RTE  Entertainment  26 June 2007-07-02

TV presenter Louis Theroux has undergone liposuction while making a documentary about plastic surgery.                                                         Theroux spent £2,500 of his own money on the procedure after a surgeon advised him to get rid of his “love handles”          The results will be seen in his BBC2 programme ‘Louis Theroux: Under The Knife,’ to be broadcast in the autumn.                                                           The 37-year-old presenter is best known for his quirky films about celebrities including Jimmy Savile, Paul Daniels and Neil and Christine Hamilton.
Theroux said: “I started this film with an open mind about experiencing the world of plastic surgery at first hand.
“To begin with, I’d thought I might get something minor like botox injections in my forehead but some of the surgeons I met suggested I needed a nose job, and others said I’d benefit from a brow lift. I wasn’t keen as I’ve got rather used to the way my face looks.
“A leading surgeon then told me I’d be a good candidate for lipo on my stomach and love handles.”
He said: “I decided that, with lipo, the worst that can happen, apart from the usual risks involved in surgery, is you get some lumps under your skin. I felt it a risk worth taking as I really wanted to understand how this kind of surgery can make you feel afterwards, if I’d feel like a new and improved man.”

In order to help patients better understand breast augmentation, a Beverly Hills plastic surgery center has developed a clearinghouse of information on the procedure.

The medical director and Los Angeles breast augmentation surgeon has created a Breast Augmentation Information Center. This information clearinghouse compiles a great deal of information all in one place. The information is detailed and comprehensive. Silicone gel implants recently received FDA approval for usage in both reconstructive and cosmetic breast surgery, so much of the information here is especially topical.

Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, does a large number of breast augmentation procedures, also known as breast implants and breast enlargement. Dr. Lloyd Krieger, the founder and medical director of Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, notes that the procedure can be somewhat confusing to patients. “There are different types of implants, different incisions that can be used, and different anatomic locations where the implants can be placed,” notes Dr. Krieger.

At the Breast Augmentation Information Center, people can read about the types of breast implants available, the breast augmentation procedure itself, safety and warranty issues, silicone implant issues including their history and description, places where you can get more information, view before and after Beverly Hills breast augmentation breast augmentation photos, and more. Krieger notes his hope that this information proves useful as people consider breast augmentation in Beverly Hills.
Learn more about Breast Augmentation at:

Breast Augmentation Information Center

The first ever “boob-job” bra designed specifically for women who have gone under the knife to boost their assets has been launched in the UK.

The special bra is designed for breasts that are higher, rounder and stick out more than natural breasts as a result of surgery.

Le Mystère’s No9 range was designed by a plastic surgeon in America, Dr David Brothers, who was inspired after patients complained they could not find bras to fit their bustier shape after having a boob job.

Dr Brothers said that the recent trend for pointier boobs, with a narrow base and more projection, had made it hard for patients to find suitable bras.

He said: “In recent years, the trend in breast augmentation surgery has been to use higher profile breast implants with a narrower base and more projection, which means that traditional bras tend not to fit properly, as the conical shape of the cup doesn’t allow the breast to sit comfortably.

“Also, the usual oval-shaped underwire doesn’t hold the augmented breast in place or offer the right level of support – even normal straps and material aren’t ideal.”

Around 10,000 British women go under the knife each year in their quest for bigger boobs. Breast implants have been carried out since as far back as 1895, when paraffin was injected into the breasts – with disastrous results.

The boob-job bra features a mathematically designed cup with a spherical shape that matches the most widely used implants. The underwire is also a complete semi-circle, as ordinary wires are too wide to support the smaller base of an implant.

And the centre connector on the No9 range also leaves the ideal distance between the cups for women who have had a helping hand from the surgeon.

Patrick Mallucci is a consultant plastic surgeon and co-Founder of the UK’s only nationwide, specialist breast augmentation service.

He said: “Lingerie specifically catering for the unique shape of the augmented breast is great news for women
everywhere who have had, or are thinking of having breast augmentation – we will certainly be telling our patients about it.”

Michael Rabinowitz, chief executive at Le Mystère, added: “Women have gone through the surgery process have a newfound confidence in the way they look, but are often let down by the range of ordinary bras available to them. The No9 range is functional, but very fashionable and definitely ultra chic.”

The range is available at Harrods from £60, and includes a strapless bra, a t-shirt bra, a front closure t-shirt bra, a lace bra and a sheer triangle bra, all available from a C to an E cup

NEW YORK, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire

 The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) announced today that withholding oral intake of food in patients after abdominoplasty (“tummy tuck”) may not be necessary, and that feeding patients earlier could allow for quicker discharge after surgery. Findings from a study investigating the impact of early feeding after abdominoplasty on the occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting is published in the May/June 2007 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, the Society’s official peer-reviewed journal.
These findings are important because abdominoplasty is a popular cosmetic surgical procedure. According to the Aesthetic Society’s statistics abdominoplasty was the fourth most popular surgical procedure in 2006, with 172,457 procedures performed, an increase of 407% from 1997.
More:  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,130780.shtml

Study Performed in Southern California Finds Liposuction and Tummy Tuck Procedures Can Be Safely Combined
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 1, 2007 -

Dr. Grant Stevens and colleagues study over 400 Los Angeles patients after tummy tuck-liposuction surgeries and demonstrate that the popular procedures are safe in combination.
– Cosmetic surgery is becoming more mainstream with each passing year. More people are having it and more people are talking about it. The topic has become wildly popular with the media, with entire television programs focused on plastic surgery “makeovers.”
One frequent point of debate is the safety of combined plastic surgery procedures, such as tummy tucks with liposuction. In the Los Angeles area and around the country, there’s increased demand for multiple procedures in one trip to the operating room as patients seek to minimize costs and downtime related to surgery. But questions have arisen as to the safety of these combination procedures. In fact, one state issued a ban on tummy tuck/liposuction combinations in recent years, believing the simultaneous procedures to be inherently dangerous.
Dr. Grant Stevens, Medical Director of Marina Plastic Surgery Associates, felt that more data was needed to correctly assess the risks of simultaneous cosmetic surgery procedures. He and four colleagues conducted a clinical study of 406 abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) surgeries by Dr. Stevens over a 15-year period of time. Of that group, 57 patients did not have simultaneous liposuction. The remaining patients did have liposuction combined with their abdominoplasty. The results of the study were clear: there is no additional risk for patients combining liposuction with a tummy tuck procedure.   More…..
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/6/prweb530069.htm

Article courtesy of:  the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS)   14/06/07

With summer well on its way belly button surgery (umbilicoplasties) is the hottest trend in cosmetic surgery currently. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) in excess of 8,000 belly button procedures were performed between 2002 and 2005. The exact figures however are not known since some umbilicoplasties are performed during a TUMMY TUCK and are not recorded.  The most popular belly button requests according to the ASAPS were to turn belly buttons that protruded outwards inwards, that is, turn outies into innies.
 
Umbilicoplasty surgery costs range from $2000 to $5000, and can last from between thirty minutes to an hour and a half.

There’s a study in this month’s journal ‘Plastic Surgery Nursing’ from the University of Florida reporting on several indices of patients’ self-image improvements after breast augmentation surgery.

The study included 84 women who were 21 to 57 years old, assessing their perceptions of self-esteem and sexuality before and several months after cosmetic breast augmentation. Responses were recorded with two widely accepted scientific scales to measure self-esteem and sexuality, which assess domains of sexual function, such as sexual arousal, satisfaction, experience and attitudes.

The average self-esteem score increased from 20.7 to 24.9 on a 30-point scale, and their average female sexual function score increased from 27.2 to 31.4 on a 36-point index. Of note, after the procedure, there were substantial increases in ratings of sexual desire (a 78.6 percent increase from initial scores), arousal (81 percent increase) and satisfaction (57 percent increase).

The study’s author is Dr. Cynthia Figueroa-Haas CRNP, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida’s College of Nursing