Posted February 04, 2011
After much due diligence (I spent over one year of research and investigation as well as personal communications with the experts in the field, traveling around the country getting personal reports from patients), I began offering my patients Coolsculpting by Zeltiq in November 2010. My criteria for incorporating any new treatment or technology into my […]
Read MorePosted February 01, 2011
An online article from “The Chart” on CNN Health begins: “Face transplant: $349,959 A year’s supply of immune-suppressing drugs: $14,000 – $20,000 Being able to breathe, to eat and to feel better about appearing in public: priceless” After celebrating the initial success of the first face transplant in the United States, the doctors who performed the […]
Read MorePosted January 30, 2011
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me” means that people cannot hurt you with bad things they say or write about you. The childhood idiom that we have used as comfort against cruel words seems to have met it’s match on today’s Internet. At the recent Rejuvenation of the Face […]
Read MorePosted January 28, 2011
The current issue of ENT Journal reports only the second known case of a nostril being glued shut by “Super Glue”. A nine year old boy suffered the deliberate application of cyanoacrylate during a fight. When he rubbed his nose, his nostrils stuck together. The full article by James Sira, MBChB, Sandeep Uppal, FRCS (ORL-HNS), and […]
Read MorePosted January 26, 2011
Just back from the latest in facial plastic surgery after five great days of lecture, dissection labs, demonstrations, shared knowledge between world experts, hands on with the latest tools, wonderful accommodations at the fabulous 100 year old U. S. Grant Hotel (Ulysses S. slept here!), good food, and even a little touch of social life. I look […]
Read MorePosted January 16, 2011
Many plastic surgical procedures (as well as non-plastic surgery treatments) require one to two weeks of recovery. Often times, as with aggressive fractional laser skin rejuvenation procedures, patients are asked to remain at home for up to one week. Face lift recovery may take 10 to 14 days, while rhinoplasty up to one week. Recovery […]
Read MorePosted January 13, 2011
Read MorePosted January 02, 2011
Coolsculpting by Zeltiq is a non-invasive, non-surgical method of reducing unwanted fat bulges that are resistant to diet and exercise. It is very safe and effective. Dr. Persky is one of the few physicians in the world offering this state of the art treatment developed by physicians at Harvard Medical School (Mass General Hospital). The […]
Read MorePosted December 31, 2010
I received an email (I Wish You Enough) from a dear woman who I also had the privilege of working with earlier in our careers. She a most caring and excellent RN who left Southern California for the Great Northwest some years ago, much to the NW’s gain. On this New Year’s Eve, reflecting back on where I […]
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