V>W=F (Volume creation more than wrinkle treatment =Femininity)

Attended 2 presentations in Sydney in the last week on injectables

Excellent presenters Dr. Danny Vleggar (Switzerland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldezLZKQlaM & Dr Glenn Murray (Perth) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6xA1GCM0A while demonstrating different injectable products both focused on Volumisation in preference to Wrinkle treatments in modern aesthetic facial rejuvenation.
This trend to volumise rather than to "chase" wrinkles is completely correct in my opinion and is certainly  reflected in the wonderful outcomes achieved by informed cosmetic aesthetic practitioners.
In this regard the disappointing outcomes we frequently witness with formal radical face lift outcomes are founded on the erroneous objective of stretching the face (achieving wrinkle reduction) rather than creating aesthetic contours. We frequently see patients who have spent near $20,000 on face lifting with unnatural and rather "de-contoured" faces who require their faces aesthetically "re-contoured" with appropriate fillers. They leave the clinic generally delighted with their feminising outcomes. A few have stated I had the wrong procedure having a face lift?? We try to be diplomatic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3hYzRIOJrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=yfPO147wxYs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1D666k0nvA

Tweaking Facial Rejuvenation with Muscle Relaxant Injections

Traditionally teaching encouraged cosmetic injectors to over-treat faces with muscle relaxants,  often resulting in cases of stunned and rather expressionless features. Add to that droopy brows, droopy cheeks, asymmetrical smiles diminishing character. Generally the effects are to be endured for some 3-4 months. The following celebrity examples attest to this unfortunate trend.
http://pinterest.com/barbiegurl29/botox-gone-bad-celebs-with-out-make-up/

For some years now many Australian injectors have appreciated that less is more and that subtle treatments should prevail. Judicious tweaking with these injections can enhance other the outcomes of other facial enhancement procedures.  So we are effectively value adding with such injections.

Will expand on this interesting topic in a future blog.

Weird Therapies and Procedures

Fringe if not bizarre cosmetic procedures abound, with questionable professional ethics only matched by gullibility of some patients.

Women considering genital enhancement surgery should first consult the following paper just published online: http://whv.org.au/static/files/assets/ca7e9b2f/Women-and-genital-cosmetic-surgery-issues-paper.pdf
 A short excerpt from this article follows:   Women and Genital Cosmetic Surgery. Women’s Health Issues Paper No. 9, February 2013 Page 1 © Women’s Health Victoria

9.1 Reduced sensation
It is ‘not yet understood exactly how labia minora engorgement during sexual arousal may be involved in sexual pleasure and how labia removal might affect this’4. However, there is evidence to suggest that female genital cosmetic surgery involves removal of tissue that may contribute to sensory sexual arousal28, 66, and is likely to interfere with innervation and sensation in the genital area10, 34, 66, 67. The outcomes of genital surgeries suggest decreased enjoyment of being caressed, impaired arousal and lubrication, and an inability to reach orgasm12, 36.

There is a particular risk of providing female genital cosmetic surgery to younger women who may not fully understand the implications for their future sexual lives
68. Genital surgery during adolescence risks damaging sensitive genital tissue and may require reoperation68 if puberty is incomplete. The risk associated with operating too early in a woman’s development is highlighted in the case of a ten-year-old pre-pubescent girl who underwent one procedure on her left labia minora and, nine months later, had the same operation on her right labia minora. The surgeons themselves reflected that ‘in retrospect we feel that she could have had both operations after puberty’32.

There is no information to demonstrate how female genital cosmetic surgeries will impact on childbirth



http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-sex/sex/the-disturbing-rise-of-the-g-spot-jab-1.1464150
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2245450/Cosmetic-fillers-destroy-looks-The-truth-botox.html