At the beginning of the month, I wrote and asked for questions for one of the country’s leading facial plastic surgeons. Dr. Halaas.

Like I said, Dr. Halaas has so generously offered to answer some of our most burning facial plastic surgery questions.
What would you like to know?
Please e-mail me your questions teri.cosenzi (at) b5media (dot) com and I will pass along the questions. Please send them to me as soon as possible, as I need to get them to her by the end of the week.

Have you had plastic surgery? Have you considered it? You are certainly not alone.
According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, over 11.5 million surgical and non-surgical procedures were performed during the year 2006 in the United States alone.
Here are the top five of each type of method, surgical and non-surgical.
Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Procedures

Liposuction – 403,684
Breast augmentation – 383,886
Eyelid surgery – 209,999
Abdominoplasty – 172,457
Breast Reduction – 145,822

Cosmetic Non-Surgical Procedures

Botox – 3.1 million
Hyaluronic Acid – such as Hylaform, Restylane – 1.5 million
Laser hair removal – 1.4 million
Microdermabrasion – 993,071
Laser Skin Resurfacing – 556,172

I will be on the lookout for the …read more

I am only 40 and don’t look half as good as Michelle Pfeiffer. She is fabulous, isn’t she?
Michelle celebrated her 49th birthday just a few months ago.

I recently heard from Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a Miami board-certified plastic surgeon who wants to warn consumers about the dangers of foreign plastic surgery.
With the recent plastic surgery sudden increase in the United States, prospective patients looking to enhance their appearance are going to great lengths to get the surgery,and many look for bargain prices.
Today, cosmetic surgery is a booming business in places like Mexico, Latin America, and Europe where their low prices are the main draw. Dr. Salzhauer is aware of the dangers of foreign cosmetic surgery versus the safer and regulated surgical environment commonly found in the …read more

No longer is plastic surgery seen as a multi-staged procedure performed by properly trained surgeons. It is now dealt with a drive-thru approach from both patients and doctors. Patients aren’t the only people scrambling for services. Many doctors are in favor of the business of plastic surgery and want a slice of the pie. This desire drives many doctors to begin the practice of plastic surgery even though they have no formal training or experience in the area. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the quality from the quackery.
Board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Christopher Saunders’ self-published new book, …read more

“Cosmetic surgery is creating a weird tribe of women who don’t look better – they just look unnatural, says American make-up guru Bobbi Brown
When I was about 20, my mum and my stepdad came into my room, sat me down and said they had something serious to tell me. I was terrified. I thought they were about to say they were getting divorced. What could be so important that they both had to sit me down to talk? “We think you’re really pretty,” they said, “but you’d be beautiful if you had your nose fixed.”
Boy do I know where …read more

“One thing is clear: “Dr. 90210″ is the show that traditional plastic surgeons love to hate. Critics including Dr. Mark L. Jewell, the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, say that Dr. Rey is a skilled surgeon, but his informal way with patients is inappropriate, even undignified, and the reality show gives viewers the impression that plastic surgery is a casual beauty treatment rather than a serious surgical procedure.
Skeptics in the medical profession question everything from Dr. Rey’s bedside manner (on a recent show he advised a patient, after giving her breast implants, to “take care of …read more