Plastic Surgery

A man and woman are in custody today for allegedly performing numerous backroom surgeries including tummy tucks and facelifts that left at least one woman disfigured.Ha Nguyen, 48, and Zbigniew Makowski, 62, were arrested Wednesday following an investigation by the Medical Board of California that was spurred by the woman's ordeal.The woman contacted the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Welfare Fraud Division who then contacted the medical board."She had scars across both of her eyebrows and under her lip," Candis Cohen, spokesw .... More »

It's a "new generation" facelift for a new generation and only a handful of plastic surgeons on Long Island have been trained to perform this new MACS Lift procedure. Vincent DiGregorio, MD, is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with more than 25-years of experience in the field. Dr. DiGregorio will be sharing his knowledge and expertise in plastic surgery in a free informational lecture for women and men on Wednesday, September 26th at his Garden City office.Dr. DiGregorio is a senior partner at the internationally-regarded Long Islan .... More »

The Fond du Lac Reporter is looking for your stories and views on plastic surgery.While such procedures might be common in areas like Los Angeles and Miami, we want to know what area woman think about having plastic surgery done.Have you considered or undergone plastic surgery? Do you think women should age "gracefully" or should it be their right to change how they look through a cosmetic procedure?Please e-mail Amie Jo Schaenzer at ajschaenzer@fdlreporter.com or call at (920) 922-4606, ext. 289. .... More »

BY NATASHA SINGERIt was the pale green-and-pink-striped bikini that did it.When Sandra Cornier, a mother of two from Brooklyn, looked at a recent photo of herself taken at Manhattan Beach, N.Y., she didn't like what she saw. She had been nursing her son for 11 months, and now she could barely fill out the bathing suit top.She made a decision: She would have breast implant surgery, and right away, because she wanted to be cozy in her favorite bikini by the end of the summer. She did not have the cash available, but she was willing to b .... More »

By Grant McArthurAUSTRALIAN plastic surgeons are having to repair botched operations and shattered lives because of the boom in cut-price Asian cosmetic surgery.Melbourne plastic surgeons this week told the Herald Sun of 57 bungled boob jobs, facelifts, liposuction and other overseas procedures they have fixed for unhappy medical tourists in the past three years.But as the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons warns those numbers are just the tip of the iceberg, Australian medical travel companies fuelling the boom say their offshore .... More »

Women who opt to have plastic surgery often feel pressurised by their partners, research has revealed.Around 690,000 women will go under the knife this year, more than three times as many as in 2001.While a quarter of British patients said their decision was influenced by snide comments or concerns that they had become less attractive to their partners, all their U.S. counterparts claimed to have had the work done purely to please themselves.The study - published in the journal Body & Society - also found that British women were more .... More »

British actress JOELY RICHARDSON is going gay for the upcoming season of hit TV plastic surgery drama NIP/TUCK - as the lover of real-life lesbian PORTIA DE ROSSI. The 101 Dalmatians star will lock lips with former Ally MCBeal regular De Rossi after discovering her character, Julia MCNamara, prefers women to men. And the two actresses will be getting romantic in pretty impressive surroundings, according to America's TV Guide magazine - producers are recreating a suite at swanky Los Angeles hotel the Chateau Marmont on the set, as the .... More »

BEIJING: Chinese censors have shut down a string of reality television shows broadcasting plastic surgery on women getting a face lift at the hands of specialized doctors across several television channels in South China. As with plastic surgery, which has won thousands of ardents in the increasing prosperous regions of South China, the television show also proved to be a superhit until the censors cut it off late last week.The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, which is the regulator to ensure quality programming, fe .... More »

Cosmetic surgery moves out of the shadows for many.By Claudia GryvatzDid she or didn't she? We've all engaged in a snark-fest at one time or another, trying to guess whether a certain film or television star has had "work" done. And while some, such as Kathy Griffin, Joan Rivers and Patricia Heaton, have been public about their cosmetic surgeries, the majority opt to keep such procedures secret. After all, our celebrities tend to have a vested interest in maintaining certain physical illusions.But the rich and famous are not the only .... More »

Jenny AnchondoIn our continuing series "Beyond the Blade, Beneath the Surface" we look into the phenomenon of men seeking plastic surgery.Men are stripping fat from their bodies, adding fat to their faces, nipping and tucking at a rapid pace.Nine percent of all plastic surgery patients in 2006 were men, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.Tony Gebhardt is one of those men. He said his facelift is helping him in the business world and now he is among the 1.1 million American men who went under the knife last year.Tony .... More »

Begging for breast implants may actually workDENVER --A new website offers women the chance at free breast implants: post your name, picture and then men can start talking with you...every message they send gets you closer to a new look. At first glance my free implants dot com might raise some eyebrows and certainly some questions. Greely native Lee Wendorff has been on the site for a couple of weeks:"Does it make sense that men would give money to a girl that they have never met to have breast implants? Yes, I don't know how I ratio .... More »

By Natasha SingerNEW YORK: It was the pale green and pink striped bikini that did it.When Sandra Cornier, a mother of two from Brooklyn, New York, looked at a recent photo of herself taken at the beach, she was not pleased with what she saw. She had been nursing her son for 11 months, and now she could barely fill out her bathing suit top.She made a decision: She would have breast implant surgery, and right away, because she wanted to be cozy in her favorite bikini by the end of the summer. She did not have the cash available, but she .... More »

LondonTwo-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster says she will never opt for plastic surgery because she wants people to compliment her on her less than perfect features than a less than perfect surgery.Foster is 44 years old and a mother of two. She is keen to always remain proud of her features, reports contactmusic.comShe said: 'It's not my thing. I don't have anything against it for other people. Whatever they want to do, I'm fine with it. For me, it's really a self-image thing.'Like, I'd rather have somebody go, 'Wow, that girl has a bad .... More »

By NATASHA SINGERIT was the pale green and pink striped bikini that did it.When Sandra Cornier, a mother of two from Brooklyn, looked at a recent photo of herself taken at Manhattan Beach, N.Y., she didn't like what she saw. She had been nursing her son for 11 months, and now she could barely fill out the bathing suit top.She made a decision: She would have breast implant surgery, and right away, because she wanted to be cozy in her favorite bikini by the end of the summer. She did not have the cash available, but she was willing to b .... More »

By TAMMY JOYNERMaking eye contact and looking fit and rested is important when you're selling cars and trucks, says industry veteran Gary Griffin."When you go in front of people, you don't want to look worn out," says Griffin, fleet manager at Steve Rayman Chevrolet in Smyrna.Three days after Christmas last year, Griffin, 57, underwent cosmetic eyelid surgery. Eight months earlier, he had liposuction around his waist to get a firmer look.Cosmetic surgery was once the domain of Hollywood starlets and Park Avenue socialites, but now Ame .... More »