Very honoured to be invited as an international speaker and to conduct a workshop at the New Zealand College of Appearance Medicine 2013 annual conference.
http://www.nzcam.co.nz/CONFERENCE+2013.html
Interesting subjects to present on include fat transfer grafting and neuromodulators in aesthetic enhancement.
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Blepharoplasty Upper Eyelids Start to The Working Week
Love starting the week with a significant rejuvenating procedure like blepharoplasty upper lids.
Only 5mls total of local anaesthesia used after careful marking of the upper lids. 2 hours later left the clinic with her husband driving her home.
No pain, no fuss, no general anaesthesia and a new result already evident. All performed with almost bloodless radiofrequency energy incisions, excisions, tightening of the subcutaneous tissues and orbicularis oculi muscles. Skin incisions were closed with a very fine 6/0 grade suture.
Very happy patient already can view the initial outcome.
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Only 5mls total of local anaesthesia used after careful marking of the upper lids. 2 hours later left the clinic with her husband driving her home.
No pain, no fuss, no general anaesthesia and a new result already evident. All performed with almost bloodless radiofrequency energy incisions, excisions, tightening of the subcutaneous tissues and orbicularis oculi muscles. Skin incisions were closed with a very fine 6/0 grade suture.
Very happy patient already can view the initial outcome.
| Pre-operative marking |
| Immediately post operation |
| 1.4mm skin excised each upper eyelid and some fat as well. |
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013
"A Wallet-Ectomy" The 11 most Overrated Cosmetic Procedures.
"A Wallet-Ectomy."
As cosmetic doctors we do get rather excited about promising advances in our field.
Sadly however quite a significant number of such advances prove to be in the nature of ‘vendre un canard à moitié’ (to half-sell a duck)!
The 11 Most Overrated Cosmetic Surgery Procedures from Allure magazine:
http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/2013/overrated-cosmetic-surgery-procedures#slide=12
As cosmetic doctors we do get rather excited about promising advances in our field.
Sadly however quite a significant number of such advances prove to be in the nature of ‘vendre un canard à moitié’ (to half-sell a duck)!
The 11 Most Overrated Cosmetic Surgery Procedures from Allure magazine:
http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/2013/overrated-cosmetic-surgery-procedures#slide=12
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Interviewed in the June edition of Women's Health & Fitness Magazine:
"There comes a time when you'll have to choose between your rhymes-with-farce and your face, so the saying goes. That time is now, as the next big thing in facial filling doesn't gel with single-digit body fat. 'Autologous fat transfer facial filling' uses fat from one part of your body – liposucked out of your butt, thighs, abdomen or jowls – to plump up your face.
"It's rich in stem cells, fortified with autologous blood derived growth factors.
The results can be breathtaking with long lasting youthful re-contouring and scarless outcomes," says Cosmetica cosmetic physician Dr Ronald Feiner. The bonus is an improvement in overlying skin. But chicken breast dieters beware: "In slender patients without body fat (and always for cases of lip enhancement) commercial fillers remain the mainstay of treatment."
Read more:
http://www.womenshealthandfitness.com.au/home
https://www.facebook.com/womenshealthandfitness
Sunday, 19 May 2013
The Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery (ACCS) Liposuction Workshops – May 2013, Sydney
According to our Regen www.regenlab.com/site/ representative, we probably performed the first PRP enhanced fat graft (extracting abdominal fat and transfer grafting it into the face) in Australia and actually videoed that event. We did not fully appreciate the exciting future of this development in facial aesthetic enhancement practice.
I had the pleasure of participating as one of four trainers at the ACCS Liposuction Workshops event last weekend http://www.accs.org.au/pdf/ACCS-liposuction-workshop-program-2013.pdf.
My fellow trainer colleagues Dr. Soo-Keat Lim, Dr. Sarojini Nair www.ashbrookecosmetic.com.au/surgery-staff/
& Dr Ralph Bright www.cosmeticmedicine.com.au/world-class-facility/cosmetic-surgeons-sydney/ are masters in this field of work. It was a great pleasure to work with them, passing on our collective experience to enthusiastic doctors from a variety of medical craft groups eager to introduce these techniques into their own practices. The trainees were of a very high standard and included general surgeons, neurosurgeon, facio-maxillary surgeon, breast cancer surgeon and medical generalists.
Dr. Bright is also a respected expert in the clinical application of adipose derived (i.e. from fat) Stem cells and platelet derived (i.e. from blood) growth factors. His insights into this brave new world are fascinating and reinforce our own intuitive perceptions about the value of both fat reduction by liposculpture and fat transfer grafting for facial rejuvenation.
Among many interesting topics Dr. Bright explained how fat, being full of stem cells, is important for immunity and how successfully grafted fat improves the tissues into which it has been injected.
As an aesthetic injectable filler it is amazingly bioactive in function in contrast to comparatively inert commercial filler products. Injected fat not only has the propensity to improve facial contours but also improves the adjacent tissues and overlying skin.
"Stem cells and stem cell therapy have been surrounded by myth and magic. As we have learnt more about stem cells and their use fact has begun to replace Myth. At Macquarie Stem Cells for many years we have been moving fat and all the cells it contains around the body (Fat transfer)."
&
"This rich cocktail of cells is known as the Stromal Vascular Fraction (adipose-SVF cells) also contains many growth factors and cytokines. The adipose-SVF cells when grafted into a new location will aid in repair and regeneration of the tissue in their new location. Vast numbers of these cells are available in fat and we routinely transfer hundreds of millions of these cells for each patient."
Dr Bright writes "stem cells release anti-inflammatory messengers, called cytokines, that have an effect on the entire system."
Dr Bright referred to the pivotal work of Dr. Patricia Zuk on Adipose Derived Stem Cells-amazing reading!
http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/21/11/1783.long
I had the pleasure of participating as one of four trainers at the ACCS Liposuction Workshops event last weekend http://www.accs.org.au/pdf/ACCS-liposuction-workshop-program-2013.pdf.
My fellow trainer colleagues Dr. Soo-Keat Lim, Dr. Sarojini Nair www.ashbrookecosmetic.com.au/surgery-staff/
& Dr Ralph Bright www.cosmeticmedicine.com.au/world-class-facility/cosmetic-surgeons-sydney/ are masters in this field of work. It was a great pleasure to work with them, passing on our collective experience to enthusiastic doctors from a variety of medical craft groups eager to introduce these techniques into their own practices. The trainees were of a very high standard and included general surgeons, neurosurgeon, facio-maxillary surgeon, breast cancer surgeon and medical generalists.
Dr. Bright is also a respected expert in the clinical application of adipose derived (i.e. from fat) Stem cells and platelet derived (i.e. from blood) growth factors. His insights into this brave new world are fascinating and reinforce our own intuitive perceptions about the value of both fat reduction by liposculpture and fat transfer grafting for facial rejuvenation.
Among many interesting topics Dr. Bright explained how fat, being full of stem cells, is important for immunity and how successfully grafted fat improves the tissues into which it has been injected.
As an aesthetic injectable filler it is amazingly bioactive in function in contrast to comparatively inert commercial filler products. Injected fat not only has the propensity to improve facial contours but also improves the adjacent tissues and overlying skin.
Dr. Bright has stated (http://www.macquariestemcells.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/R1.-Introduction-to-Macquarie-Stem-Cells.pdf):
"Stem cells and stem cell therapy have been surrounded by myth and magic. As we have learnt more about stem cells and their use fact has begun to replace Myth. At Macquarie Stem Cells for many years we have been moving fat and all the cells it contains around the body (Fat transfer)."
&
"This rich cocktail of cells is known as the Stromal Vascular Fraction (adipose-SVF cells) also contains many growth factors and cytokines. The adipose-SVF cells when grafted into a new location will aid in repair and regeneration of the tissue in their new location. Vast numbers of these cells are available in fat and we routinely transfer hundreds of millions of these cells for each patient."
Dr Bright writes "stem cells release anti-inflammatory messengers, called cytokines, that have an effect on the entire system."
Dr Bright referred to the pivotal work of Dr. Patricia Zuk on Adipose Derived Stem Cells-amazing reading!
http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/21/11/1783.long
Friday, 26 April 2013
News Releases - ASAPS Annual Meetings - ASAPS Press Center - Do Stem Cell Claims in Aesthetic Surgery Hold Up?
Do Stem Cell Claims in Aesthetic Surgery Hold Up?
“There is a lot of marketing hype about the role of stem cells in aesthetic procedures,” said Dr. Singer of La Jolla, CA. “We are hopeful that this is the next frontier, but, unfortunately, there is no current scientific evidence that stem cells improve aesthetic outcomes.”
News Releases - ASAPS Annual Meetings - ASAPS Press Center - Do Stem Cell Claims in Aesthetic Surgery Hold Up?
Certainly in my practice a sample of blood that allows us to extract growth factors from platelets do appear to enrich harvested fat, improving the success rate of that grafted fat. However there is a lot of science to evolve before the impression is proven.
US plastic surgeon Dr Sydney Coleman is a longstanding leader in this field. A link to his website appears below.
http://www.lipostructure.com/fat-graft
“There is a lot of marketing hype about the role of stem cells in aesthetic procedures,” said Dr. Singer of La Jolla, CA. “We are hopeful that this is the next frontier, but, unfortunately, there is no current scientific evidence that stem cells improve aesthetic outcomes.”
News Releases - ASAPS Annual Meetings - ASAPS Press Center - Do Stem Cell Claims in Aesthetic Surgery Hold Up?
Certainly in my practice a sample of blood that allows us to extract growth factors from platelets do appear to enrich harvested fat, improving the success rate of that grafted fat. However there is a lot of science to evolve before the impression is proven.
US plastic surgeon Dr Sydney Coleman is a longstanding leader in this field. A link to his website appears below.
http://www.lipostructure.com/fat-graft
Friday, 5 April 2013
"Professional Beauty Magazine" previews our Cosmetex 2013 Paper
"With Cosmetex just around the corner, here is a sneak peek of the talk “Blood, Sweat and Tear Troughs,” which Dr Ron Feiner and Dr Naomi McCullum will be presenting on Saturday 20 April, 2013".
http://www.professionalbeauty.com.au/2013/04/03/article/Cosmetex-2013-Blood-Sweat-and-Tear-Troughs/LHVLMZTDAU.html
http://www.professionalbeauty.com.au/2013/04/03/article/Cosmetex-2013-Blood-Sweat-and-Tear-Troughs/LHVLMZTDAU.html
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