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Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNLFace-chewing victim face surgery, long recovery

By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press

MIAMI (AP) – A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre, vicious attack faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction. he will require months of treatment to rebuild his features and be permanently disfigured.

Though gruesome, such severe facial injuries are generally not life threatening. The most serious risk to Ronald Poppo as he remained hospitalized Wednesday were germs that may have been introduced by the bites of the naked man who attacked him. One of the 65-year-old's eyes was also gouged out.

“The human mouth is basically filthy,” said Dr. Seth Thaller, the chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

It's not clear why Poppo was attacked Saturday afternoon by 31-year-old Rudy Eugene alongside a busy highway. Police have released few details, but surveillance video from a nearby building shows Eugene pulling Poppo from the shade, stripping and pummeling him before appearing to hunch over and then lie on top of him.

A witness described Eugene ripping at Poppo's face with his mouth and growling at a Miami police officer who ordered him to get off the homeless man. The officer shot and killed Eugene.

Eugene's younger brother said he was a sweet person who didn't drink much or use hard drugs.

“I wish they didn't kill him so he could tell us exactly what happened. this is very uncharacteristic of him,” said the brother, who asked for anonymity to protect his family from harassment.

Police union officials representing the officer said the scene on the MacArthur Causeway was one of the goriest they had ever seen.

“He had his face eaten down to his goatee. The forehead was just bone. No nose, no mouth,” said Sgt. Armando Aguilar, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police.

Poppo has been in critical condition in recent days, but police didn't give an update on his condition Wednesday.

Thaller, who is not treating Poppo, and other plastic surgeons said the rebuilding of Poppo's face would happen in stages after doctors try to keep his wounds clean, salvage viable tissue and determine a plan for skin grafts. Protecting his remaining eye and maintaining an airway are priorities.

To keep the wounds clean, doctors use grafts of the patient's skin, cadaver skin or synthetic skin to cover the exposed bone or cartilage, said Dr. Blane Shatkin, a plastic surgeon and director of the wound healing center at Memorial Hospital Pembroke in South Florida. The coverage would act like a dressing, protecting the wound as it heals.

Poppo's lifestyle and health before the attack could determine how doctors proceed and whether they eventually consider a facial transplant, plastic surgeons said. Poppo had been homeless for more than 30 years, previously survived a gunshot wound and faced multiple charges of public intoxication, among other arrests.

“You would not just take this guy to the OR for a face transplant – you really have to go in a staged fashion. you save what you can and use what you have available first, don't burn any bridges and move forward slowly,” Shatkin said. “And you have to see what he wants.”

Psychological care is important to the recovery, and patients need to participate in the decision-making process, said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. he performed a facial transplant on a Connecticut woman who was mauled by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009.

“I think the patient has to be able to cope with the injury and the trauma and needs to figure out what has happened. it often takes them weeks to understand what has happened,” Pomahac said.

The chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, Ron Book, said the last time Poppo sought help from the agency finding someplace to sleep was in 2004. However, on Thursday the Jungle Island zoo on the MacArthur Causeway called for an outreach team to deal with Poppo, who had been living on the roof of the attraction's parking garage.

Poppo was belligerent and aggressive, but he was not arrested, Book said.

A report from the group says that Poppo had been homeless before arriving in Florida. he first came to one of the group's shelters in Miami on Dec. 27, 1999, and he stayed for 141 days. Since then he stayed at another shelter in 2003 for 10 days and several other shelters for one night each.

The attack was captured by security cameras at The Miami Herald's headquarters. The newspaper posted the uncensored video online late Tuesday (http://hrld.us/N9GlGB).

It shows a naked Eugene walking west on the sidewalk alongside an off-ramp of the causeway. A bicyclist speeds past Eugene just as he turns to something in the shade, in an area obscured by palm trees.

After a couple minutes, Eugene rolls Poppo's body into the sun and begins stripping off his pants and pummeling him. later, the footage shows Eugene pull Poppo farther up the sidewalk. Though the view is partially obstructed by the mass transit rail above, Eugene appears to hunch over and lie on top of Poppo.

The footage shows a bicyclist slowly pedaling past the men about halfway through the attack, followed by a car slowly driving on the shoulder of the ramp. Cars regularly pass by the scene from the beginning of the attack, but their view was likely obstructed by a waist-high concrete barrier.

Two more bicyclists cross the scene before a police car arrives nearly 18 minutes into the attack.

An officer gets out of the car and appears to do a double-take at the scene before pulling out his gun. he fatally shot Eugene, apparently within a minute of arriving, but the shooting is obscured from view by the tracks.

Miami police have not released 911 calls. The medical examiner declined to discuss Eugene's autopsy, and results of toxicology tests could take weeks.

Eugene left his girlfriend in Fort Lauderdale around 5 a.m. Saturday, then stopped at a friend's. he said he was on his way to Urban Beach Week, a series of outdoor concerts and parties on Miami Beach, according to his brother. No one knows what led to him walking naked on the causeway.

“Where's the car, where are his clothes? We don't know where his stuff is,” the brother said. “How did he get there naked in the middle of the daytime and nobody saw him?”

Police said that his car was towed from a Miami Beach street sometime Saturday. it was parked illegally and was one of dozens towed during the weekend festivities.

Eugene had a job detailing cars at a dealership and had been arrested a handful of times on marijuana-related charges, his brother said.

“I don't understand any of this,” the brother said. “I know my brother, and anybody else who knows him knows he was a genuinely sweet person.”

Copyright 2012 The associated Press. All rights reserved. this material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNLFace-chewing victim face surgery, long recovery

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By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press

MIAMI (AP) – a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre, vicious attack faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction. He will require months of treatment to rebuild his features and be permanently disfigured.

Though gruesome, such severe facial injuries are generally not life threatening. The most serious risk to Ronald Poppo as he remained hospitalized Wednesday were germs that may have been introduced by the bites of the naked man who attacked him. one of the 65-year-old's eyes was also gouged out.

“The human mouth is basically filthy,” said Dr. Seth Thaller, the chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

It's not clear why Poppo was attacked Saturday afternoon by 31-year-old Rudy Eugene alongside a busy highway. Police have released few details, but surveillance video from a nearby building shows Eugene pulling Poppo from the shade, stripping and pummeling him before appearing to hunch over and then lie on top of him.

A witness described Eugene ripping at Poppo's face with his mouth and growling at a Miami police officer who ordered him to get off the homeless man. The officer shot and killed Eugene.

Eugene's younger brother said he was a sweet person who didn't drink much or use hard drugs.

“I wish they didn't kill him so he could tell us exactly what happened. This is very uncharacteristic of him,” said the brother, who asked for anonymity to protect his family from harassment.

Police union officials representing the officer said the scene on the MacArthur Causeway was one of the goriest they had ever seen.

“He had his face eaten down to his goatee. The forehead was just bone. No nose, no mouth,” said Sgt. Armando Aguilar, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police.

Poppo has been in critical condition in recent days, but police didn't give an update on his condition Wednesday.

Thaller, who is not treating Poppo, and other plastic surgeons said the rebuilding of Poppo's face would happen in stages after doctors try to keep his wounds clean, salvage viable tissue and determine a plan for skin grafts. Protecting his remaining eye and maintaining an airway are priorities.

To keep the wounds clean, doctors use grafts of the patient's skin, cadaver skin or synthetic skin to cover the exposed bone or cartilage, said Dr. Blane Shatkin, a plastic surgeon and director of the wound healing center at Memorial Hospital Pembroke in South Florida. The coverage would act like a dressing, protecting the wound as it heals.

Poppo's lifestyle and health before the attack could determine how doctors proceed and whether they eventually consider a facial transplant, plastic surgeons said. Poppo had been homeless for more than 30 years, previously survived a gunshot wound and faced multiple charges of public intoxication, among other arrests.

“You would not just take this guy to the OR for a face transplant – you really have to go in a staged fashion. you save what you can and use what you have available first, don't burn any bridges and move forward slowly,” Shatkin said. “And you have to see what he wants.”

Psychological care is important to the recovery, and patients need to participate in the decision-making process, said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He performed a facial transplant on a Connecticut woman who was mauled by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009.

“I think the patient has to be able to cope with the injury and the trauma and needs to figure out what has happened. It often takes them weeks to understand what has happened,” Pomahac said.

The chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, Ron Book, said the last time Poppo sought help from the agency finding someplace to sleep was in 2004. However, on Thursday the Jungle Island zoo on the MacArthur Causeway called for an outreach team to deal with Poppo, who had been living on the roof of the attraction's parking garage.

Poppo was belligerent and aggressive, but he was not arrested, Book said.

A report from the group says that Poppo had been homeless before arriving in Florida. He first came to one of the group's shelters in Miami on Dec. 27, 1999, and he stayed for 141 days. Since then he stayed at another shelter in 2003 for 10 days and several other shelters for one night each.

The attack was captured by security cameras at The Miami Herald's headquarters. The newspaper posted the uncensored video online late Tuesday (http://hrld.us/N9GlGB).

It shows a naked Eugene walking west on the sidewalk alongside an off-ramp of the causeway. a bicyclist speeds past Eugene just as he turns to something in the shade, in an area obscured by palm trees.

After a couple minutes, Eugene rolls Poppo's body into the sun and begins stripping off his pants and pummeling him. later, the footage shows Eugene pull Poppo farther up the sidewalk. though the view is partially obstructed by the mass transit rail above, Eugene appears to hunch over and lie on top of Poppo.

The footage shows a bicyclist slowly pedaling past the men about halfway through the attack, followed by a car slowly driving on the shoulder of the ramp. Cars regularly pass by the scene from the beginning of the attack, but their view was likely obstructed by a waist-high concrete barrier.

Two more bicyclists cross the scene before a police car arrives nearly 18 minutes into the attack.

An officer gets out of the car and appears to do a double-take at the scene before pulling out his gun. He fatally shot Eugene, apparently within a minute of arriving, but the shooting is obscured from view by the tracks.

Miami police have not released 911 calls. The medical examiner declined to discuss Eugene's autopsy, and results of toxicology tests could take weeks.

Eugene left his girlfriend in Fort Lauderdale around 5 a.m. Saturday, then stopped at a friend's. He said he was on his way to Urban Beach Week, a series of outdoor concerts and parties on Miami Beach, according to his brother. No one knows what led to him walking naked on the causeway.

“Where's the car, where are his clothes? We don't know where his stuff is,” the brother said. “How did he get there naked in the middle of the daytime and nobody saw him?”

Police said that his car was towed from a Miami Beach street sometime Saturday. It was parked illegally and was one of dozens towed during the weekend festivities.

Eugene had a job detailing cars at a dealership and had been arrested a handful of times on marijuana-related charges, his brother said.

“I don't understand any of this,” the brother said. “I know my brother, and anybody else who knows him knows he was a genuinely sweet person.”

Copyright 2012 The associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Chicago Plastic Surgeon Returns from Baker Gordon Educational Symposium

Dr. Brian Braithwaite, a plastic surgeon in Chicago, recently attended the 46th Annual Baker Gordon Symposium on Cosmetic Surgery in Miami, FL to discuss the latest advancements and improvements made in the realm of aesthetic procedures. Dr. Braithwaite says his experience at the conference offers him a unique perspective on the constantly evolving field of plastic surgery and has further inspired him to continue pursuing the highest level of results and safety for his patients.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 28, 2012

At his Chicago plastic surgery practice, Dr. Brian Braithwaite focuses on a range of cosmetic procedures including breast augmentation, facelift, and tummy tucks. After returning from Miami, FL for the 46th Annual Baker Gordon Educational Symposium on Cosmetic Surgery, Dr. Braithwaite says he is excited to bring the latest innovations and discoveries in aesthetic enhancements back to his practice as a way to continuously improve his abilities and his patients’ satisfaction. the conference, jointly sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School, is designed to distill and clarify essential technical elements in plastic surgery procedures and allow surgeons in attendance to produce the most aesthetically pleasing results possible.

Dr. Braithwaite says key topics at the symposium were the advances and improvements in high-volume liposuction, dermal filler injection techniques, patient safety in combining liposuction with abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), nasal shaping and grafting, and others. He says the most consistently engaging part of the Baker Gordon Symposium is the live demonstrations performed via real-time feed from Mercy Hospital. Dr. Braithwaite says visual educational courses, like the ones displaying live surgeries at the conference, have been a crucial element of his ability to achieve natural results in procedures such as liposuction and tummy tuck in Chicago.

“Beamed from a local hospital operating room, true experts in plastic surgery demonstrate their techniques to a captive audience, carefully explaining each decision, improvement, and potential pitfall. Audience members benefit as if they are scrubbed in on the case. the live surgery element of the Baker-Gordon Symposium makes this conference truly one-of-a-kind.”

Whether his patients are looking for a tummy tuck or breast augmentation in Chicago, Dr. Braithwaite says the benefits of annual attendance at events like the Baker Gordon are evident in all of his procedures. He says keeping up-to-date with the latest techniques and developments means he can provide his patients with the safest, most effective treatments available.

“Conferences such as the Baker-Gordon Symposium are important to me as a plastic surgeon because virtually all the important updates and innovations are discussed during this intense 3 day meeting. It is crucial for board certified plastic surgeons to remain timely and up-to-date in our ever-changing field of cosmetic surgery and injectables.”

About Brian M. Braithwaite, MD, FACS

A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Brian Braithwaite was a member of the U.S. Navy and received his surgical training as a resident in general surgery at Keesler Medical Center, Keesler Air Force Base. He completed a plastic surgery residency at the University of Louisville, and then became a staff plastic surgeon at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, where he served on active duty as the Chief of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Braithwaite was named Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Located at 601 West Randolph Street in Chicago, IL, Dr. Braithwaite’s practice can be reached at (312) 361-8108. He can also be contacted online via the website drbraithwaite.com or facebook.com/drbraithwaite.

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Chicago Plastic Surgeon Returns from Baker Gordon Educational Symposium

Could a nose job make you look younger?

Most people have cosmetic surgery on their nose to correct a natural bump or shape change caused by an accident, but rhinoplasty could have other benefits, according to new research.

A study, which appears in the January/February issue of the journal Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, found that patients who’d had nose jobs looked on average 1.5 years younger.

The research involved observers looking at before and after photos of patients who had undergone surgery and were aged between 15 and 61.

The study also found that older patients benefited most from a more youthful look brought about by surgery and noted that “the rejuvenating effect of rhinoplasty can now be objectively listed as one of the benefits of undergoing this procedure.”

Dr Seth Thaller, chief of the division of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said that patient’s perceptions of themselves often change after surgery and can lead to them appearing younger and rejuvenated.

Could a nose job make you look younger?

A Women’s Skin Wrinkles Faster than Men

Female facial skin is aging faster than men. Facial skin women have hair follicles and oil glands fewer. Functioning oil glands is to produce oil to maintain skin structure and make it feel soft.

Another factor that makes the skin women quick wrinkle is a blood vessel in the vicinity of the mouth less so that the circulation of blood to this area less. if the blood flows a little, oxygen and nutrients that is required is not easy reach the skin surface.

“Naturally, the woman’s muscles around his mouth closer to the skin as a result of skin faster interested and cause wrinkles faster, “said Dr. Moshe Kon, head of the department of plastic surgery, reconstructive and hand from the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Although the number of hair follicles in men and women are equal, men have more sweat glands on each hair follicle. so the skin will be more relaxed. according to Drs. Seth Thaller, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the United States said that the hormone also affects the acceleration of skin aging women.

In menopausal women the hormone estrogen is reduced, blood circulation also declined. it is also causing the frown lines.

Another factor that can not be changed is the change in the jaw bone as you get older. “The older, the jawbone will absorb more slowly so that the bone was shrinking. as a result the skin becomes loose because no one held it,” said Dr. Jessie Cheung, director of cosmetic dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center, new York, USA.

According to Cheung best way to keep skin young is to keep the skin moisture, avoid the sun and not smoking.

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A Women’s Skin Wrinkles Faster than Men