Posted September 19, 2014 in Blog
The tragic death of comedian Joan Rivers earlier this month during a procedure in an outpatient endoscopy center raises the question of the safety of procedures performed in outpatient or ambulatory surgery centers. As a surgeon with extensive experience with office-based surgery and the immediate past president of Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (AAAASF) », […]
Read MorePosted February 04, 2013 in Blog
With all the choices of cosmetic medical and surgical treatments, it is important to make the right decision when considering cosmetic procedures. Unfortunately expensive and enticing marketing of cosmetic procedures is often more effective than the particular procedure. Non surgical and minimally invasive surgical procedures are advertised as being cheaper, easier, and better than more […]
Read MorePosted December 13, 2012 in Blog
There is a disturbing video recently posted by NBC News (Backward butt implant video shows dangers of cheap plastic surgery) that shows a woman able to spin the buttock implant around and around after her surgery. We all like to save money but doing so with plastic surgery can be dangerous – even deadly. The […]
Read MorePosted December 06, 2012 in Blog
A recent article in a Florida newspaper demonstrates the national problem of “plastic surgery wannabes” – those who are partially or are basically untrained in cosmetic surgery. The ‘wannabes’ operate in unaccredited office facilities. This certainly does not describe surgeons credentialed by the American Board of Plastic Surgeons and does not describe those cosmetic surgery professionals […]
Read MorePosted June 27, 2012 in Blog
The New York Daily News: “The first woman in the U.S. to receive silicone breast implants is now 80 years old and a great-grandmother. Timmie Jean Lindsey said she is proud of her role in advancing medical science in 1962. One of her grand-daughters had breast reconstruction after a double mastectomy.” Although implants and technique […]
Read MorePosted September 20, 2011 in Blog
Last week the USA Today ran an exposé of high volume cosmetic surgery clinics which generate business through slick, enticing, but often misleading advertising (see their article here: Cosmetic surgery gets cheaper, faster, scarier). As the article develops, the pattern is evident how a high incidence of unrecognized, poorly treated and often serious complications occurred […]
Read MorePosted June 09, 2011 in Blog
The potential patient should beware if they hear an advertisement that says they can have plastic surgery while only under a local anesthesia. This is usually a tip off that the surgeon is not a plastic surgeon and is operating in a non-accredited facility. For more information, see our discussion about Accreditation is the Key […]
Read MorePosted April 21, 2011 in Blog
Board certified plastic surgeons are seeing an increase of patients coming in who are dissatisfied from previous procedures they’ve had. Other patients arrive with complications from surgeries done by unqualified practitioners. This is reflected in a news release from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) website about a FL family physician allowing unqualified […]
Read MorePosted October 15, 2010 in Blog
Board certified plastic surgeons have seen an increase in the number of dissatisfied patients as well as those who have had complications from surgery done by unqualified practitioners. More information is here from The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). This trend is related to many factors: aggressive advertising and media exposure for “new” […]
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