Partial Face Transplant Update

The Sunday Times

The French partial face transplant patient by report is doing pretty well. Here's an image of her. She has started smoking again. I wonder if her transplanted tissue will make it past the bad effects of the smoking. We will see.


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD



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Flickr badge added

For those who have asked, I have added a Flickr badge to the site (at the right). This will allow me to add images from my practice (only those of patients who have given their consent or asked) to allow me to share a little more about that which I do. There is a fairly varied mixture of everything from cosmetic surgery to trauma and cancer reconstruction. The thumbs are small so you don't have to click on content that you may not want to see. The trauma stuff can be graphic. I have added a few images and will add more as time permits.


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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South Korean Fencer Dropped From Team After Plastic Surgery

New Zealand's Oddstuff.com Story

The headline on the story is a bit misleading. This South Korean fencer was dropped from the team after missing practice after having plastic surgery. At first it sounded like the coaches had problem with the surgery itself. Who knows? Maybe they did. It would be a shame if she missed olympic level competition because of it.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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More on the Florida Fake "Botox" Story

Palm Beach Post Story


So the doctor in Florida got the toxin from a company in California called "List Biological Laboratories." I had not heard of them. I still wonder exactly what that stuff was and who made it. An american company sold it. The injured people are going after them in court.

I had a rude poster that I silenced today. He accused me of being unduely harsh on foreign plastic surgeons. It is not so really. In the US there is a court system if the patient has been justifiably mistreated. You don't have that in Mexico or most of those other places. That is part of the increased risk patients take in those lands. You stand to save serious green in Thailand, but if there is a problem you are kinda high and dry.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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Florida doctor gets 3 years for "Botox" poisoning

MSNBC.Com Story


This osteopath injected several people with a botulinum toxin that had not been FDA approved. This story may confuse alot of people as there are several FDA-approved botulinium toxins on the market. The two used in the US are Botox TM (botulinum type A) and Myobloc TM (botulinum type B). There will soon be a third that I believe will be called Dysport TM. I have been using Myobloc for several years. It is FDA approved and safe. I wonder where Dr X here got his drug and what exactly it was. It was certainly not Myobloc.


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

P.S. The "TM" s are there because I got a silly letter from the Allergan people. They are pretty ticked off that I am not using their drug. If their attitude and price were a little better, I might be.


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Australian Plastic Surgeons Warn of Overseas Surgery

The Age Story

In Australia, it seems patients are trying out cheaper surgery in Bangkok, the Philippines, Indonesia, Argentina, Iran and Ukraine.

There is a little more on the treatment of mistakes in this piece. They do not talk about problems that cannot entirely be corrected though.


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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UK Cheap Plastic Surgery Market in Pakistan

The Independent Story

Asian women in their twenties are traveling to Pakistan for their discount plastic surgery. At least the piece talks about a bit of the risk element like I did in the foreign country case at CosmeticSurgeryDisasters.com.

We have Mexico and they have Pakistan.


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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Lip Fillers Story and I disagree - a surprise?

NBC San Diego.Com Story

Soft tissue fillers are helpful to a certain extent in the average case. For one, the absorbable ones (Restylane, Captique, Hylaform, Collagen, etc) really don't last very long. This story says up to six months. It is probably 1/3 to 1/2 of that in the average patient.

The more permanent methods can be really scary as you age. Goretex, in my not-so-humble opinion, belongs in ski jackets and not your lips. I have seen a case or two in which it got infected and it put a serious mark on the patient's appearance. This story is a bit too rosy for my tastes, but you can read it all the same.



Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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Jenny Mc Carthy - Too Much Botox?

Image Credit

It seems the Golden Globes featured some celebrities with some plastic surgery on display. Teri Hatcher and Jenny McCarthy featured foreheads that don't move much courtesy of a Botox compound I'd wager. A little less next time ladies.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD



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Jessica Simpson Plastic Surgery or Right Cross?

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Someone was asking if this is trauma or plastic surgery. With this gal (depending upon who you believe,) it could be either. Does anybody know if both eyes were bruised?

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD



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Face transplant patient ventures out in public

MSNBC.Com Story


Now she is starting to walk amongst us (well the French).


Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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Arnold Schwarzenegger crashes Motorcycle - Lip Cut

Arnold Schwarzenegger wiped out on his motorcycle this weekend and ended up at St John's in Santa Monica for sutures reports have it. Anybody know if he let the ER doc do the honors or did he call a plastic surgeon?

Just curious.

Image obtained from
The Superficial

Partial Face Transplant Patient Regaining Sensation

CNN.Com Story

The partial face transplant patient is regaining sensation CNN.com reports. Pretty cool.



Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD


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Face Transplant Doc Also a Politician

CBS News

They must have good liability protection for doctors in France. A doctor that is also a politician but operates for fun 1 day a week does an operation that had never been done before and admits that his hands are old? In the US, this operation would have never happened and/or the doctor that performed it would have been sued up and down the block.

The French are always entertaining. I wonder how the patient is doing.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD



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Sauna Belt Info-mercial Rant

Walking through the doctor's lounge at the hospital there was an "info-mercial" playing for some weight loss belt called the "Sauna Belt."

People are losing inches around the waist in an hour. Yeah, that's the effect of compressing and heating your fat. Measure your waist in another hour (without the belt) and it will be back. They say it is due to sweating. Are people naive enough to believe they can lose inches in an hour by sweating and have it stay off?

This sells to the average american who wants results and wants to do nothing to achieve them. Am I just jaded or will this thing sell?

Where are federal regulators when you need them?

Geez.

Until Later,

JPD


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Happy New Year

Best wishes for the new year. I hope everybody had a safe evening.