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Credit cards help erase wrinkles

Trying to compete in a tight job market or to simply keep the signs of aging at bay, more patients are using plastic to pay for cosmetic surgery lest their appearance go the way of the sagging economy.

Calabasas real estate agent Diane P. considers the $8,000 breast augmentation she put on her credit card simply a cost of doing business, the same as the Botox and Restylane treatments she uses to disguise the tiny wrinkles and lines that come with being 44. Read more

               

4 ways to lower your risk when visiting a spa

A medical spa may seem to offer the best of both cosmetics-treatment worlds: a lush spot where you can go to be pampered, while enjoying the very latest in technology to improve your appearance.

But despite the adjective “medical,” you can’t assume that these spots are always the healthiest places to go. More than half, or 56 percent, of dermatologic surgeons surveyed in 2007 said that patients had come to them for help after developing complications from a cosmetic procedure that a non-physician had performed. These complications included burns, scarring and skin discoloration. Read more

               

Botox boosts dating success

Getting Botox jabs might be a painful procedure, but it indeed makes you look attractive and improves dating success, according to a new study.

Getting Botox jabs might be a painful procedure, but it indeed makes you look attractive and improves dating success, according to a new study. Read more

               

Guide to Body Contouring Equipment

There are now many new entrants into the Body Contouring equipment realm.   PSP magazine has many of the them compiled in the following online report: Body Contouring: The Major Players.  Here you will see CoolTouch CTEV, Cynosure SmartLipo, Mentor UltraSculpt,  Sound Surgical Technologies Vaser, and Thermage ThermaCoolNXT.  Read more

               

Leveraging the Internet to do more

“We all need to do more with less. With dwindling marketing budgets and increased costs, medspas and aesthetic medicine practices need to utilize strategies that can increase medical spa patient visits,” says IAPAM executive-director, Jeff Russell.  Check out these internet-based tools our IAPAM members are using to successfully (and inexpensively) increase their medical spa revenues: Read more

               

Aesthetic Medicine in Today’s Economy

With the current state of the economy, we’re seeing more cosmetic surgeries put on hold and being replaced by non-surgical, more inexpensive options like Botox, dermal filler injections, and skin rejuvenation using IPL and/or lasers.

In a survey in April and May of more than 600 plastic surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reported that almost 53 percent said the downturn in the economy has had an adverse impact on plastic surgery practices. Read more

               

Botox for dudes: No longer a secret shame

The buzz about metrosexuals may have died down, but men’s desire to look good certainly hasn’t. These days, many are turning to Botox to smooth out frown lines and forehead creases.

IAPAM member, Dr. Michael Stanford, co-owner of Embrace Spa in St. Petersburg, said the percentage of his Botox clients who are men has grown from just a handful five years ago to about 10 percent. Reasons range from a greater acceptance of the procedure to a high divorce rate, which thrusts men back into the dating scene, he says. Younger guys do it for prevention. Read more

               

Syringe sharing - Will you get more than you bargained for the next time you get a Botox injection?

So many things could come to mind when someone is about to stick a needle into your face to purposefully partially paralyze you. Among them, thanks to this year’s Endoscopy Center syringe-sharing fiasco in Las Vegas, should be this: Is this qualified medical professional exercising prudent single-patient-use procedures?

As the needle deactivates your worry lines, remember: If your doctor, nurse, spa aesthetician or Craigslist Botox-party pro is not abiding by rules adopted this summer in reaction to the Endoscopy Center’s hepatitis C outbreak, you could be exposed to similar transference of disease. Trouble is, the regulations apply to ambulatory surgery facilities, not spas and doctor’s offices and living rooms. Read more

               

Could cosmetic fillers help your aging skin?

Pump up the volume!

That’s the latest rallying cry among those in the front lines of the war on aging. The sagging facial skin that was once made taut by going under the surgeon’s knife is now being restored to more youthful fullness using needles and cosmetic fillers instead. Read more

               

New Cosmetic Trends Change the Face of the Australian Botox Market

Previously associated with glamourous celebrities and wealthy ladies of leisure, Botox is now evolving into an affordable non invasive cosmetic procedure as socially acceptable as the standard leg wax. No longer is a Hollywood film premiere the ultimate Botox occasion - recent trends have seen an increasing number of brides go under the needle before the big day, as well as people undergoing the procedure for the Christmas season and other events Read more

               

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