight," she said.

68 Is Ms. Fritz Meyerhof, of South Burlington, Vt., a decade or two older than Dr. White typical candidate, someone who is just starting to Notice during the chin skin laxity. But Dr. White, who has studied the focused ultrasound, knew his skin was still so elastic that it would tighten. (How fast the skin ages vary with factors such as sun exposure, genetics and smoking – which may be why your older pal neck skin is taut while your gave way at 47.)

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Plastic surgery Group launches advice Web site

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A little too ready for her close-up?

In small but significant number of beginning filmmakers and casting executives reconsider Hollywood's attitude to breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all forms of plastic surgery.

TV executives at Fox Broadcasting, says for example they have begun to recruit more natural looking players from Australia and the United Kingdom since more than well endowed, freakishly young looking crowd shows up for applicants in Los Angeles is suffering from too much sameness.

"I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper" said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox scripted shows.

Independent casting directors as Mindy Marin, who worked with Jason Reitman film "Up in the Air", is a talent agent to counteract invites clients to have surgery, especially older celebrities as she argues, lose their jobs because their skin is too tense or swollen with. Said Ms. Marin: "what I want to see is real."

Also extra sheep once-over. Sande Alessi, who helped throw the films "Caribbean pirates", said she is offering to photograph actresses in their bathing suits, tell me if they can keep the photo for their audition books.

Professional courtesy? Not necessarily. Moviemakers prefer actresses with natural boobs for the costume dramas and period films. So much so that when the Walt Disney Company announced recently for extras for the new "Pirates" movie, casting call indicated that only women with real boobs need apply. By taking a photograph, Ms. Alessi said, "we need not ask, we."

Step towards a ' less is more "is operated by a series of conflicting social and technological developments, said more than a dozen film and television technicians.

Cosmetic improvements still popular, with 10 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures are performed in the United States during 2009, according to the American society for aesthetic plastic surgery. At the same time, the proliferation of HD television — as well as a curious generally trained eye – has made it easier to find a celebrity poorly sewn hairline or botched eyelid lift.

Men, is, of course, not immune to the lure of a youthful Surgeon a scalpel. But there are women, to no surprise, as the closest is to be examined.

Botox is the enemy in a post-"Avatar", 3-D infatuated Hollywood, where in possibility to crumple a mouth to a frown is as important as remembering his lines. More frightening is how young plastic surgery supporters become. In January was the actress Heidi Montag on the cover of people magazine, touting the 10 cosmetic procedures, she had a day. She is 23.

"Era" I see great since I did this to myself "has gone through," said Shawn Levy, Director and producer of "Date Night" and "night at the Museum" films. "It is seen as ridiculous. Ten years ago had actresses feeling that they had to have plastic surgery to get the part. Now, I think it works against them. Go to a casting session low. looks fake their chances "

Few in Hollywood is prepared to admit that the Chin reduction or mini eyebrow lift. (Remember when Jennifer Grey admitted to nose job, a move that some say are damaging his career?) Celebrities are more open to discuss a previous drug problems or sex addiction, because there is less concern about a confession which will damage their careers. But with so many types of cosmetic rejiggering is often painfully obvious and result difficult to fix.

Ms. Shulman, Fox met an agent recently to discuss hiring an actress who apparently had work. "What she did to his face?" Ms. Shulman said she asked the agent. "He said," nothing ". I lightly. I will just not to argue. I said, ' she is not for me then. " ”

Head shots, is no longer reliable. Ms. Marin said she sometimes checks AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, an advertising site that portrays the surgically enhanced, confirming suspicions of who edited what. When Ms. Alessi throwing "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in 2007, she received hundreds of head shots. Some of the actresses who arrived for the audition, however, saw nothing like their photographs.

"They would have these huge puffy lips and frozen units," said she. "you say to yourself," Oh, I can't use you. ", I received not if they do a little bit of something, but it may not be obvious."

An actor can also lose a role of a Director, if the suspect surgery was performed or not. John Papsidera, a casting director for "Batman" films, said he and a Director (he declined to say which one) recently discussed whether to hire an actor in his early 20s to play a teenager, falling in love. The actress was talented and naturally beautiful. But how did the Director was his suspicions that such young, she already had breast implants.

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A Haitian family reunites in Miami, by Video

-I want to ask him something, "said the boy's sister, Mary Rose, 28, in Port-au-Prince, pointing to Chad Henne, Miami Dolphins quarterback. She smiled coyly. Everyone expected her to ask for a date.

She asked, instead of a tent.

Mr. Her looked surprised. "We can try," he said.

Celebrities and refugees are oil and water in this tropical town, which rarely mix outside of valet parking. The Haiti earthquake on January 12, however, has repeatedly upset the usual hierarchy. And so it was on Monday that in a part of Miami Vice President Joseph r. Biden Jr. met with Haitian-American leaders to discuss Haiti's redevelopment. In another separated a celebrated babies named Jane were reunited with their parents while Haitian here at Notre Dame D ' Ha?ti Catholic Church in Little Haiti, technology brought together dazzle, need and a family.

In two rooms linked by broadband, false tragedy became. When Amelise Jean-Baptiste and her son Exais Peterson saw half a dozen relatives in Haiti on a larger TV, was their travails and triumphs all had. Peterson, seizures and the boy is called, in the limelight.

"Stand up, let me look at you," said his sister. He puffed out his chest and smiled. She asked him to turn his head. His left ear still missing its lower LOBE. part of his stomach looked so ragged that gravel. But his family in Port-au-Prince looked happy.

Peter Mandelson's recovery was marvellous.

Much of his face had been virtually disappeared when his neighbors him out of the rubble of his home in Port-au-Prince, four days after the earthquake.

Dr. Chad Perlyn, plastic surgeon, recalled that the lift boy's bandages at the University of Miami field hospital in Haiti, and discover hundreds of maggots. "He lost most of his cheek and scalp," said Dr. Perlyn. "His whole body was infected."

Peterson and his mother flew out on a military flight and landed at Miami children's Hospital, where Dr. Perlyn methods. Eleven measures later Peterson is learn English and lives with his mother in a hotel with the families of 18 other children who fled after the earthquake.

He told his relatives at home that he was satisfied. His mother said the same thing, and it took a little time for the family to lose out to catch up.

Half an hour in publicists reminded the translators that there were stars in the room. "Tell them who are here with you," says David Saltz, usually producing Super Bowl half time show. But nobody listens.

Eventually the family was in Mr. her and Pras Michel, a hip-hop artist from the Fugees. Family smiled kindly.

Mr. Her later said that he had been inspired by the family's strength and stamina to plan a trip to Haiti on Sunday to deliver a tent in person. But more than a roof over their heads, relatives in Port-au-Prince said they wanted an assurance that Peterson could stay in the United States permanently.

Conditions are so poor that "return to Haiti right now is certain death," says Mary Rose. Peterson has to stay, she added, "even if it means we are dying so he can live."

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Cosmetic surgery Gets a little NIP and Tuck

Such procedures, including nose jobs, eyelid surgery, liposuction, tummy tucks and breast cancer industrial cooperation, reduced in number by nearly 9% in 2009, the society reported Tuesday, 1,521,409 from 1,669,026 2008. Nose jobs, eyelid surgery fell 8 percent among the doctors who answered the survey, 715, while liposuction were down a whopping 19 percent. Tummy tucks and breast cancer industrial cooperation decreased 5 and 6 per cent, respectively.

Wallet questions can be the story behind the numbers — an action that a tummy tuck costs on average $ 4,936, with the exception of thousands of dollars in anaesthesia and operating room. But maybe the Americans also started to make the best of their glances, invest in closet improvement instead of, say, liposuction.

-Cosmetic surgery is an object of luxury, says Dr. Michael f. McGuire, President of the American Society of plastic surgeons, who practices in Los Angeles. "People are thinking twice about money, even if they have it, I have noticed very wealthy patients, they postpone."

Dr. McGuire believes the deferrers eventually will have the operation as they wish. "People there, but if you have been unhappy about something, you will get it fixed," he said.

The numbers entered by the American Society of plastic surgeons offer a valuable snapshot, but they are not definitive. The doctor replies to a survey cannot answer it next year. And the numbers are not doctors who perform cosmetic procedures and trained in, say, obstetrics-gynaecology and general medicine.

Declines in this study also another recent survey by the American Society for aesthetic plastic surgery, which found an even steeper decline in cosmetic-surgery procedures performed last year to 18 percent.

Some doctors even expresses confidence that there is pent up demand. Dr. Robert Singer, a plastic surgeon in San Diego, said that people have tried less expensive alternative to the procedures they want.

For example, some patients have "chosen to be fillers or Botox because they felt – and it was marketed to them – is it instead of a facelift," Dr. Singer said. But "it does not provide the results they wanted."

Other patients "had a reasonable consequence" of which is injected with a combination of Botox and fillers, "says Dr. Singer, a former President of the American Society for aesthetic plastic surgery. But the result is temporary, and some of these patients now want a longer-lasting surgical improvement of their face, "he said.

Realself.com, a website where patients discuss cosmetic procedures, recently did a survey with Harris Interactive to get a feel for how many consumers it is aesthetic dreams deferred. In an idealized world in which we all have enough money, they asked, how many of us would opt for cosmetic changes? Sixty-nine percent of the nationwide sample of 2,148 adults were surveyed in March said they would choose to have cosmetic work, up from 54 percent who said the same thing in November 2009.

Tom Seery, President and founder of Realself.com, said in an interview that the site's traffic grew and that visitors viewed-strength and interest around cosmetic surgery on invasive page.

For the first time reported the physician were examined by the American Society of plastic surgeons, surprisingly, that the number of Wrinkle-botulinum toxin injections administered freezing decreased by 4%. Last year, approved by the Food and Drug Administration of Dysport for smoothing wrinkles between the eyebrows, deselect to give Botox a run for its market share. But it seems that came just as the Americans Dysport is not decided to get as many botulinum toxin injections for aesthetic problems, perhaps a sign of a fatigue among people who received routine injections for maintenance.

"You've had it for several years, every couple of months, first of all, you've spent a lot of money," said Dr. McGuire, renewing the Botox and Dysport. -Added, and it hurts every time you have. A staggeringly large number of doses of Botox or Dysport was still injected in 2009: 4,795,357, at $ 405 each on average. Such injections would remain the top minimally invasive cosmetic procedure.

Some obscure cosmetic operations increased in 2009, despite their not insignificant costs. It was a small uptick in calf support system, which involves using a silicone implant to improve calves up to 259, from 247. Surgical pumping calves is not cheap — $ amounted on average – but apparently ballerina and Bodybuilders will find them valuable. "To be a success as a ballerina, that's about as much your appearance and your ability to dance," Dr. McGuire said. "You may have good muscle, but it has no shape or appearance which is considered to be optimally."

LIP industrial cooperation by means of a physical implants, which costs on average $ 1,736, is also increasing. More than 21,000 people had lips filled in this way as opposed to, say, on a regular basis with the lips are injected with a. Uptick is especially remarkable considering that no lasting lip implant approved for that purpose by the Food and Drug Administration, which means that this use cannot be marketed by the company. Doctors may instead choose to use an implant approved for another part of the face.

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Chinese turn to plastic surgery in growing numbers

But her jaw line? Too square for her taste. As the 22-year-old television reporter recently travelled from one province to a private hospital in central Beijing to have transformed – for about $ 6000. Her boyfriend, a 29-year-old businessman wearing designer glasses, picked up the Bill.

-I'm not nervous, "said the Devil (English first name she chose for himself, and the only thing she would reveal) as she awaited surgery at Evercare Aikang hospital in central Beijing. "I look more sophisticated and delicious."

The breathtaking pace of transformation for upwardly mobile Chinese-from bicycles to cars, village, City, between the holidays to ski vacation — now extends to faces. In just a decade become cosmetic and plastic surgery is the fourth most popular way to spend discretionary income in China, according to Ma Xiaowei, China's vice health minister. Only houses, cars and travel rank higher, he said.

No official figures exist, but the international society of aesthetic plastic surgery 2009 estimated that China ranked third, behind the United States and Brazil, with more than two million annually. And the number of operations is doubling each year, Mr. Ma said at a conference organised by the Health Ministry in November.

"We must admit that the plastic and cosmetic surgery has now become a joint service aimed at the masses," he said.

Face lifts and Wrinkle-removal treatments are in vogue, as in the West. But at Evercare, who operates a chain of cosmetic surgery hospital in China, two-fifths of the patients are in their 20s, said Li Bin, general manager and co-founder.

Nationally, most requested operations have nothing to do with age: The No. 1 measure aims to make the eyes appear larger by adding a crease in the eyelid, which constitutes what is called a double eyelid, said Zhao Zhenmin, General Secretary of the Government-run Chinese Association of plastic and aesthetics.

The second most popular operation raises the bridge in the nose so that the more prominent – opposite of typical nose job in the West. Thirdly, the revision of the jaw so that the narrower and longer, "he said.

Youthful patients includes job seekers hope to increase their opportunities in the labour force, teenagers who have had cosmetic surgery as a high school graduation present and also middle school students, most of which want an eye job, said surgeons.

China's regulatory system, through all the sources have not kept. At the Conference in Beijing in November, Mr. Ma, Deputy health minister, said the situation "can also be called negligence."

11 Clinics and hospitals are offering cosmetic or plastic surgery that has been inspected late last year, said he met less than half the national standards. Staff lacked professional credentials, "he said. equipment and materials was subpar. Beauty parlors are obvious violations, illegal administer Botox injections and perform eyelid surgery.

Mr. Ma was similar to the industry at a medical "emergency zone" with frequent accidents. His point was underlined when a 24-year-old former contestants on Chinese reality show "Super Girl" died after his windpipe filled with blood during an operation to transform his jaw in Hubei Province.

Health officials demanded an investigation. But Mr. Zhao, who also serves as Deputy Head of Beijing's Government-run plastic and cosmetic surgery hospital, said that it was impossible to gather evidence because the body was cremated soon – a standard in China when the hospital privately settle claims as unjustified.

-Personally, I think it's quite disgusting, "he said. "We need to get to the bottom of such cases to protect people in the future."

Shortcomings in China's medical system is hardly limited to cosmetics and plastic surgery. But the industry now generates an estimated 2.3 billion dollars in revenues, and the Government has begun to note. Officials say the new regulations will probably be issued this year.

An explicit goal is to stop the flow of Chinese patients to better established hospitals in South Korea. Mr. Ma estimates that Chinese account for 30% of cosmetic surgery patients in Seoul.

Now many beauty salons, as well as a downtown Beijing Branch of a major chain, capitalizing on the lack of supervision. One recent afternoon, said a 62-year-old woman in a white coat who described herself as a doctor she could call a doctor who can give the visitor the double eyelids in 20 minutes, about $ 180, a fraction of the fee as a standard hospital.

"Immediately you will look different," she said.

Shi Da, Li Jing Zhang, Bibo and Jonathan Kaiman contributed research.

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Appreciate your value as you age

It would be easy to dismiss fear that such an aesthetic concern as weak. But two models-turned-psychotherapists argues in "Face It," their new guide for women, to contend with changing appearance can be less intimidating than having a financial loss, a demotion at work or a divorce.

After decades of counselling patients, says Dr. Vivian Diller and Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick that fears about growing older can spur an existential crisis of sorts. Such a fear is not about vanity per se, but has more to with a loss of opportunities and questioning his place in the world. It can lead to depression, alcohol abuse or disruption favourable sleep, they say.

Yet are usually not in the list, brief therapy solutions for squabbling with an aesthetic "problem". A lunch laser treatment or a $ 180 face cream is.

Dr. Diller, 56, and Dr. Muir-Sukenick, 57, is here to talk about American women — no matter how stellar their achievements – it is not superficial recognise the ageing is undeterred. They encourage their readers to figure out what drives them to daydreams about a subtle facelift instead of schedule one.

At a time when cosmetic surgery ever to be seen as a casual endeavor, and anti-aging injections as inevitable, "Face It" giving women the practical steps to analyze what they look at this beauty paradox. "Should women simply grow old naturally because their looks do not define them, or should they fight signs of aging, because beauty and youth is their currency and power?" asks writers in his book.

The answer is not simple, in 20 years worth of patient information that the book is based on is any indication. (The respondents also other women, 30-65, including models because they sometimes consult with modelling agencies.)

Mandate not to see your age has never been stronger. "We are talking about a generation of pioneers," said Dorree Lynn, a psychologist in Washington whose book about sex after 50 is expected to be released in April. "They do not need to be role models for the way older."

60 Is the new 40. -Which is a pure lie, "said Dr. Lynn. "What is true is the 60 is the new 60."

Although appearance matters can be painful for women who feel "somewhat insulted by the fact," said Dr. Diller. Was not feminism to do campaigns and ceiling-shattering the attention get, not a tense boiler?

The book's most exciting stories from patients who are surprised to find herself mourns its voltage peaks and veiny legs. Katherine, who did not use their real names in the book, is a 53-year-old science scholar and mother of three who saw himself in the camp "more important things to worry about." But when she nixed a beach getaway with her husband because she did not know any swimsuit, she was disturbed by how much she cared. She came late, admitting that her family may have taught her to care about appearance is superficial, but that she could be a woman of substance that have happened with a retinoid at night or visiting a spa sometimes.

This positive aesthetic is particularly stressful because the playing field is no longer equal. A baby boomer is pressed to choose between her forehead to be au naturel or smooth in his later years — a decision that her mother did not face. Ann Kearney-Cooke, 54, an expert in body image in Cincinnati, said the message they heard their mother mothers look could was insulting: "you're not going to be pumping out babies anymore – you're not so much benefit to society." But at least, the sight of comrades with an equal number of wrinkles was a comfort. They might think we are "all in the same boat," said Dr. Kearney-Cooke, a psychologist.

The authors of "Face It" suggests that there is today an odd moral sneaks in our estimates of what we find acceptable. Ridicule too obvious cosmetic surgery is now a great American pastime. A post on Gawker asks why people still get plastic surgery recently received more than 400 comments, sent many emails from high soap boxes.

Much more fascinating is the 60-something celebrities masses Lubrication for having the courage to grow old "naturally" focus (gasp!), or at least not to use everything available to them. Meryl Streep is an actress. Helen Mirren is another. We like to imagine they are inoculated in any way against self doubt.

And so, in January, it was vaguely disturbing to hear that Ms. Mirren has a laissez-faire faire attitude to cosmetic surgery rather than the endurance of just-say-no thrust her fans had assumed. On a British morning show, "she said," you go, ' I do not want to look at that face longer "and I understand it, absolutely.

But why does that make her a sellout, Dr. Diller asks. In an interview for this article, the authors say they are not against plastic surgery or less-invasive efforts to slow the March of time. Choosing an intervention of fear or downstairs is what annoyed them. Sounding completely laissez-faire with myself, "said Dr. Muir-Sukenick she prefers women reflect first, before you act.

But just as both Dr. Diller and Dr. Muir-Sukenick invites women to enjoy their future, not their past, their modeling headshots keep stalking them as ghosts of Christmases past. They appeared on the screen for the authors, March 11, the appearance of the show "today", and the two women brought them out after the interview for this article. So, why can't their 50-something faces lined with wrinkles – speak for themselves?

Betty Friedan said of a woman later this year, "If you pretend to be young, you'll miss it."

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Awake for breast cancer implants? If you want to

How do I do? She was awake. Most women who get breast implants done under general anesthesia. But Jane. Z. 's doctor was Dr. Robert l. True of Colleyville, Eg., one of more than 100 doctors across the country who support local anaesthesia and premedicinering for aesthetic operations that breast cancer industrial cooperation.

"They're talking to me all the time," said Dr. True, a physician and obstetrician by training, de 75 patients whose breast he has expanded into their accredited facility. When the new implants is in, his patients is the size of the operational, look in a mirror and have their say. "They want the little autonomy," he said.

Lots of plastic surgeons believe that it is possible to do a breast augmentation without an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist ?, partly because of the risk to the patient if something goes wrong. These doctors say they can do their best work – dissecting a pocket for an implant and protecting it – without total control.

But recently, a set of doctors, most of them have not come through plastic surgery, has been touting the option awake as a blessing to the patient's choice and as a safer alternative than general anesthesia. Breast augmentation is often done in the hospital and accredited offices, but awake breast surgery is done usually in an office that does not perhaps have been tested for safety by an accrediting organization.

-The problem is, doctors do major procedures on local with quote unquote Sedation to circumvent the need for accreditation, "says Dr. Lawrence s. Reed, Chairman of the American Association for accreditation of body cage surgery facilities.

For most of the surgery, Jane z., said 48, reviewing medical chart for a hospital, she felt "quite a lot of it." She added, "you are technically awake, but you can remember anything." In a more coherent moments, she remembers is invited, before Dr. True sewed her, if her new breasts were sufficient. She asked to go slightly larger, and got his wish for a DD Cup.

"If you talk to the 99% of women, they want contributions to what they will look like," says Dr. Jeffrey Caruth, a physician and obstetrician by training offering now awake cosmetic surgery in his Office in Plano, Tex. "people don't come to me because it is cheaper. They do not want to sleep. "

Doctors offer awake breast augmentation and awake Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) advertise on YouTube.com and propagate local anaesthesia and premedicinering on their Web sites. In recent years, the market for awake breast augmentation ramped up. No organisation keeps track of how many doctors do the awake version of this surgery (or tummy tucks).

Dr. Anil k. Gandhi, which performs both awake procedures at his offices in Cerritos, California, said he had met "for more than 100 doctors" in two days, $ 7,000 seminars for national society of cosmetic doctors. His students are doctors who usually made their group accommodation in ob/gyn or family medicine and takes a weekend course (or two) If you want to know how you make aesthetic operations with local anesthesia and Sedation.

The shortcut to practicing aesthetic surgery tends to be evangelists. The orientations of the plastic surgeons spent five to eight years of medical school training operations and then have their surgical skills tested in exams.

-Two day courses, it's just crazy, "says Dr. William p. Adams Jr., a plastic surgeon in Dallas who teaches residents at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "It took us six years to fully train plastic surgeons to breast augmentation." He said that it was irresponsible to let fuzzy-headed patients choose their implants. "They don't let people drive after a six-pack of beer," said Dr. Adams, an investigator for the Mentor and Allergan, the makers of breast implants (and consultant for Allergan). "How well people choose a size of implant after drug?"

Dr. Adams and other plastic surgeons say that mid-surgery consultation can be harmful if the patient chooses implant too large for her breast. Overaugmentation can produce ugly rippling, said Dr. Mark l. Jewell, a plastic surgeon who breast industrial cooperation with local anesthesia and intravenous Sedation in an accredited facility in Eugene, ore. "decision should be made in advance," said Dr. Jewell, an investigator for the Mentor and Allergan as a consultant for Allergan.

Several doctors said that the promotion of local anaesthesia and premedicinering for aesthetic operations was just a gimmick which played down the risks. "The promotion of these operations that so easy to just local anaesthesia is required, has the intention to make someone believe that" there is a serious matter, ' "said Dr. Douglas r. Blake, an anesthesiologist in Providence, R.I., who specializes in the office-based procedures."The promise to get by with only local anesthesia may actually be shortchanging the patient. " Say a patient feels weak, or have a panic attack in mid-surgery, "who is it that the patient?" asked he.

Practitioners of awake breast augmentation patients offer Sedation and then pump in a numbing fluid. This fluid — which has been used this year in a sort of liposuction is called the "tumescent" — contains Lidocaine, an anesthetic and Epinephrine, that control the hemorrhage.

Cosmetic surgeons without group accommodation in plastic surgery said that with local anaesthesia for breast augmentation will promote a quicker recovery, but plastic surgeons tend to question. "No surgeon performing awake augmentation has ever shown in an independent supervised study his patients can be out to dinner at night and return to full normal activities within 24 hours," said Dr. John B Tebbetts, plastic surgeon in Dallas.

Jane z., who had her first breast augmentation with Dr. Tebbetts, said his recovery after 2004 effort and latest with Dr. True took about the same time. After general anesthesia, she said, she felt woozy but not nauseated.

Ambition — when the stomach contents back into the mouth and is breathing — is a rare complication of going. But under Sedation, Dr. Blake said, the protective reflexes of the airway can be reduced, making the pursuit of an opportunity.

Dr. Keith j. Ruskin, an anesthesiology professor at Yale University School of Medicine, said doctors are using tumescent anesthesia must avoid an overdose, which can lead to seizures and abnormal heartbeats. Dr. Caruth gives his breast cancer augmentation patients 5-10 mg Valium and Ativan (anti-anxiety drug) for the smallest Sedation. If a patient wants to moderate Sedation, she must pay $ 600 for an anesthesiologist. But not all doctors sedating patients for breast cancer industrial cooperation believes less is more. Dr. Caruth said-I see these guys as they "wake up" and the sludge heck these people with drugs.

Dr. Gandhi, who trained as a Surgeon General but not board certified, said his patients have minimal Sedation. He wants them alert. -It is more secure, "he said. "Patients can scream and you know, I can't do that I cannot put my needle which, says Dr. Gandhi, whose offices are not accredited. Later, he made it clear via email: "for the strengthening of technology that I have implemented and teach for tumescent anesthesia infusion results in excellent numbness, that patients do not feel anything when I operated breast."

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"Vampire Face Lifts": Selphyl injections of your blood platelets

In fact, it is not surgery, a procedure in the office which carries blood from the arm, then spun in a Centrifuge to separate out platelets. They are then injected in your face, hoping to stimulate new collagen production. Selphyl, that regime is called, arrived the flourishing ansiktsbehandling-regeneration market in 2009 and is now used by about 300 doctors across the country in the name of beauty, says Sanjay Batra, Managing Director of aesthetic factors which produce Selphyl system.

This year has "Vampire facelift" been promoted on "The Rachael Ray Show" and "doctor." It has also been broadcast in more than a dozen local news programs, some of which are presented unproved claim that results will last two years.

Dr. Drew Ordon, one of the hosts of "The doctor" and targeting plastic surgeon, gushed on air,-vampires have moved into plastic surgery, too, and I am one of them, the patient in his segment had also recently her own fat in her face to the Oh, so it was not clear that platelets had anything to do with her fresher look. (Not to be stopped the audience's applause.)

Eerie sounds, some procedure that patients prefer the idea of using their own blood rather than a Neurotoxin or synthetic filler to rejuvenate their faces. "We all want to see better," said Joan Sarlo, 56, who underwent a Selphyl "vamp-lifting", performed by Dr. Lisa a. Zdinak, Manhattan-based doctor whose specialty is ophthalmic plastic surgery. But the "less unnatural better," Ms. Sarlo said. "What can be better than your own blood?"

Some doctors say that Fillers from the body is less likely to cause irregularities and knocks the agenda areas than synthetic as Sculptra aesthetic. But now, it is difficult to talk about "Platelet-Rich fibrin matrix" or P.R.F.M. (the medical term for the Golden-hued platelets Selphyl extract), is an effective filler for hollowed-out cheeks and wrinkles.

Dr. Anthony p. Sclafani, Director of facial plastic surgery at New York eye and Ear Infirmary, said he has seen the effects of P.R.F.M. on revivifying cosmetic patients last for more than a year — sometimes 18-24 months. (Dr. Sclafani is a paid consultant for aesthetic elements, and most of his research on Selphyl has been funded by the company.)

But no national clinical trial has been done to prove such claims. "There is simply no objective data out there to justify the claim of two years," Dr. Jeffrey m. Kenkel, specialising in plastic surgeon and spokesman for the physicians Coalition for injectable safety, wrote in an e-mail message.

Dr. Phil Haeck, Chairman of the American Society of plastic surgeons, plagued by a lack of research proving the effect of Selphyl, which costs $ 900 to $ 1,500 for a procedure which takes less than half an hour. "There are no scientific studies, the only personal certificates," he said, adding that he thinks that "celebrate" the concept is so obsolete that bloodletting to cure the disease. "This is another gimmick that people use to make themselves stand out on the Internet in a true everyone part of medicine".

In addition, doctors and consumers are not clear to which Selphyl account in F.D.A. Focus family medicine physician who works by refining MediSpa in Johnson City, Tenn., tells consumers that Selphyl is in a YouTube video with Dr. John Argerson, a "recently approved F.D.A. fillers" for the nose to lip creases. And in an article in the December 2009 in dermatology times, a trade publication, Dr. Ranella Hirsch, dermatologist, said Selphyl is "a new F.D.A. approved dermal absorption fillers." This week, Dr. Hirsch, who do not use Selphyl in their practice, said she could not explain why she misspoke, adding to an e-mail message to "the lack of clarity between F.D.A. approval versus F.D.A. finish in the market is an important point."

Actually. F.D.A has not been approved. or cleared P.R.F.M. derived in a Selphyl Centrifuge marketed for Facial rejuvenation. 2002 Cleared the Agency a blood-insamlingssystem called Fibrinet, whose Platelet-rich by-products orthopedic physician then be used to accelerate tissue repair. in 2009, This same machine was born again as Selphyl, and since then, the company promoted it as a way to "reverse the natural aging process." This week, said Shelly Burgess, a spokesman to F.D.A. Selphyl's maker must file an amendment in order to obtain approval to market its system for the collection of blood in a new way, and any such change can be found on this letter.

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A little too ready for her close-up?

In small but significant number of beginning filmmakers and casting executives reconsider Hollywood's attitude to breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all forms of plastic surgery.

TV executives at Fox Broadcasting, says for example they have begun to recruit more natural looking players from Australia and the United Kingdom since more than well endowed, freakishly young looking crowd shows up for applicants in Los Angeles is suffering from too much sameness.

"I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper" said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox scripted shows.

Independent casting directors as Mindy Marin, who worked with Jason Reitman film "Up in the Air", is a talent agent to counteract invites clients to have surgery, especially older celebrities as she argues, lose their jobs because their skin is too tense or swollen with. Said Ms. Marin: "what I want to see is real."

Also extra sheep once-over. Sande Alessi, who helped throw the films "Caribbean pirates", said she is offering to photograph actresses in their bathing suits, tell me if they can keep the photo for their audition books.

Professional courtesy? Not necessarily. Moviemakers prefer actresses with natural boobs for the costume dramas and period films. So much so that when the Walt Disney Company announced recently for extras for the new "Pirates" movie, casting call indicated that only women with real boobs need apply. By taking a photograph, Ms. Alessi said, "we need not ask, we."

Step towards a ' less is more "is operated by a series of conflicting social and technological developments, said more than a dozen film and television technicians.

Cosmetic improvements still popular, with 10 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures are performed in the United States during 2009, according to the American society for aesthetic plastic surgery. At the same time, the proliferation of HD television — as well as a curious generally trained eye – has made it easier to find a celebrity poorly sewn hairline or botched eyelid lift.

Men, is, of course, not immune to the lure of a youthful Surgeon a scalpel. But there are women, to no surprise, as the closest is to be examined.

Botox is the enemy in a post-"Avatar", 3-D infatuated Hollywood, where in possibility to crumple a mouth to a frown is as important as remembering his lines. More frightening is how young plastic surgery supporters become. In January was the actress Heidi Montag on the cover of people magazine, touting the 10 cosmetic procedures, she had a day. She is 23.

"Era" I see great since I did this to myself "has gone through," said Shawn Levy, Director and producer of "Date Night" and "night at the Museum" films. "It is seen as ridiculous. Ten years ago had actresses feeling that they had to have plastic surgery to get the part. Now, I think it works against them. Go to a casting session low. looks fake their chances "

Few in Hollywood is prepared to admit that the Chin reduction or mini eyebrow lift. (Remember when Jennifer Grey admitted to nose job, a move that some say are damaging his career?) Celebrities are more open to discuss a previous drug problems or sex addiction, because there is less concern about a confession which will damage their careers. But with so many types of cosmetic rejiggering is often painfully obvious and result difficult to fix.

Ms. Shulman, Fox met an agent recently to discuss hiring an actress who apparently had work. "What she did to his face?" Ms. Shulman said she asked the agent. "He said," nothing ". I lightly. I will just not to argue. I said, ' she is not for me then. " ”

Head shots, is no longer reliable. Ms. Marin said she sometimes checks AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, an advertising site that portrays the surgically enhanced, confirming suspicions of who edited what. When Ms. Alessi throwing "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in 2007, she received hundreds of head shots. Some of the actresses who arrived for the audition, however, saw nothing like their photographs.

"They would have these huge puffy lips and frozen units," said she. "you say to yourself," Oh, I can't use you. ", I received not if they do a little bit of something, but it may not be obvious."

An actor can also lose a role of a Director, if the suspect surgery was performed or not. John Papsidera, a casting director for "Batman" films, said he and a Director (he declined to say which one) recently discussed whether to hire an actor in his early 20s to play a teenager, falling in love. The actress was talented and naturally beautiful. But how did the Director was his suspicions that such young, she already had breast implants.

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Plastic surgery among ethnic groups mirrors the beauty ideals

In Flushing, Queens, surgeons have their attention to training a few metres higher, fitted their nose as their Chinese patients want to turn down. Russian women in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with her breasts enlarged, while the Koreans in Chinatown have jaw lines trimmed.

As demand for surgical enhancement explodes in the world, have New York developed a variety of niche markets that allow the city's many immigrants to have tucks and tweaks that are carefully tailored their cultural preferences and ideals of beauty. Just as they can find Lebanese grape leaves or bowls of Vietnamese pho tastes home, finds immigrants surgeons the opportunity to recover the fission of Thal?a, Mexican singer and Lee Hyori, Korean pop star bright eyes.

They are also a growing number of physicians offering unsurpassed plans to help them deliver business. If the price is still too high, are illegal and surgery of unlicensed practitioners in many neighbourhoods.

Since these specialized clinicians transforming Asian eye brows and Latina silhouettes, they provide a filtered-level perspective on the ambitions and uncertainties for immigrants in 21st century New York — a mosaic portrait buffed with Botox.

"When a patient comes in from a particular ethnic background, and of a certain age, we know what to look for," says Dr. Phillip Alizadeh, head of Long Iceland plastic surgical group, which has three clinics in the city. "We're kind of amateur sociologists."

Dr. Alizadeh, himself an immigrant from Iran, admits that the results may seem less like science than like gender stereotypes. Still, he and other doctors who are working on ethnic groups say they can scan their appointment books and detect unmistakable trends: many Egyptians may face lifts. Many Italians transform their knees. Dr. Alizadeh said his fellow Iranians for nose jobs.

And there is no questioning the surge in demand in the immigrant neighborhoods, where Mandarin and Arabic are spoken in the operating room and patients range in age from 18 to 80 ", as a doctor there.

Approximately 750,000 Asians in the United States underwent cosmetic procedures, from the surgery less invasive work as Botox injections, 2009 — approximately 5 percent of the Asian population, and more than twice the number in 2000, according to estimates by the American Society of plastic surgeons. Among Latinos were 1.4 million, or almost 3 percent of the population and a threefold increase from nine years earlier. 2009 Was about 4 percent of white cosmetic work.

In New York, new clinics have opened in immigrant enclaves and practice has expanded to keep pace with demand.

Extreme makeover is in many ways a tradition among the city's immigrants. A century ago, at the beginning of cosmetic surgery, European Jews underwent nose jobs and Irish immigrants had his ears pinned back in an attempt to see "more American," said Victoria Pitts-Taylor, professor of sociology at Queens College who has written about popular attitudes to plastic surgery.

"The bulk of these operations focused on assimilation issues," said Ms. Pitts-Taylor.

Today show feature as varied and complex as procedures. Instead of trying to fit in their new country, transforming many immigrants to their home culture trends and tastes.

"My patients are proud of the rich Hispanic," says Dr. Jeffrey p. Yager, who speaks Spanish, and the size of his Office has tripled since opening the 1997 in Washington Heights, a heavily Dominican neighborhood of Manhattan. "I do not have the patients who want to hide their ethnicity".

While clinics that advertise in the local Russian, Spanish, and Chinese media have much in common with each other and with those serving nonimmigrants – everyone wants to have a flat stomach and a smooth forehead – their core business is as diverse as the languages spoken by their patients.

Dr. Holly j. Berns, an anesthesiologist, feels as if she is a seesaw when she travels from Dr. Yager office to suburban train clinicians. On Long Iceland, she said, "they are doing everything they can to get the fat out of their buttocks." In Washington Heights, "it is the opposite – they just want the ends back scaled rounded."

Italia Vigniero, 27, Dominican patient of Dr. Yager 's, had breast implants in 2008 and are planning a buttocks area lift to achieve, as she called it "silhouette of a woman."

"We define ourselves with Madrid our bodies," said she. "we have always curves."

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Venezuela's newest enemy: Breast lifts

The blame for the increase in such operations, Mr. Ch?vez said on State television over the weekend, rested with the doctors who "convinces some women that if they do not have large bosoms, they should feel bad." He said there was a "monstrous thing" that poor women seeking breast lifts when they had trouble making ends meet.

"What is this, friend?" Mr. Ch?vez declared its viewers.

Mr. Ch?vez's comments come at a time when Venezuela has emerged as one of the world's leading markets for breast augmentation. Between 30 000 and 40 000 women here to undergo the procedure each year according to the calculations of the Venezuelan society of plastic surgeons.

Signs in Caracas advertise bank loans to surgery. Gossip Blogs speculate on improvements to the participants of the Miss Venezuela pageant. Last year, tried a candidate to the national Assembly, Gustavo Rojas, to finance his campaign by raffling of breast cancer elevator (he lost anyway).

"I've never seen more silicone elsewhere," said Mireia Sallar?s, a filmmaker from Spain that focuses on feminist issues and are working on a project about Venezuela, the newspaper Tal Cual.

Mr. Ch?vez regretted the amount of money spent on cosmetic breast surgery, there are also a darker side with procedures with reports of surgical mistakes resulting in death in some patients. A 20-year-old woman, Paola Rios, died in Caracas this month due to complications from breast augmentation surgery.

Mr. Ch?vez's position on a tripod in Venezuelan popular culture encouraged rapid reactions from some quarters, particularly the medical profession. "I think not enough, there should be some kind of discrimination of these aesthetic procedures," said Dr. Ram?n Zapata Sirvent, leading plastic surgeon here.

In an acerbic leader on the subject on Monday with the opposition newspaper El Nacional Mr. Ch?vez Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, who regard Mr. Ch?vez as a friend. "Now, this obsolete militarist, repressive attitude of the rough, on women's freedom to do what they want with their bodies," said El Nacional.

President, however, made it clear that breast augmentation did not square well with his revolutionary priorities. He said that among thousands of letters he receives from supporters, arrived asking for his help for breast cancer Elevator, which would cost as much as $ 7,000. "Of course I had to reject it," he said.

State media agreement with the President on the subject. The State newspaper the Correo del Orinoco claimed this month that plastic surgery was "as common as dentist appointments, and it is not unusual for wealthy parents proudly buy his 15-year-old daughters breast implants for" come of age "birthday."

Maria Eugenia Diaz contributed reporting.

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Breast surgery requires reconstruction Talk, the law says

After her mastectomy in April Alantheia Pena cried for the loss of her breast. Her partner told her not to worry about flat spot on its chest, but she could tell it bothered him when he looked away as she took off her shirt.

It was a friendly Secretary where she went to get his prosthesis, an artificial breasts fill her clothes, who noticed her cry and told her that she could have her breast cancer was reconstructed with health insurance that covers costs. Ms. Pena said his cancer surgeon had told her.

A law on State was signed Sunday by Gov David a. Paterson now require New York hospitals and doctors to discuss options for breast cancer reconstruction with their patients before cancer surgery, providing them with information on insurance and to refer them to another hospital, where it is needed for reconstructive surgery.

The law came largely through the efforts of Dr. Evan Garfein, plastic surgeon at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx who gave Ms. Pena, who turns 48 next week, a new breast, which made her so happy she wore a bikini last month for the first time in his life.

"It gave me back my life," said Ms. Pena, running H.I.V. Ministry of Friendship Baptist Church in Brooklyn and lives in the Bronx, on Wednesday. "It's like my breasts. It is beautiful. It is perfect. It is a perfect breasts. "

Dr. Garfein, who specializes in reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, head and neck cancer, said he had pushed for the law after a friend of his, Dr. Caprice Christian Greenberg, wrote a document showing that the poor, minority women were much less likely to get breast cancer reconstruction after cancer than better-off women.

Congress guaranteed universal coverage for breast cancer reconstruction after cancer surgery in 1998. But Dr. Garfein said that only 30-40% of women who have had mastectomies now breast cancer reconstruction.

Dr. Garfein said the number would be closer to 75% if more women were informed of their options. Ms. Pena, covered by Medicaid, had his surgery at North General Hospital in Harlem, which is disused, but she said his doctors had never discussed breast reconstruction with her.

One reason for the low proportion of reconstruction, Dr. Garfein said, be shortage of plastic surgeons outside of large academic medical centres, and another can be financial. Medicaid pays about $ 11,000 to $ 15,000 to the hospital and $ 540 to the surgeon, according to Montefiore.

Repayment can vary from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars with private insurance, and some patients may have entire costs covered, while others may have to pay 30 percent, according to Dr. Scott Breidbart, Medical Director of Empire BlueCross BlueShield.

Ms. Pena is still recovering from cancer, but with her new breasts, she said, "at the end of it, you see some kind of rainbow".

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Chinese resort to plastic surgery in an increasing number

But your jaw line? Also square for his taste. Which is why the 22-year-old television reporter recently traveled from a coastal province to a private hospital in the Centre of Beijing were reformed - for about $6,000. Her boyfriend, a 29-year-old businessman, wore sunglasses designers, picked up the Bill.

"No I'm nervous," said the Devil (the English name of the first she chose for herself and the only one that would reveal) as she awaits surgery at Evercare Aikang hospital in the Centre of Beijing. "In the will be more sophisticated and exquisite".

The impressive pace of transformation for Chinese mobile professionals - bicycles for cars, town to town, prostrate holidays for skiing holidays, now extends to the sides. In less than a decade, cosmetic and plastic surgery has become the fourth most popular way to spend discretionary income in China, according to Ma Xiaowei, Deputy Minister of health of China only on homes, cars and travel of higher rank, said.

Figures are not official there, but the international society of surgery of plastic aesthetic appreciation in 2009 China third, behind United States and Brazil, with more than two million transactions per year. And the number of transactions doubles every year, Mr Ma said at a conference organized by the Ministry of health in November.

He said that "we must recognize that the plastic and aesthetic surgery has become a common service, aimed at the masses".

Face-lifts and removal of wrinkles treatments are in vogue, as well as in the West. But at Evercare, which runs a chain of hospitals in cosmetic surgery in China, are two fifths parts of patients in its 20 years, said Li Bin, general manager and one of the founders.

At the national level, the most requested surgeries have nothing to do with age: the No. 1 operation is designed to make eyes appear larger by the addition of a fold in the eyelid, forming what is called a double eyelid, said Zhao Zhenmin, Secretary general of the China Association of plastics State and aesthetic.

The second most popular raise the bridge of the nose to make it more prominent, the opposite of the typical work of nose in the West. Third is the remodeling of the jaw to make it more narrow and more, said.

Youth patients include job-seekers hoping to improve their prospects in the labour force, adolescents who received cosmetic surgery as a graduation present and even middle school students, the majority of whom want eye jobs, say surgeons.

Regulatory system in China, General, has failed. At the Beijing Conference in November, Mr. Ma, the vice Minister of health, said that the situation "can even be called negligence."

11 Clinics and hospitals offering cosmetic or plastic surgery that were inspected last year, it said, less than half met the national standards. Employees did not have professional credentials, he said. equipment and materials were subpar. Beauty salons are flagrant violators, illegally administered Botox injections and perform the surgery of eyelids.

Mr. Ma compared to the industry to a medical "disaster zone", with frequent accidents. It was underscored his point when a former contestant from 24 years of age in the Chinese reality show "Super girl" died after his windpipe filled with blood during an operation to remodel his jaw in Hubei province.

Health officials demanded an investigation. But Mr. Zhao, who is also the vice director of plastic of managed by the Beijing Government and the Hospital of cosmetic surgery, said that it was impossible to gather evidence because the body was cremated, common practice in China when private hospitals settle claims of negligence.

"Personally, I think that this is fairly negligible," said. "We have to get to the bottom of these cases in order to protect people in the future."

The shortcomings of China's medical system are hardly limited to aesthetic and plastic surgery. But now, the industry generates about $ 2.3 million in revenue, and the Government has begun to take note. Officials say new regulations probably will be published this year.

An implicit objective is stemming the flow of Chinese patients to hospitals better-established in Korea of the South. Mr Ma believed that China make up 30 percent of patients of cosmetic surgery in Seoul.

By now, many beauty salons, as a branch of Beijing the center of a major chain, are taking advantage of the lack of supervision. One recent afternoon, a woman of 62 years of age in a white layer that describes itself as an internist said that he could convene a doctor who could give a visitor double eyelids in 20 minutes approximately $180, a fraction of the standard rate of hospital.

"Will immediately be different," he said.

Da Shi, Li shirt, Zhang Jing, and Jonathan Kaiman contributed research.

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Opening arguments

Why use "contracts of human capital" to finance higher education is not scary as it sounds.? Why is Afghanistan leave their cultural sites fall to pieces?

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Dominique Browning for raising Natural argument

Now, before someone starts turning defensive, allow me defensive. This is not an essay on why I am categorically against cosmetic surgeries. I'm as good as the next gal if a certain person feels so bad about her neck which she did not leave the House, or if another is so pesada-p?rpado that ever blinks loses half of the image. Plastic surgeons have done wonderful things.

About the proliferation of small cosmetic procedures? The dentist offers to make is in the vicinity of the mouth of anyway? The injections of fillers to plump lips, wrinkles smooth, fill in the lines of laughter? At this point, is a wonder that the salesclerk at Barneys is not offering to shoot your face while you're trying on hats.

Once again, I am not against it. Well, maybe Botox. I am that ask for a complaint when my friends were tottering on the verge of succumbing to the needle. I would like to say, who wants to inject a venom so lethal that it paralyzes nerves, sending small muscles will atrophy?

I am not categorically against a hand, if it has finesse. My current rule, when faced with an improved face, is if I wonder vaguely that if there's work, the alteration was well done. But these days, I wonder why, why you do it?

We have gone too far. I'm getting very, very scared.

We have reached a stage where plastic surgery is so easily available in certain circles expected of men and women to avail themselves of these age-deniers. (You can call them power-ups of youth when you are no longer young.) If you choose not to participate in the benefits of the needle and knife, they are judged to make a statement. It is taking a position against the current standards of beauty.

We have activated the foreign body dysmorphia, collective, late onset. What is worse is that our concerns about the aging filter in our children's generation, so the mantra about cosmetic procedures including among some 30 years is "intervention early and often".

I began to worry about all this a year ago, when I was on a book tour. I love to read out loud and see the faces of people who are listening to. Deeply within weeks, he was in touch with my inner ham. Sometimes, I found exhausted a response. It would be at the hearing, hearing laughter and whispers, but seeing only aft masks. Even then, these same faces could be telling me how much had loved my presentation. It took a while to give account of which people had problems to express emotion in their functions.

This is also when I started to develop the problem of "who are you?".

Many people have had procedures that have been missed. They look strange and tragic. Is this inevitable? You do one thing, the effects are beginning to fade, you make another and so on. You will get swollen. You will get hard. Or move. And I wonder. Has he said no one "stop"? Has no one, especially the one with the needle, gently advised against further work? It used to be an unusual vision for inks of cosmetic surgery addicts, but it is surprisingly common.

We are now in the position of watching politicians and presenters speak of disturbing issues - as, let's say our system of education, or the degradation State environmental, but that may not meet the signs of concern, much less dismay.

One afternoon, I get a segment on the television on nuclear disarmament. A spokesman for celebrity makes a case for the establishment of weapons, and part of my brain in motion click: she is intelligent and passionate. But another part of me is distracted, because the image does not match the message. The front no wrinkles with concern; No crinkling her cheeks with smiles; his eyes not narrowing suspicion in trick questions. In fact, no matter what he says, his face is frozen in place. It's fascinating grotesquely - and undermining. Before meeting her, the interview is long. The medium was the message.

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Recognizing its value as you age

It would be easy to dismiss concerns about a concern that as weak aesthetics. But two models-turned-psychotherapist argue in "face it," his new guide for women, to fight with the change of appearance may be less disappointing not to deal with a financial loss, a decrease in the work or a divorce.

After decades of advising patients, Dr. Vivian Diller and Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick say that fears about aging can stimulate an existential crisis of type. Such fear is not about vanity of itself, but it has more than with a loss of potential and questioning the place in the world. It can cause depression, sleep disorders or alcohol abuse, say.

However, therapy is usually not in the short list of solutions for the annoying for a cosmetic "problem". It is a treatment of laser for lunch or a cream $180.

Dr. Diller, 56 and Dr. Muir-Sukenick, 57, are here to say to American women: no matter how stellar their achievements, that is not superficial to admit that ageing is changing. Readers are encouraged to find out what drives have daydreams about a facelift refined rather than programming.

At a time when cosmetic surgery is becoming increasingly more regarded as a casual effort and anti-aging injections inevitable, "Realistic" gives practical steps women to analyze how they feel about this paradox of beauty. "Do should women just age naturally, since their appearance does not define them, or should combat the signs of aging, beauty and youth are its currency and power?" ask the authors in his book.

The answer is not simple, if the value of the 20 years of patient information that the book is based on an indication. (Also surveyed other women 30 to 65, including models because sometimes consulted for modeling agencies.)

The mandate does not look your age has never been stronger. "We are talking about a generation of pioneers," said Dorree Lynn, a psychologist in Washington, whose book about sex after 50 is expected to be released in April. "They have no models for how they are getting older."

Sixty is the new 40. "That's an absolute lie," said Dr. Lynn. "What is true is 60-year-old is the new 60."

Admitting that issues of appearance can be painful for women who feel "slightly insulted by the fact", said Dr. Diller. Do not supposed feminism do promotions and roof-breaking the sensors of attention, not a tense front?

Most interesting stories from the book come from patients who are surprised at the are in mourning for his sags and veiny legs. Katherine, who did not use his real name in the book, is a researcher of the science of 53 years and mother of three, that it considers itself in the camp "more important things to worry about". But when she cancelled a Fortaleza beach with her husband because she does not feel comfortable in any swimsuit, she was concerned by how much he cared. Belatedly, came to recognize that his family may have taught him that worry about the appearance is superficial, but that she could be a woman of substance who happened to use a retinoid at night or visiting a spa on occasions.

This age can be the aesthetic is particularly stressful because the playing field is no longer equal. A baby boomer is pressed to choose if your brow will be au naturel or soft during his last years: a decision by his mother did not face. Ann Kearney-Cooke, 54, an expert on body image in Cincinnati, said the message of the grandmothers heard as his appearance was insulting: "you're not going to pump babies - is no longer so much use to society." But at least the view of pairs with so many wrinkles was a consolation. You might think that "we are all in" the same boat, said Dr. Kearney-Cooke, a psychologist.

The authors of "face it" point out that today that crawls an odd morality in our calculations of what we consider acceptable. Ridiculing cosmetic surgery too obvious now is a great American pastime. A post of gawk wondering why people keep plastic surgery recently won more than 400 comments, many envoys of high soapboxes by e-mail.

They are much more fascinating 60 - something celebrities masses anoint for having the courage to "naturally" ageing in the center of attention (gasp!), or at least not avail themselves of all the jobs available for them. Meryl Streep is an actress of such. Helen Mirren is another. We like to imagine that somehow they are vaccinated against the doubts.

And so, in January, it was vaguely disturbing to hear that Ms. Mirren has an attitude of laissez faire of cosmetic surgery rather than the firm position of only-di-no who had taken his fans. In a British newspaper, said, "you're going, 'I don't want to look at that face already', and I understand that, absolutely".

But why that makes it a sellout, Dr. Diller ask.? In an interview for this article, the authors said were not against plastic surgery less invasive efforts to slow March of time. The choice of intervention of fear or blindly is what them annoying. It sounds pretty laissez-faire herself, Dr. Muir-Sukenick said that he preferred that women are reflected in the first place, before taking action.

However, just as both Dr. Diller and Dr. Muir-Sukenick urge women to savour their futures, not its past, its modeling shots kept stalking as them ghost of Christmas past. They appear on screen during the appearance of March 11 of the authors in the programme "Today", and the two women are brought after the interview for this article. So, what their 50 - something faces - lined with wrinkles, they speak for themselves?

As Betty Friedan said once a woman years later, "if going to pretend it is youth, it is going to lose."

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Implants awake breast? If you want to

How? He was awake. The majority of women receiving implants breast made under general anesthesia. But Jane. Z. physician was Dr. Robert l. True of Colleyville, Tex, one of the more than 100 doctors nationwide calling for local anesthesia and sedation for aesthetic surgeries like breast augmentation.

"They are talking to me all the time," Dr. True, an obstetrician and gynaecologist by training, said the 75 patients whose breasts has expanded in its accredited facility. After a new implant, patients are mounted in the operating, look in a mirror and your opinion table. "Like that bit of autonomy," he said.

Many plastic surgeons that it is impossible to do a breast augmentation without an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthesiologist on hand, partly because of risks to the patient if something goes wrong. These physicians say that they cannot do their best work - a pocket for an implant of dissection and then securing it - without full control.

But lately, a group of doctors, most of which have not come through plastic surgery, has reappeared awake option as a blessing for the choice of the patient and as a safer option to general anaesthesia. Increase in chest is often performed in hospitals and accredited offices, but generally takes place in an Office that could have not been approved for safety by an awake breast accreditation organization.

"Problem is, doctors are doing large local with sedation quote-unquote procedures to avoid the need for accreditation," said Dr. Lawrence S. Reed, the President of the American Association for accreditation of ambulatory surgery services.

For the majority of the surgery, Jane z., 48, which revises the graphics of doctors at a hospital, said that he felt "very much of it." He added, "technically awake, but he does not remember anything." In a more consistent moment, she recalled asking, before Dr. True he sewed, if her new breasts were adequate. She asked to go a bit bigger and obtained his desire for a DD Cup.

"If you talk with 99 per cent of women, want one entry in what will be," said Dr. Jeffrey Caruth, an obstetrician and gynecologist from training now offered awake cosmetic surgery in his Office in Plano, Texas "people do not come to me because it's cheaper." "They don't want to put to sleep".

Doctors increased awake breast and awake Abdominoplasty (tuck a stomach) posted on YouTube.com and that the case of local anesthesia and sedation in their Web sites. In recent years, marketing of breast augmentation awake has moved up. No organization keeps track of how many doctors do the awake version of this surgery (or stomach tummy tucks).

Dr. Anil k. Gandhi, who performs both awake procedures in her Office in Cerritos, California, said that he had taught to "more than 100 doctors" at seminars of $7,000 for two days for the National Association of medical cosmetics. Its students are doctors who normally made their homes in obstetrics and Gynecology or family medicine and take a weekend course (or two) to learn how to make plastic surgery with local anesthesia and sedation.

This direct access to practise cosmetic surgery tends to the indignation of the traditionalists. After all, certified plastic surgeons to spend five to eight years after the school of Medicine of learning of operations, and then, they have investigated their surgical skills in examinations.

"Two-day courses, is just crazy," said Dr. William p. Adams Jr., a plastic surgeon in Dallas that teaches residents at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "We took six years to train fully plastic surgeons for breast augmentation." He said that it was irresponsible to diffuse patients tips to choose their implants. "Do not let people lead then consist of beer," said Dr. Adams, who is a researcher of Mentor and Allergan, manufacturers of breast implants (and a consultant for Allergan). "Do as people will choose a size of implants after drug?"

Dr. Adams and other plastic surgeons say that mid-surgery consultations can be harmful if the patient chooses implants too big for his chest. Overaugmentation can produce unsightly rippling, said Dr. Mark l. Jewell, a plastic surgeon that breast augmentations with local anesthesia and intravenous sedation in an accredited facility in Eugene, Oregon "decisions must be made ahead of time," said Dr. Jewell, a researcher of Mentor and Allergan, as well as a consultant to Allergan.

Several doctors said that the promotion of local anesthesia and sedation for plastic surgery was only a trick that minimized the risks. "The promotion of these surgeries as so easy that local anaesthesia is required, aims to make that someone thinks," it is not serious,' "said Dr. Douglas r. Blake, an anesthesiologist in Providence, R.I., who specializes in the Office-based procedures"."The promise of obtaining local anesthesia only may actually be shortchanging patient." A patient feels weak, or have a mid-surgery of panic attack, "which is there to attend to the patient?" asked.

Awake breast augmentation practitioners offer the patient sedation and after the bomb in an anesthetic fluid. This liquid, which has been used for years in a kind of "tumescent" called liposuction, including lidocaine, an anaesthetic and epinephrine, which control the bleeding.

Without homes in plastic surgery cosmetic surgeons say that with local anaesthesia for breast augmentation, it promotes a faster recovery, but plastic surgeons tend to dispute that. "Any surgeon who performs awake enlargement never demonstrated in a supervised independent study that their patients may be going out to dinner that night and return to normal activities complete in 24 hours," said Dr. John b Tebbetts, a plastic surgeon in Dallas.

Jane z., who had her first breast augmentation with Dr. Tebbetts, said his recovery after the operation in 2004 and a recent with Dr. True took approximately the same time. After general anesthesia, he said, he was dazed but not nausea.

Aspiration: stomach when content returned to the mouth and inhaled - is a rare complication of cross. But under sedation, said Dr. Blake, protective airway reflexes can be reduced, making aspirations a possibility.

Dr. Keith j. Ruskin, a Professor of Anaesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine, said that doctors anesthesia tumescent should avoid an overdose, which can lead to seizures and abnormal heartbeat. Dr. Caruth gives your patients chest rise 5-10 milligrams of Valium and some Ativan (antianxiety drugs) for the minimal sedation. If a patient wants to moderate sedation, she must pay $600 for an anesthesiologist. But not all sedatives doctor breast augmentation patients believed that less is more. Dr. Caruth said, "I see these guys that say 'wake up' and slam Devils of these people with drugs."

Dr. Gandhi, who trained as a general surgeon, but is not certified, said that their patients get minimal sedation. You want to alert. "It is more secure," he said. "Patients can scream and you know, that I can not be doing that, I can not put my needle," said Dr. Gandhi, whose Office is not accredited. Later, clarified by email: "by increase breast technique that have been implemented and teach for results of infusion of tumescent anaesthesia in excellent numbness, patients do not feel anything while I'm running."

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