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There are different ways to do a brow lift operation. one procedure is known as an endobrow lift, and it’s performed using a tool called an endoscope. another popular type of brow lift is an open brow lift (also called a temporal lift). all of these operations will rectify sagging in the brow area, upper eyelids, and eyebrows.
When you schedule one of these operations (a reputable, board-certified plastic surgeon will recommend what is best for you), he or she will reorient your brow tissues, and then take away muscle and tissue that cause lines and sagging. some people get other procedures while undergoing brow lifts (such as nose jobs). usually, patients will be charged about five to seven thousand dollars for brow lifts, and recoveries from plastic surgery will be complete in several weeks. Most patients will be up and around, taking care of most daily activities, within a couple of weeks of surgery.
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The last few weeks of school almost killed us. Our schedule was just unbelievable: we woke up so early, had so many events to get to, had to make special treats and arrangements for so many wonderful, unavoidable activities, and had to stay up so late preparing for it all to start again the next day. when, oh when would vacation begin so we could have some free time instead of being jerked around like a pull toy from one activity to the next?
Well, it finally did. Sweet, sweet, summertime, with nothing to do but whatever we wanted. how we enjoyed ourselves!
For about eighteen hours. and then the kids started to go insane with — not boredom, exactly, but confusion. they were unmoored.
they couldn't believe it was only ten o'clock. Is it lunch time? why isn't it lunch time? how much longer till lunch time? Can I have a snack? So is it supper time yet? It's not that eating is actually so important to them; it's just that meals gave them an anchor, so they would be able to figure out where they were in the day. These are kids who can entertain themselves pretty well, but they were having a really hard time making the transition from over-scheduled to entirely free.
Finally I figured it out. Without planning anything extra, I just told them each day what to expect. For instance: “You can goof around all morning and watch one movie, and then I will make lunch, and then we will be cleaning in the afternoon, and then we can play poker with Daddy this evening.” Or, “I will be working in the morning, so you have to either go outside or in the living room. If you're quiet enough so I can get stuff done, I will take you to the beach after lunch.” These plans I described were not actually any different from what we were already doing, but the kids did so much better when they know what to expect.
by now you're thinking, “What does this lady want, a medal? So she tells her kids what they're going to do today — so big deal!”
You're absolutely right. It's no big deal. everybody knows that too much formless time, with no expectations, no goals, no limits, can be liberating and enjoyable for a while; but that eventually, we all need to hike up our britches and make a few plans.
everyone does know this, right? maybe not. I keep hearing that it's just a conservative myth that women suddenly wake up in their late 30's and realize they forgot to have kids — and yet I keep hearing about things like this project: the wonder Clock, which is apparently (plug your ears, Caravaggio) Art.
Mira Kaddoura, who designed the wonder Clock, tells of the shocking moment when her doctor reminded her that, if she wanted to have kids, she should probably do it sooner, rather than later. The thought had apparently literally never occurred to her before.
“We were raised like we can do it all,” she explains. “I was raised very much equal to my brothers; I never thought there was anything differentiating me. [That doctor visit] was the first time anything came up that made me realize, you can't have everything. If you want to have kids one day, you might have to change a few things, or consider it seriously.”
So she designed a sort of belt thing, with a digital display that ticks off the years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds of likely fertility that remain to her (you can see her clock ticking here, or get your own app). It's not, of course, a diagnostic or medical tool, since so many factors besides age affect fertility.
Kaddoura told [the Atlantic Wire], “It's not trying to come up with some scientific formula, because there is none.” Instead, she hopes to open up the conversation, get people education about the topic, and make more information about it available.
Let's put aside for the moment (in the same way as I put aside, say, a sock that turns out to be disturbingly wet) the question of whether “something that makes people talk” is, by definition, art; and let's ask the more obvious question:
What the heck is she talking about? “Get people education?” “Make more information about it available?” It is somehow secret knowledge that ovaries don't grow back fresh and new each morning like Prometheus' liver? Is it privileged information that women are mortal? I understand that wealthy, aging celebrity moms hide their struggles with infertility while privately paying through the nose for tortuous procedures. But if generations of women truly don't realize that they have a time limit for making new life, then what else must they not understand about their own lives?
Let's not be misled: whether Kaddoura knows it or not, this project isn't about people who are in denial about the limits of fertility. This project is about men and women who don't realize limitations are what make life possible. This is about men and women who don't realize that they will die. why else would you need to strap on an electronic device to remind you of something you're literally made to remember: that night cometh, when no man works?
because we can forget. We're distractible creatures — yanked around by trivialities and worthy causes alike, all of which help us forget that our lives are an arc, a story line, with a beginning, a middle — and yes, an end. Monks used to keep a human skull on their desks to remind them to get something done while they still have time.
I suppose the wonder Clock is something along those lines. at least it's a start. But the point of the ever-present skull was to anchor our wills to the present moment — and at the same time, to turn our hearts to God. It wasn't just a reminder that our time is running out, but a reminder that Time itself is running out: that we're not made for this world, but for the world to come.
The wonder Clock may be a provocative tool to shake people out of their distracted haze. But why make children at all, if all our lives are simply ticking down toward zero? Making babies isn't just one more thing to check off the list while we still have time. Children are a sign that love brings forth life — that love will always bring forth life, even after the end of this world.
Remember that you will die. Remember that you will live forever.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte had won, beating out St. Louis, Cleveland and Minneapolis to become host of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
High-fives all around.
Then came the morning after: Mayor Anthony Foxx knew he had to find someone – and pronto – who could make this very big thing happen.
There was money to raise, staff to hire, contracts to sign, parties to plan, projects to launch, media to woo, volunteers to muster and – most of all – a city to be readied for its close-up on millions of screens around the globe.
“with a job like this, you’re really building an airplane while you’re flying it” is how Foxx describes the challenge today. “and you get one shot.”
To launch and then pilot this effort, the mayor needed someone with the steady hands of a surgeon.
So he called Dr. Dan Murrey – spine surgeon, former county commissioner, CEO of OrthoCarolina and, like Foxx, an alumnus of Davidson College.
That was more than a year ago. the clock that was ticking then is now clanging: Murrey and his 35-member staff at the Charlotte in 2012 host committee have less than 90 days until 35,000 people – including 6,000-plus delegates, 15,000 journalists, countless VIPs and who-knows-how-many protesters – land in the Queen City.
The Democratic National Convention Committee, headed by former Ted Kennedy aide Steve Kerrigan, is planning the actual convention: the proceedings inside Time Warner Cable Arena and, on the final night, at Bank of America Stadium.
But Murrey’s team is responsible for a host of other chores. the biggest: raising $36.6 million to fund the convention, propelling “legacy” projects that will benefit the city after the Democrats leave, staging elaborate parties welcoming delegates and press, telling Charlotte’s story and organizing the Labor Day kickoff – open to the public – at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
For the most part, Murrey – a 1992 graduate of both Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government – is getting good marks for his calm and methodical handling of a job that Foxx says “is a 10 out of 10 in degree of difficulty.”
“I’m glad we selected someone with Dan’s IQ,” says Michael Smith, president and CEO of Center City Partners. “He’s creating an organization that has to collaborate with every existing system in Charlotte.”
There have been some complaints. former Charlotte City Council member Edwin Peacock, a Republican, says he’s a Murrey fan. But he argues, along with others, that Murrey and the DNCC have been unnecessarily tight-lipped about the process – refusing, for example, to say how far along the host committee is in raising that $36.6 million.
“It’s so unlike Dan to not be more transparent,” said Peacock.
Murrey and Kerrigan both give the same answer – some say non-answer – when asked how much money the host committee has raised.
“Right on track” is their default response.
Murrey hasn’t operated on any spines since he became the host committee’s executive director. But he has tapped into other skills that attracted Foxx and will continue to come in handy in the months leading up to Charlotte’s historic week.
‘Ultimate special project’
A fiscally moderate Democrat with a history of building bridges to Republicans, Murrey has been able to work with both party activists focused on getting President Barack Obama re-elected and local corporate leaders, many of them Republican, who want to snatch the spotlight for Charlotte.
That’s a difficult balancing act.
“It’s a job where he has to be very sensitive to Democratic Party constituencies, but at the same time get businesses to help with the parties. I think he’s done very well,” says former Gov. Jim Martin, a Republican. Drawing on his experience as a CEO – on leave from OrthoCarolina, a Charlotte-based orthopedic practice with more than 900 employees – Murrey knew how to start, staff and run a new business, one responsible for officially welcoming September’s visitors and making sure the city shines.
“It’s the ultimate special project,” says Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, who co-chairs the host committee with Foxx. “Dan is pulling people together – some are volunteers, some are paid – to throw a party for three days. But, while we’re throwing the party, he’s also making sure everything is working, down to the traffic patterns.”
And as a Tennessee farm boy who moved his family to Charlotte in 1997 to make a life and a career, he’s become expert at pitching the story – told over the last year to outside reporters and would-be donors – of a city that embraces transplants and responds to economic sea-changes by reinventing itself with the help of those newcomers.
“this is a place where people have come and felt like they can really make a difference in the community,” says Murrey.
Murrey’s willingness to give back to a city in which he’s done well has also impressed some old-line Charlotteans.
When Cammie Harris – grandson of an N.C. governor – heard that Foxx was talking to Murrey about the host committee post, “I called up Anthony and said, ‘What are you doing? He’s going to be in surgery all the time.’”
Told that Murrey was taking a year-plus leave of absence from OrthoCarolina, “that changed my tune,” says businessman Harris, who has agreed to raise $1 million for the host committee. ‘What makes people tick’
Murrey hails from Pulaski, Tenn. – population 7,500.
Growing up on a farm, he fed cattle, hauled hay, built a barn with brother mark and, he says, “did my first surgery … turning bulls into steers.”
But it was going on rounds with his father, a family doctor, that made young Murrey decide on a medical career. when he followed his brother to Davidson, though, he decided to major in religion, not the sciences.
“if you look at all my studies, I’ve tried to figure out what makes people tick,” he explains. “everybody has strong feelings about religion, even if they’re atheist.”
An Eagle Scout and National Youth of the Year Award winner, Murrey continued to achieve at Davidson. As a Stuart Scholar, Murrey sometimes met with mentors, including banker Joe Martin. Martin asked his brother, then-U.S. Rep. Jim Martin, what to tell young Murrey.
“Joe had asked me how to advise this freshman out of Tennessee who wanted to be a medical doctor but wanted to major in religion,” Jim Martin remembers. “I said it was pretty simple: tell him to be Phi Beta Kappa. That’ll get him in a good medical school. Well, he did, but then graduated magna cum laude, which is a notch above (the exclusive academic fraternity).”
That was good enough for Harvard.
Service with solutions
Murrey says Davidson also gave him something that would stay with him: “There’s a sense of obligation (there) toward serving your community.”
Though Murrey had grown up in a Republican household, he would end up serving as a Democrat. after settling in Charlotte, the city’s business community took notice in 2005 when Murrey engineered a merger that formed OrthoCarolina. by 2008, Murrey was CEO.
“That’s a big business and it gave him the skill set to think big, administer well and recruit,” says Republican city councilman Andy Dulin, who sits on the host committee’s advisory steering group.
Also in 2008, Murrey – a first-time candidate – won an at-large seat on Mecklenburg’s board of county commissioners.
He proved adept at raising campaign money and trail-blazed some fresh ideas. An uptown farmer’s market, for example, and a plan to streamline health services. and commissioners of both parties appreciated his even-keeled demeanor and eagerness to dig into the policy details.
But Murrey was a little too quiet when it came to promoting himself and his accomplishments to voters. In 2010, he lost his re-election bid.
“when he rolled off the board, we really missed his medical expertise,” says Democrat Jennifer Roberts, who chaired the board. “We’re still carrying forward a lot of his ideas, but having his intellect and energy would have moved them more quickly.”
Murrey feels he had an impact, especially on health care. But he says it was hard to keep his name before a county that had grown to almost a million people.
“I’m probably just not a good politician,” he concluded.
A few months after his loss came Foxx’s call.
A fundraising ‘bear’
The Charlotte host committee’s uptown offices are bustling these days, with streams of volunteers, interns and staffers.
Quite a contrast, in other words, from when Murrey started on the job in may 2011. he was the committee’s first employee. and wife Katie was the first volunteer.
Mary Tribble, who now heads the host committee’s events planning division, was one of the first people hired. she remembers stopping by the offices early on: “It was empty – a couple of finance people and crickets.”
These days, 12 of the 35 staffers spend their time trying to raise money.
Murrey, too, is on the phone nearly every day, pushing packages for up to $100,000 per person that can bring the donor such perks as hotel rooms, VIP receptions and credentials.
Murrey hits the road a few times a month. While Foxx and Rogers have shown up with Obama at fundraisers in New York and California, Murrey has worked groups in San Diego, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago and Washington.
“These conventions are a bear, an incredibly uphill climb,” says Democrat Ken Eudy, CEO of a Raleigh-based marketing firm. Among other things, he says, the political climate is “so polarized that a business leader who might otherwise be interested in (personally) supporting a political convention might think twice about supporting this convention.”
The host committee needs to come up with the $36.6 million to fund the convention, but also another pot of cash – likely totaling at least $15 million – to pay for the parties and other things.
This latter amount – dubbed the New American City Fund – can accept corporate contributions. But, because the president wants the Charlotte gathering to be a “people’s convention,” the master contract with the DNCC says the host committee cannot use any cash from businesses or lobbyists to pay for the actual convention.
These first-ever restrictions, paired with a pledge to promote the Charlotte region and make this “the most open and accessible” convention ever, has led the host committee to come up with innovative ways to raise what might be called grassroots cash.
Brainstorming sessions by host committee staffers, Murrey says, produced the idea of getting a “Powered by the American People” stock car. the committee then recruited legendary NASCAR racing promoter H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler to invite people to donate $5 apiece to get their names stenciled on the car. More than 3,500 people responded.
Lasting legacy
Murrey’s staff is just one of the teams he plays for as convention week approaches.
Most Thursdays at 2 p.m., he and Foxx, Rogers, Kerrigan and former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt convene. the talk can turn to anything, including what Rogers calls “incoming missiles.” last month, for example, thousands of angry Democrats signed an online petition that called for yanking the convention out of Charlotte after N.C. voters passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
All week, Murrey and Kerrigan work closely together and say they understand each other’s different roles: Kerrigan’s focus is boosting President Obama, especially in the battleground state of North Carolina. Murrey’s is officially nonpartisan: spotlighting Charlotte.
“the most important thing in his job is making sure you realize the huge benefits that this convention can have for Charlotte and this region,” says Kerrigan, who was chief of staff for the committee that hosted the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston.
For starters, those benefits include the estimated $150 million Charlotte area businesses could make from all the convention-related spending.
More long term, leaders hope that all the international media exposure – Fortune magazine just did a major positive profile of Charlotte – will bring to town more businesses, more tourists, more transplants and even bigger events.
Atlanta hosted the Democrats in 1988, and by 1996 the city was the site of the Summer Olympics.
“We tend to dream big here in Charlotte,” Murrey says.
Staying on task
An aerial photo of uptown Charlotte hangs in Murrey’s office. Come early September, that compact strip of land will be America’s political center of gravity.
To be ready will test Murrey’s reputation as a devotee of detail.
“People have a vision of how things are going to fall into place,” he says. “But it’s a matter of making sure they all stay on track.”
Up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise, Murrey is on the job early, in staff meetings, on the phone with potential donors, or standing before another microphone.
Despite all the pressure on him to make sure things go right, Tribble says she’s never heard him raise his voice.
“if Dan wakes up in cold sweats, he doesn’t show it,” she says.
In fact, though he holds his staffers accountable, Tribble says he’s also aware of the stress. she recalls the day when Murrey called in everybody. he opened a sack of potatoes, passed around plastic “potato guns” and invited all to blow off steam by shooting each other with BB-sized pieces of spud.
“It can be helpful to have someone who can calm the room,” Murrey says, “and see the way forward.”
No, Murrey’s wife says, he doesn’t throw things when he gets home. most nights, Murrey – a consummate cook – whips up something to eat for her and the children. the family watches “Top Chef” or “Modern Family.” On Saturdays, Murrey still likes to visit farmers’ markets.
On the job, he says he stays motivated by the example of past Charlotteans who pitched in when the city needed them.
“As I often say when I’m out speaking,” he says, “Charlotte is a place were people come to do well but they’re also expected to do good.”
He still remembers weighing the pros and cons when he got Foxx’s call last year. In the “yes” column, he says, was the chance to work on something that had the potential to be a historic milestone for Charlotte.
The top negative was the unknown. he visited with city leaders, asking them “what they would like to be able to say on September 8, when this is all said and done.”
Their answers help Murrey keep his focus as the days grow more hectic.
And speaking of that, where does he expect to be during convention week?
“everywhere,” he says, smiling.
Maybe Murrey will even run into the president, who picked Charlotte to host this big party.
Murrey met candidate Obama in 2008, but still hasn’t shaken hands with President Obama. says Murrey: “I suspect our paths will cross during the convention.”
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of kids treated in emergency rooms after swallowing batteries — or lodging them in their noses and ears — has almost doubled over the past 20 years, a new study suggests.
Most of those ER trips are due to button batteries, coin-shaped batteries that have become ubiquitous in toys, remote controls and hearing aids and represent a shiny temptation to curious toddlers.
Those batteries carry extra risks, experts said, because if kids swallow them, they can become lodged in the esophagus and start an electrical current flowing through the tissue — without kids showing any signs of immediate injury.
“If a child swallows a button battery, the parent might not see it happen and the child might not have symptoms initially — and the clock is ticking,” said Dr. Gary Smith, head of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and one of the authors on the new study.
“We’ve seen children in less than two hours have severe, severe injuries from button batteries getting caught in the esophagus,” he told Reuters Health.
Using a nationally-representative sample of about 100 U.S. hospitals with 24-hour ERs, Smith and his colleagues calculated that more than 65,000 kids under age 18 had a battery-related ER visit between 1990 and 2009.
The rate of those injuries almost doubled during the study period — from about four kids for every 100,000 U.S. children each year, to between seven and eight per 100,000.
That’s probably due to more and more household electronics, hearing aids and toys using button batteries, rather than the cylindrical AAAs and AAs. The research team reported Monday in Pediatrics that more than 80 percent of all battery-related ER visits involved button batteries — most of which were swallowed by kids under five.
“They’re shiny, they’re small, and children explore things developmentally with their mouth — if they don’t know what something is, they put it in their mouth,” said Dr. Nicholas Slamon, a pediatrician who has treated battery-related injuries at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware.
There are a few ways button batteries can cause injury, according to Slamon, who wasn’t involved in the new research. they can lodge or wedge in the esophagus and push on its walls, or they can leak acid if the casing around the battery is eroded.
But the most common fear with button batteries, researchers said, is that they can create an electrical current flowing through tissue and burn a hole in the trachea or the esophagus — even if the batteries don’t have enough juice to power a remote control anymore.
Slamon told Reuters Health he and his colleagues see several kids a year who need emergency surgery to retrieve a battery from the throat, or the nose or ear.
But only a small number of visits require such serious intervention. Data from the current study showed that 92 percent of kids who came to the ER were treated there and then home.
Another new study, also from researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, found that over a similar 20-year time period, about two out of every 10,000 babies and toddlers went to the ER every year for injuries related to bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups — mostly due to falls while kids were walking or running with those products.
That’s still lower than the number of young kids who suffer injuries related to cribs and household cleaning products, for example, according to researchers led by Sarah Keim.
But most parents are aware of the need to put poisonous cleaning products out of reach, for example.
Susan Sadaskus of Powell, Ohio, said she read all the information on how to baby-proof her house, setting up gates and covering outlets.
But it was just before Thanksgiving 2010 that she learned firsthand about one risk no one had warned her about, Sadaskus said.
While her 15-month-old son, Max, was playing on the living room floor, she noticed a piece of plastic she didn’t recognize, and later found the stereo remote nearby, missing its battery casing.
“We’d never used the remote, so we weren’t sure if there was a battery in it,” said Sadaskus, who also said that until then, her son hadn’t been prone to put foreign things in his mouth.
So it wasn’t until dinner, when Max couldn’t keep down any food or milk, that she and her husband decided to take him to their local ER — “to err on the side of caution.”
It was at the ER that doctors found the remote battery lodged at the top of her son’s esophagus. Max was transferred via ambulance to Nationwide Children’s and rushed into surgery to remove the battery.
At that point, the battery had been in Max’s esophagus for a little over two hours, Sadaskus said. Surgeons weren’t sure if they got the battery out early enough to prevent damage — but a year and a half later, Max doesn’t suffer any complications.
“The issue with this remote was the battery compartment was not secure — there was not a screw on this battery compartment,” Sadaskus said.
Since then, she and her husband have gotten rid of all remotes in the house, and throw away any singing greeting cards their son has gotten — which also contain button batteries and can be easily ripped open.
“We really are diligent in making sure those button batteries are not in our house, or if they are in our house, they’re secure.”
Experts agreed that parents should make sure all compartments on battery cases are screwed in, if possible, or that they’re securely taped shut.
And if parents are discarding a dead battery, it should be thrown out in a container, in the bottom of the trash where kids are unlikely to go fishing for it, Slamon said.
“The real way to prevent these (emergencies) is to prevent the event from happening in the first place,” Smith said.
But, he added, “If (parents) suspect something, they need to get to the hospital and get an X-ray done immediately.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/jsoh2P Pediatrics, online May 14, 2012.
We often see the heading plastic surgery gone wrong on the gossip magazines, and while cosmetic surgery used to be the domain of the rich and famous it is now becoming increasing more popular in the mainstream. People are placing more emphasis than ever on the way they look and also becoming equally driven in their desire to achieve a particular look. This is a shift of societies consciousness and probably largely related to the media’s appraisal of a beauty. the role of cosmetic surgery in this quest for perfection has been catapulted by it’s popularity in Hollywood. the task of with holding high levels of plastic surgery in America is the responsibility of the American board of plastic surgery, with one of their main tasks being prevention of plastic or cosmetic surgery gone wrong mishaps.
Today the choice of cosmetic surgery to correct small issues or wind back the age clock of the face or body is a perfectly normal option. While certainly not the choice for everyone, for some with a strong sense of vanity it is a great option. However, it must be noted that even if the desired outcomes are glamorous, that plastic surgery does carry a risk with it.
Learning the facts and truth is an important part of saving yourself becoming a surgery gone wrong story. Research has shown that one in four people will have some complication post surgery. it may be as mild as an infection or it could be as severe as having the wrong procedure. the problems can be as fatal as death for some very unfortunate individuals.
The risk of cosmetic surgery can come from many things including the type of anesthetic used during the procedure, the skill of the surgeon and the original health of the surgery recipient. all this can result in further complications for the patient and the outcomes can be be expensive, time consuming, painful and stressful.
The probability of being on the receiving end of a plastic surgery gone wrong procedure is always present as with any physical intervention. Examples can include the female who wants a breast enhancement in conjunction with a breast lift. if the cosmetic surgery goes wrong she may end up with larger breasts in the same low position. if she is really unlucky her new breasts may not be too much bigger than her old ones. And we have all seen pictures of poorly done face lifts that look simply terrible. just be aware that plastic surgery is still a surgical procedure that carries surgical risks with it. This interest in surgery gone wrong is fueled by the celebrity magazines and our interest in the mishaps.
There is a lot of interest in celebrity plastic surgery gone wrong stories. May be out of jealousy or spite people are amused by the misfortune of the rich and famous. in one way it shows that even with the best that money can buy you can not avoid all risk associated with plastic surgery. Plastic/cosmetic surgery can transform a life for better but when surgery goes wrong it can have life threatening issues. Infection post surgery can be a potentially life threatening complication or embarrassing examples of cosmetic surgery gone wrong can include ugly scarring from breast implants.
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I have lived my whole life with a large/high forehead and it has caused me to be extremely self conscious throughout the years. Ive heard of hair transplant surgery, but was wondering about forehead reduction surgery. anyone know anything about it?
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Answer by ltlcoonyi really don’t know but that seems pretty drastic perhaps you not abscess so much on that.. Popeye said it best I am what I am and that’s all I can be we all can’t be super models.. with any plastic surgery there are health risks not to mention scaring and the fixes are only temporary you will have to have periodic maintenance procedures
Most middle-aged people who get face-lifts and other cosmetic surgery do so because they want to look younger. But since youth is partly in the eye of the beholder, it’s difficult to measure whether a procedure successfully turns back the clock, and by how much.
In a new study, a team of plastic surgeons set out to pin down exactly how many years a person can expect to shed under the scalpel. the surgeons asked medical students to estimate the ages of patients in before-and-after pictures, and the results suggest that facial surgery reduces a person’s outward age by about six to eight years, depending on the extent of the procedure.
The study, which was published online Monday in the journal Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, was designed to fill a gap in the information available to prospective patients, says lead author Dr. Nitin Chauhan, a plastic surgeon at the University of Toronto.
“It’s nice to have an objective measure,” says Dr. Chauhan, noting that few studies have tried to quantify the results of cosmetic surgery. “Some of our patients like to have concrete numbers to look at, and the more information you can provide, the more it facilitates decision-making.”
The concrete numbers aren’t intended to be a sales pitch, however. on the contrary, Dr. Chauhan says, they’ll help temper patients’ hopes for what a plastic surgeon can achieve.
“nothing we do is magical,” he says. “we do certainly get 60-year-old patients who want to look 40, and this will help us when we discuss expectations.”
The study included 54 women and six men ages 45 to 72 who underwent cosmetic surgery on their face. Dr. Chauhan and his colleagues assembled before-and-after photos of each patient, mixed them up at random, and then had 40 first-year medical students guess the age of the person in each photo.
On average, the students said the patients looked 7.2 years younger in their after photo than in their before photo. moreover, the average age the students assigned to the after photos was roughly nine years lower than the patient’s actual age when the photo was taken.
The more work a person had done, the younger they tended to look afterward. People who had a face-lift and neck lift looked an average of 5.7 years younger post-surgery. Adding in eyelid work shaved off nearly two additional years, and adding a forehead lift on top of that took off about another year. People who had all four procedures were said to look 8.4 years younger in their after picture.
The results come with a big caveat: All of the procedures were performed by the same surgeon, Dr. Peter Adamson, who is also at the University of Toronto and was a co-author of the study. “in different surgeons’ hands, results may vary,” Dr. Chauhan says.
Still, the numbers will likely be a helpful reference point for patients who are considering various procedures, Dr. Chauhan says. he adds, however, that age is only one of several factors that matter to patients.
“Patients want to look rejuvenated, more refreshed, less tired,” he says. “the biggest message we get is that they don’t want to look operated on or unnatural.”
The jowls, the pouches, the hooded eyes looking back at you in the mirror are causing a huge drop in the confidence you once exuded. Here you are, middle aged to late adult and the aging you see in your face needs to be addressed if you want to look and feel on top of the game of life.
You know you will never look eighteen again nor will you have those rock hard abs and slim thighs that Matthew McConaughy loves in a woman but hey, you know you do not want to look like your Mom when she hit her middle stride or great Aunt Helen when she developed the dreaded wattle that greatly aged her once beautiful face.
The smorgasbord of anti- aging choices may have you baffled. After consulting with those who specialize in plastic surgery, dermatology, skin care, those you love, friends who have had procedures and those who haven’t; you now are armed with the latest and up-to-date arsenal of anti-aging procedures and methods that promote an illusionary promise to turn back the clock.
Yes, you want a younger looking face, but what’s this? have you waited too long to have a successful surgical facelift? just how old is too old and these lists of complications and warnings, do they apply to everyone?
After the Donda West heart stopping tragedy, we now know that many men and women over the age of fifty have physical conditions such as issues with uncontrolled blood pressure, the beginning of heart disease, hematoma possibilities due to thin skin and previous health constraints that may create big red warning flags to a surgeon.
Previous surgeries, drug reactions, medications and even unrealistic expectations may prevent you from having a successful face lift surgery. Potential risks and complications that vary in severity are very real and you must proceed cautiously. Plastic surgery does not come with a money back guarantee and the results are permanent.
Even a simple eye lift may leave you dissatisfied with the results as you cope with swelling, eyelids that no longer close and excessive tearing. Infection and scarring are other risks that can present a challenge to your good looks.
Re-inventing yourself using surgery may not be for you.
Using injections also has drawbacks. Allowing foreign substances to be injected over and over year after year to plump and paralyze your sagging features may not always produce the desired effect as aging continues to affect the symmetry of your face.
Plumping up moderate not too deep lines and wrinkles is an art and when you choose injections you may not always like the results. too, these temporary measures can have serious side effects that go far beyond redness and irritation at the injection site.
Perhaps surgery and injections are not appealing; the done look so prevalent in today’s society might be right for some, but maybe not right for you. Benefits, precautions, adverse warnings and risks can be confusing.
An option that makes absolute sense if you really, truly desire a younger looking face is exercise. Facial exercise that uses resistance and contraction will slowly and steadily rebuild your facial muscles so they plump up. This action makes your skin look healthier; it acts and feels younger and smoother.
Just as exercise works for your body to sculpt and trim waist, tummy, hips and thighs, facial exercise can create a younger, more vibrant appearance when oxygenated blood is forced throughout the facial area. the face immediately begins to reflect the benefit of these exercises and every area of the face can be lifted, sculpted and refined with simple movements that are easy to understand and execute.
Will you look like you’re twenty again? no, but if you want to look five, ten, even fifteen years younger, facial exercise is the safest procedure around. think of it as a facelift without side effects.
Watch your face transform as the lines smooth and a youthful contour develops right before your eyes. You’ll save thousands of dollars and never be at risk for the sake of beauty. Now when you look in the mirror, you’ll want to say, well, hello gorgeous
With a society quite literally obsessed with looking young and everything associated with this notion, there is little we can do to escape this subject in the media, the stores we shop in and on the internet that we so rely on in the 21st century.
You would think that those with particular interest in this topic would at least be in the slightly later stages of their life and looking for that little bit of work to turn back the clock. this, quite worryingly, is not always the case; the youth of today now seem to be looking to go one step further and looking young and vibrant, it seems, is not good enough.
A recently discovered syndrome (Hyper-aesthetic syndrome to be exact) has left youths as young as 16 wanting to look as good as they possibly can in a bid to emulate the brushed up and seemingly perfect celebrities in the glossy magazines that they pour over on a day to day basis.
Up there on the list of highly sought after procedures is breast augmentation (breast enlargement surgery), liposuction, rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and even tattoo removal.
Of course this will only be possible for those who have a large amount of money of their own or parents who are willing to fund any surgery they require, but it could also lead to teenagers getting into debt to achieve the face and body that they desire.
Some suggest that this disorder could also be attributed to bullying in school which may lead to this desire to change everything about one’s appearance in order to remove themselves from this situation. There are those who argue that counselling would be more useful in these circumstances.
Cosmetic surgery can be useful for correcting problems with facial symmetry in terms of reshaping the nose and pinning back prominent ears which can help restore lost confidence but anyone of a young age considering this should be talked to, to ascertain whether this is the right thing to do and be warned of the psychological impact of plastic surgery.
If you’re tired of dealing with the way that gravity is affecting your looks, then it may be time to turn back the clock with the power of brow lift plastic surgery. Since sagging, lined brow areas give men and women troubled, tired appearances, fixing these areas by lifting them and smoothing away lines and furrows makes an enormous difference.
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