Wednesday, February 25
International superstar Chow Yun Fat revealed undergoing plastic surgery 20 years ago after spotting signs of residing hair line and sagging skin at the corner of his eyes.
Chow was in Korea promoting his new movie "Dragonball" when he surprised the public by saying, "Since the year I made 'God of Gamblers', I realized the skin at the corner of my eyes were sagging and my hairline was residing. A Hong Kong doctor recommended a plastic surgeon who charged reasonably and then I started doing the treatments." That happened almost 20 years ago when he was only 33-years-old.
Chow was so engaged in the topic, he told the Korean host, "I can recommend a doctor to you if you would like to come to Hong Kong for a plastic surgery. You will definitely get a good job done for a reasonable price!" He said he went through plastic surgery for the audience "because they are my boss!"
In fact, many male artistes have undergone radio frequency resurfacing and intense pulse light treatments, one of whom includes Harlem Yu, to retain their youth
Chow Yun Fat revealed undergoing plastic surgery
Hollywood’s annual cosmetic surgery survey
The A-List Surgery Must-Haves
From Grazia Magazine, April 2006
Hollywood’s annual cosmetic surgery survey of the swanky Beverly Hills Institute’s clients lists the top six most-requested A-list features in Hollywood’s operating theatres. “The list used to be dominated by classic beauties ? Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts and Halle Berry ? but this year’s list is full of new talent, including Sienna Miller and Eva Longoria,” says Dr. Richard W. Fleming.
Most Wanted Cheeks: Naomi Watts Old trend: Solid cheek implants — a big operation and costly. Now: Adding volume with injections is quick, reverses the downward slide of time, and brings out your eyes.
Most Wanted Eyes: Sienna Miller Old trend: An overdone rabbit-in-the-headlights look. Now: “The most desired eyes are Sienna Miller’s, i.e., more voluptuous with heavier lids.”
Most Wanted Nose: Jessica Alba Old trend: A teeny ski slope. Now: Noses are stronger with less flesh and bone removed. “The ideal is that nobody can tell you’ve had your nose done,” says Dr. Fleming.
Most Wanted Lips: Scarlett Johansson Old trend: Big Now: As full and as pouty as possible. “Surgeons have to be careful we don’t make the pout too big, otherwise it doesn’t look natural,” says Dr. Fleming.
Most Wanted Breast: Eva Longoria Old trend: A Pammie DD. Now: “A respectable C cup. Clients are asking for breasts that go with the new, slimmer Eva Longoria body look that’s popular now,” says Dr. Fleming.
Most Wanted Jaw: Keira Knightley Old trend: There was less focus on the jaw line. Now: Strong, angular sculpted jaw, with lots more people requesting chin implants and neck liposuction.
Dr. Rokhsar on non surgical nose job.
It's not rhinoplasty nor nose plastic surgery.Now you don't need surgery. It cost a fraction of rhinoplasty. It's ranges for USD $ 800 to $1,300. Watch the above video.
Labiaplasty - Vaginoplasty (Tightening of Vagina)
Cosmetic Labiaplasty involves surgically reducing and/or reshaping the female external genital structures. There are multiple reasons more and more women are requesting this procedure. They want to alleviate discomfort caused by large and/or thick labia, which often interfere with biking, working out, wearing tight fitting clothes. Or many women want to enhance or improve appearance of “butterfly” or asymmetrical labia. Feeling good about how you look often builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
During your labiaplasty consultation, your doctor will explain how long the labia reduction surgery will take, the amount of time and care necessary for a full labiaplasty recovery, and exactly when after surgery it would be safe to resume sexual intercourse.
Vaginoplasty (rejuvenation of the vagina) involves “tightening” and rebuilding of the vaginal muscles and the perineum. Childbirth, (especially multiple), aging, and genetic factors often cause the vaginal muscles to loosen, tear, and weaken. The diameter of the vagina gets bigger and there is a loss of feeling (and pleasure). Vaginoplasty returns the vagina to “pre-pregnancy” state and recreates sexual excitement and pleasure for the woman (and the man)! Some doctors use a laser for vaginoplasty and or labiaplasty surgery. You may hear varaitions of terms such as: labiaplasty or laser labiaplasty or vaginal rejuvenation and vaginoplasty or laser vaginoplasty or vaginal tightening. The difference is that some doctors are trained to use the laser for cosmetic vaginal surgery and reconstructive vaginal surgery and some use a scalpel.
How does BOTOX® Cosmetic work?
BOTOX® Cosmetic is commonly used for smoothing of the skin around the eyes,noses and faces. It is an alternative to surgery.It reduces horizontal creases in forehead, reduces frown lines and minimizes the looks of crows' feet or smile lines around the eyes.
How skin ages and wrinkles is a complex process. There are many causes that can contribute to having such unwanted shik. The lines that appear between your brows (glabellar lines) actually result from muscle movement and the passage of time. If you're angry or annoyed, for example, you knit your brows together. Underneath your skin, your facial muscles contract, cause a pleating of the overlying skin, and then, as anyone can see, you're frowning. After years of crinkling and wrinkling, those glabellar lines start to linger longer and can become more pronounced. For women, whose faces tend to be more animated than men's, and whose skin is typically more delicate, these lines may appear exaggerated and more permanent.
Taken mainly from Dr. Valentin's clinic.
What exactly is BOTOX® Cosmetic?
BOTOX® Cosmetic is a purified protein produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacterium. It is a non-surgical, physician-administered treatment that can temporarily reduce moderate to severe frown lines between the brows. During treatment, very low doses of BOTOX® Cosmetic are administered via a few tiny injections directly into the muscles that cause those stubborn lines. The treatment is usually done in about 10 minutes, and no recovery time is needed. Results may vary.
BOTOX is introduced into the muscles and relaxes the tiny facial muscles that cause expression lines, leaving the overlying skin smooth and unwrinkled. BOTOX works on the specific areas treated. Other muscles like those used to raise the eyebrows are not affected so a natural expression is maintained and soften the looks. After the injection, it takes 2-3 days to see the dramatic changes and around 7 days to see the full effect. The treatment will last around six to nine months, the result will fade away slowly and expression lines slowly return. After 2-3 years of repeated treatment it will gradually require less frequent treatment in the future to maintain the results. Those moderate to severe frown lines between your brows form over time as the result of muscle activity. BOTOX is injected directly into the muscles between your brows. It works by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses to the injected muscles; this reduces the activity of the muscles that cause those persistent lines to form.
Victoria Beckham Admits having breast surgery
Victoria Posh Beckham may have finally admitted to having breast implants. She has denied many times when asked whether she had breast augmentation. Look at the pictures above and one can conclude that Victoria did have breast surgery to enhance her looks.
Breast Augmentation Breast Reduction (Augmentation Mammaplasty)
Big heavy breasts may cause a woman to have medical problems with posture, skeletal deformities, back and neck pain and the sorts.
Breast reduction is a surgery that removes fat, glandular tissue, and excessive skin and gives the patient a more proportionate and well rounded breasts.
Lap Band or Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery
The surgeon will make a small gastric bag in the the LAP-BAND surgery.It will restrict the amount of food the stomach will hold at any one time. The inflatable ring controls the flow of food from this smaller pouch or bag to the rest of the digestive tract. The patient will feel full with even with a small amount of food. Because of the slow emptying, the patient will continue to feel full for many hours reducing the temptation to eat between meals or large meals.
Rhinoplasty and breast augmentation and how they performed.
Rhinoplasty is a complex art. For the nose, form and function are closely interrelated.The Natural Rhinoplasty emphasizes your positive features, subtracts the negative aspects, and restores harmony in your appearance without the obvious look of surgery. Each nose is a unique sculpture
Revision Rhonoplasty:
Revision rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure designed to repair both form and function of a nose that has previously been operated on. Many people have difficult breathing from their nose or are dissatisfied with the cosmetic appearance of their nose as a result of prior nasal surgery.Revision rhinoplasty is a nose operation carried out to correct or revise an unsatisfactory outcome from a previous rhinoplasty. It is also known as secondary rhinoplasty. Occasionally there can be a third or even more surgeries. An unsatisfactory outcome occurs from 5 to 20% of rhinoplasties. There are two main reasons for performing secondary rhinoplasty. The first is purely cosmetic. A patient may be unsatisfied with all or part of a previous "nose job”. A nasal fracture may not have been reduced enough, or too much. A prominent or bulbous nasal tip may have not been addressed appropriately, or over-aggressively. The nose may looked pinched, it may look like a parrot’s beak, or like a boxer’s nose. There are many ways in which previous nose surgery may have left a nose aesthetically unappealing to a patient. The second reason is functional. The original nasal surgery may have been carried out to help with difficulties in breathing, and the outcome may have been unsatisfactory. Alternatively, the original surgery may have been performed for cosmetic reasons, but may have disrupted a normal physiologic mechanism involving the inspiration or expiration of air, making it difficult to breathe. Secondary rhinoplasty, and especially tertiary rhinoplasty, are extremely complicated procedures. This is self-evident because it is clear that even when the patient was operated upon for the first time, even when the tissues were “virginal,” and untouched the desired result could not be obtained.
How rhinoplasty is performed:
It can be performed under a general anesthetic or with local anesthetic. Incisions are made inside the nostrils (closed rhinoplasty). Sometimes, a tiny, inconspicuous incision is also made across the columella, the bit of skin that separates the nostrils (open rhinoplasty). The surgeon first separates soft tissues of the nose from the underlying structures, then reshapes the cartilage and bone. This is not a particularily painful procedure. Most people remain at home for a week. If there are external sutures, they are removed 4 to 5 days after surgery. The external cast is removed at one week. If there are internal stents, they are usually removed at one to two weeks. The periorbital brusing lasts two weeks. The swelling subsided over several months, the majority in the first one or two. Due to wound healing, there are minor and subtle shifting and settling of the nose over the first year.
In some cases, the surgeon may shape a small piece of the patient's own cartilage or bone to strengthen or change the structure of the nose. Usually the cartilage is harvested from the septum although if there isn't enough which can often occur in revision rhinoplasty, cartilage can be taken from the concha of the ear or rarely the ribs. In the rare case, again usually revision rhinoplasty, where bone is required, it is harvested from the cranium or ribs. Sometimes a synthetic implant may be used to reconstruct the nose. This is most common when agmenting the bridge of asian noses.
To improve nasal breathing function, a septoplasty may also be performed. If there is turbinate hypertrophy, an inferior turbinectomy can be done.
There are several complications that can arise in rhinoplasty, although it is usually considered to be safe and sucessful. Post operative bleeding is uncommon and often resolves without needing treatment. Infection is rare and can occassionally progress to an abscess that requires surgical drainage under general anesthetic. Adhesions, which are scars that form to bridge across the nasal cavity from the septum to the turbinates, are also rare but cause nasal obstruction to breathing and usually need to be cut away. A hole can be inadvertently made at the time of surgery in the septum, called a septal perforation. This can cause chronic nose bleeding, crusting, difficult breathing and whistling with breathing. If too much of the underlying structure of the nose (cartilage and/or bone) is removed, this can cause the overlying nasal skin to have little shape resulting in a 'polly beak' deformity. Likewise if the septum is not supported, the bridge of the nose can sink resulting in a "saddle nose" deformity. The tip of the nose can be over rotated causing the nostrils to be too visible and creating a 'miss piggy' look. If the cartilages of the tip of the nose are over resected, this can cause a pinched look to the tip. If an incision is made across the collumella (open approach rhinoplasty) there can be variable degree of numbness to the nose that may take months to resolve.
The cost of rhinoplasty varys regionally and between surgeons. If it is for functional reasons, like breathing correction, it can be covered by many health plans. For example in 2006, Ontario Canada the provincal health insurance carrier paid $480, while the cost for cosmetic rhinoplasty varied between $1000 to 10,000.
Ectropion or out-turning of eyelid
Most of the time, ectropion occurs along with the general aging changes in the skin. The lower eyelid can become looser, and eventually pull away from the eye by gravity. Bell's Palsy, or a temporary paralysis of the side of the face, can suddenly make these normal aging changes much worse, and the eye can become severely dry due to ectropion. Other conditions lead to scarring of the skin under the eyelid, which pulls the eyelid away from the eye.
Treatment of ectropion in some cases is merely to lubricate the eye as best as possible, with artificial tears during the day and ointment at night. In more severe cases, or if the cornea is at risk due to severe dryness, the eyelid out-turning can be corrected surgically under local anesthesia.
