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Artefill (Bellafill) and Skin Testing

The newest more permanent injectable filler, ArteFill, for facial lines and folds is taking a throwback from history. Its use requires a pre-injection skin test due to its bovine (cow) collagen content. This is what the original collagen injections, Zyderm and Zyplast, required when they were the only injectable filler available from 1981 to 2000. Read More…

The Concept of Value in Plastic Surgery

  Cosmetic plastic surgery is very unique from traditional medicine in one significant way….it is elective. The ‘problems’ treated do not absolutely need to be treated, operating on them is elective. Therefore, one of the contributing factors used in deciding whether to go with one treatment or another is the concept of value. What result Read More…

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