1899 Broadway Magazine, full of Victorian glamour and interesting stories; what a cool find. It also has an entire article on plastic surgery, with some impressive photos. The last photo of the girl “with a man’s nose” (🙄🤦🏻♂️) is still quite “sus” to me, especially the size of that mole.
You can either work hard to become good at what you do or strive to be good at hiding how mediocre you are.
Humans won’t have to fight AI because they’ll merge with it — witness the birth of the new specialty of Bionic Neuroprosthetic Surgery.
This patient underwent total facial rejuvenation with a combined approach; she’s 3 months post operative here. We employed an endoscopically-assisted, bi-planar trichophytic brow lift along with a bi-lamellar High-SMAS lift, platysmal plication, and full face fractional CO2 laser skin resurfacing.
Interpolated paramedian forehead flap 👍
In today’s history: Justinus Kerner (1786-1862), a German physician credited with the discovery of botulinum toxin. Kerner subjected himself to botulinum – which he ingested orally – risking exposure to tens of thousands of Botox units and near-certain death. (For reference, frown line dose is 20u)
Wow, just beautiful
Today we performed reconstructive surgery on a nasal tip defect incurred from skin cancer removal. The technique employed has existed for thousands of years essentially unchanged. It was first published in the western literature in 1794, in the "Gentleman's Magazine". The patient is doing very well.