C osmetic surgery is growing in popularity, fueled by a culture of youthful attractiveness, unprecedented affluence and TV “makeover” shows. In 2004, U.S. doctors performed almost 9 million procedures, including such popular operations as breast augmentations, tummy tucks and liposuction. Once the province of celebrities and wealthy matrons, cosmetic surgery today is within the reach of everyon...

objective: this study aimed to examine factors influencing attitudes toward cosmetic surgery among university students. sociocultural attitudes toward appearance, physical appearance perfectionism, and appearance investment were considered as predictors of tendency toward cosmetic surgery. methods: this study was a descriptive-correlative research. one stage cluster sampling was utilized to col...

Figure 1. Sural nerve grafts following end-to-end neurorrhaphies to the frontal (F), zygomatic (Z), buccal (B), marginal mandibular (M), cervical (C) branches, and the facial nerve trunk (FN). DESCRIPTION A 45-year-old man with a deep lesion to the parotid (shown to be a basal cell carcinoma on biopsy) underwent a radical parotidectomy following discussions in a multidisciplinary meeting. Durin...

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There has been a significant increase in the number of duplicate submissions and plagiarism cases reported in all major journals, including the journals of the Optical Society of America. Duplicate submissions and plagiarism can take many forms, and all of them are violations of professional ethics, the copyright agreement that an author signs along with the submission of a paper, and OSA's pub...

INTRODUCTION Outcome measures of breast reconstruction have used panel assessment of photographs. This provides limited information to the assessor as these images are static.. The aim of this study was to assess whether the use of digital video was a valid assessment tool and to compare its use against photography. METHODS 35 patients post-reconstruction underwent photography, digital video ...

Although many skin conditions are amenable to treatment, on certain occasions dermatology and plastic surgery have not much to offer and patients are left with disfigurements. Cosmetic camouflage is a therapy that has been developed to alleviate the suffering of those who have been disfigured by a congenital or an acquired lesion and who have no other choice than living with their deformity.

Los Angeles, Calif Background: Little is known about interest in cosmetic surgery among the general public or how this interest is related to gender, age, relationship status, body mass index, or body image satisfaction. Methods: The present study tested these associations among a sample of 52,677 heterosexual men and women aged 18 to 65 years who completed the online "ELLE/MSBNC.com Sex and Bo...

BACKGROUND With the rise in popularity of plastic surgery, it is useful to consider those factors that may increase the likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery in a nonpatient population. OBJECTIVES A study was conducted to determine those factors that might motivate a nonclinical, nonpatient population to undergo cosmetic surgery. METHODS A sample of 119 women and 89 men, ages 18 to 59, ...

procedure. Ninety female patients had free flap breast reconstruction at the University of California, Irvine from January of 2004 to December of 2008. The average reimbursement was 38.3 percent of billed charges. The mean and median reimbursement was $6597 and $4962, respectively. Of these 90 patients, seven returned to the group for a cosmetic procedure, for a total of nine procedures. One of...