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Confirming what many Plastic Surgeons have noticed, a study just published suggests that patients who maintain their treatments with BOTOX for several years need fewer treatments to maintain their results. On average, someone receiving treatment of their forehead or glabella (area between the eyebrow) requires retreatment every 3-4 months. The new study from the OHSU School of [...]

Sometimes things that are so obviously intuitive still have to be validated. After a number of years of controversy, an increasing utilized surgery to prevent breast cancer is now being shown to be quite effective in both risk reduction and cancer-related mortality. The study “A Population-Based Study of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy and Survival Outcomes of [...]

A recent Canadian study long term follow-up (see here) confirms prior observations that women with breast implants who go on to develop breast cancer have similar outcomes as women without implants who develop cancer. This is more reassurance to our patients about this theoretical concern with implants (ie. that potential difficulty with mammograms would lead [...]

One of my favorite shopping websites is Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.net) which is a user driven collection of random shopping deals around the internet. You can find some fantastic bargains on all kinds of things, and the site is updated throughout the day by users reporting sales and promotional items. In honor of this, I’d like to [...]

The bane of existence for plastic surgeons who treat breast cancer is the deliverence of external beam radiation (XRT) after surgery. It creates a hostile environment in the tissue exacerbating stiffening of the skin and scar formation. Above all else, it is the most disruptive factor for getting good results from breast reconstruction surgery. The [...]

I’ve been on a little hiatus but hope to get back to semi regular output here on PS 101. Since I last wrote, the Senate voted their version of the health care reform bill to consensus conference with the house. Even for Washington, the “sausage making” of this bill was pretty ugly. The naked bribes [...]

An Isralei group is working on a novel technique for laser welding skin incisions. Dr. Abraham Katzir from Tel Aviv is promoting his prototype which advertises itself as the first tissue friendly device for such anapplication. From the description of the technology it sounds like they use some protein-like gel in the wound as “cement” [...]

Fate has a sense of humor apparently. Could you have imagined more ironic timing then the cover of last weeks Golf Digest touting the “10 tips Obama can take from Tiger”. I’m sure Mrs. Obama will be very interested in this article! Rob Dr. Rob Oliver Oliver Plastic Surgery www.oliverplasticsurgery.com Link to the original article

In one of the most brutal political comedy skits ever, Saturday Night Live has found it’s voice on President Obama. After bending over backwards to avoid criticism of the President due to their political leanings, SNL is back with it’s fangs out. Obama is now forever going to be rightfully caricatured as the milqetoast technocrat [...]

The suggestions of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding mammograms and breast self-exam have touched off a hornet’s nest (to say the least). The new guidelines recommend that women in their 40s no longer have annual mammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 have them only every other year instead of [...]