More than 70% of women wish to have plastic surgery, and more than 50% plan to have aesthetic surgery in the near future according to a recent survey by More! magazine. For those of you not familiar with More!, it is not only one of my wife’s favorites, but is an excellent magazine that targets […]
“EYELIDS, JAWLINE, EARLOBES? THREE WOMEN ON THE FEATURES THEY TOOK FOR GRANTED—UNTIL THEY DROPPED” is the subtitle of an informative article in VOGUE, August 2011, “The Age Issue”. Dodie Kazanjian is the first to describe her “…earlobes (that) have always been too long, and like every other part of me, they’re not improving with age.” […]
Dr. Persky was privileged to appear on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio last week with the talented, caring, and lovely Dr. Doris Day (Dr. P asked to be referred to as “Cary” as in Grant, but the shows producers balked at his request). Dr. Day is an excellent aesthetic dermatologist in Manhattan, New York and is the host […]
Merz Pharmaceuticals today announced on August 2, 2011 that the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xeomin botulinum toxin type A for the treatment of adults with cervical dystonia (stiff neck) or blepharospasm (twitching of the eyelids). According to an epidemiology study conducted in Rochester, Minnesota, the prevalence of focal dystonia, […]
A VISITOR to Picasso’s studio found the artist gazing disconsolately at a painting on the easel. “It’s a masterpiece,” said the visitor, hoping to cheer him up. “No, the nose is all wrong,” Picasso said. “It throws the whole picture out of perspective.” “Then why not alter the nose?” “Impossible,” replied Picasso. “I can’t find […]
Dr. Persky and Dr. Sunder were recently privileged to treat the editor of Instinct Magazine with Ultherapy by Ulthera. His experience with the Ulthera treatment as well as the doctors perspective of this new technological advance in non-invasive face (and neck) lifting without undergoing the knife is documented in the August 2011 edition of Instinct. Dr. […]
“Without artistic vision there can be technical successes that are aesthetic failures” Timothy Marten, MD, FACS We are frequently asked why there are so many people out there with “puffy, over filled faces” who look like freaks of nature. Or why a cosmetic surgeon does a facelift that appears too pulled and plastic. Many patients tell us that […]
A new study published in the July 2011 Lasers in Surgery and Medicine by Henry HL Chan, MD, PhD, FRCP has concluded that transcutaneous intense focused ultrasound (Ultherapy by Ulthera) appears to be safe for non-invasive facial skin tightening in Asians. The safety study confirmed that adverse events were mild and transient. Pain control during treatment should […]
At the gym a recent morning I met a patient who said, “Oh, don’t look at this on my lip, it’s not a cold sore. I thought it was a pimple and squeezed it, but nothing came out. Now look how gross it looks.” To which I, who had not noticed it because the women […]
