http://cosmeticsurgerytoday.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/doctors-say-more-politicians-turning-to-plastic-surgery/

http://www.harleymedical.co.uk/media/2009/12/17/are-american-politicians-cosmetic-surgery-fans/#more-920

While plastic surgery procedures and cosmetic enhancements are generally expected for celebrities and those in the media spotlight, some doctors are finding that more politicians are saying “yes” to going under the knife.

According to Dr. Ayman Hakki of the Luxxery Cosmetic Medical Boutique in Waldorf, Maryland, it’s interesting to note that a number of politicians have already had some type of cosmetic enhancement in order to preserve their youthful looks.

Dr. Hakki points out that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had Botox injections in her forehead, Vice President Joe Biden has had hair transplants, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a partial facelift, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has had both a neck lift and a face lift. (Source:  ThePlasticSurgeryChannel.com)

Experts say that election time is “peak season” for many plastic surgery procedures, but there is still a lot of stigma around the idea that certain politicians may come across as vain instead of coming across as friendly, youthful and healthy.  In these cases, politicians do their best to hide it.

According to board certified plastic surgeon Dr. Cap Lesesne, “patients who were politicians and who had cosmetic procedures every six months instead of all at once [would] avoid arousing any suspicion.” (Source: ABoardCertifiedPlasticSurgeon.com) Still, others believe that it would be better for politicians to just admit that they are having plastic surgery.

Cosmetic procedures continue to be an attractive option for individuals that want to maintain a healthy and youthful appearance, combat the signs of aging or improve their silhouette after weight loss. Some of today’s most in-demand procedures include breast augmentation, facelift surgery, rhinoplasty (nose job surgery) and liposuction. Minimally invasive procedures that continue to be on the top list of coveted procedures in the United States include Botox injections, injectable fillers, laser skin resurfacing and cellulite treatments.

http://www.glittarazzi.com/blog/2009/12/10/modern-luxxery/#more-4059

Plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki recently celebrated the launch of his cosmetic medical boutique, Luxxery, with friends and VIPs at a benefit for Zonta International.

Jazz musician Marcus Johnson was on-hand performing hits from his new album, Poetically Justified; celebrity hairstylist David Palmer coiffed the hair of guests as they enjoyed wine from Tarara Winery; and photographer Nakeva Corothers took lots of great pics (check them out, after the jump).

Also, at the event, Dr. Hakki announced the opening of Luxxery’s second location in downtown Washington, D.C., in 2010. (We can’t wait!)

http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/breaking_ground/2009/12/plastic_surgeon_to_open_dc_office.html

The Waldorf location is holding an invite-only party on Dec. 5, with jazz musician Marcus Johnson and hair stylist David Palmer. Guests can get anti-aging tips and answers to questions about new cosmetic surgery trends. 

AS SEEN IN YOURHEALTH MAGAZINE:

What happened to your pouty lips? Is that a sign of an aging face?

Yes, say the experts. 

Here are the telltale signs of an aging mouth, and they happen simultaneously:

• Your upper lip lengthens and flattens

• Your lower lip loses volume and develops a horizontal groove

• The corners of your mouth droop

• Your lip line, the white roll at the border of your lips thins and rolls in

• Your “nasolabial folds” , between your checks and your upper lip deepen and create parenthetic like furrows

• Your “marionette folds”, at the lower corners of your mouth turn down and create a bitter like look

A facelift can correct the laxity of your neck and cheeks. 

A browlift can correct the laxity of your midbrow. 

Eyelid surgery can reverse the process. Fat transfer into your face can compensate for the slowly disappearing fat all over your face and around your mouth. 

But if your mouth looks old, you would still look old in spite of all your efforts.

Few procedures in the world of contemporary cosmetic surgery have enjoyed such popularity as lip augmentation. Defining and accentuating the lips in an aging mouth or simply creating voluptuous lips in a youthful mouth is and has been all the rage since the 1990’s. 

Fuller lips are associated with youth, and today’s fuller lips are created with injections directly into the lips. The techniques to doing so vary, but what remains constant is your search for a physician with an understanding of your lip anatomy and the ability to maintain the natural proportions of your lips. The top choices for lip augmentation and rejuvenation of the aging mouth by way of direct injections into the lips are either autologous fat transfer (fat harvested from your own body) or the more popular injectable fillers such as hyaluronic acids.

Involving little or practically no downtime hyaluronic acids such as Restylane, Juvederm and Prevelle Silk (contains lidocaine to reduce pain) are the top choices for lip filling. A commonly used approach is combining some of the mentioned fillers for best results. Although hyaluronic acids tend to have a less permanent result, the so called permanent fillers (silicone oil, implants) are not a good option. A permanent filler in a constantly changing face and a mobile mouth will look good today and disastrous tomorrow.

What else should you consider for your “lip service”? If your mouth is aging, and you are not ready for surgery, there is almost no way out of fillers. Keep in mind that when you are looking at an aging mouth, you are also looking at an aging neck and chin and you may need a facelift. If on the other hand you are younger and simply want an Angelina Jolie like pout, don’t get filler-happy and over do it because lip injections is not a one-size-fits-all procedure and sausage like overfilled lips become a joke.

So what’s a girl to do?

Do your research, be a well informed patient, set realistic expectations and most importantly, choose your experts wisely and then..Be on your way to pouty lips.

Celebrity Do’s anD Don’ts

A common misconception in today’s world of plastic surgery is that artificial fillers such as Juvéderm, Restylane, Radiesse, and Evolence are the best way to immediately rejuvenate the face without going under the knife. While this may be true in smaller doses, overtime the results create a plastic, plumped, and overdone look.While celebrities and Hollywood starlets have abused and over-used artificial fillers, American icon Madonna took all the right anti-aging steps and looks fantastic. Though she doesn’t admit it, her high cheekbones and plump lips are probably the result of an under-appreciated but cutting-edge procedure called Adipose Accentuation. At age 50, the untrained eye would never detect her youthful appearance is the result of plastic surgery. Adipose Accentuation can be best described as an anti-aging filler that shifts fullness from one area to another using the patient’s own organic and natural fat. Commonly practiced in the face or buttock region, This is the ideal filler and the latest trend in organic anti-aging procedures. For plastic surgery to be transcendent, three things must occur: the result must be less plastic and more natural, the intervention must be minimal with fewer incisions, and the result must be long lasting. During Adipose Accentuation, a portion of the fat removed from one part of the body is reintroduced to a different site. Amazingly, advances in modern science have shown that this also transfers stem cells into those areas, which mimic cells they come into contact with and actually create new fat, bone, and skin cells. As a result, the fullness of the cheeks, lips, or buttock region is brought back to its youthful appearance naturally. The fat transfer results not only in fullness, but rejuvenation of the skin on a cellular and microscopic level.

Luxxery Cosmetic Medical Boutique:

Liposuction 101 

Saddle bags, muffin tops, love handles, banana rolls, meet liposuc-tion.  But, what technique should you choose?  Liposuction, Tumescent Liposuction, Vaser Lipo System, Li-podissolve™, Smartlipo™, etc... Read along and earn a few credit hours as you embark on the road to eliminating bulging fat.

Liposuction

Traditional liposuction is a surgi-cal procedure invented in 1974 that involves anesthesia, an incision, a few hours to perform and several days for recovery. Most importantly, liposuc-tion is best performed by a board certified plastic surgeon and not your dermatologist or your gynecologist. Liposuction is the actual physical removal of fat allowing for dramatic reduction in both circumference and body contouring. Your surgeon in-serts a metal tube, called a cannula, through an incision in the skin and into the fatty area. As your surgeon suctions, the unwanted fat is led to a container attached to a suction pump. Liposuction remains until today the gold standard to shrink specific areas of the body that do not respond to overall reduction in body weight. Re-sults of traditional liposuction, when performed on the ideal patient, far out way any other technique.

Tumescent Liposuction

Liposuction was revolutionized in 1985 with the tumescent technique. Tumescent liposuction involves in-jecting a fluid, mostly a mixture of lidocaine, saline and epinephrine, to expand the fat compartment before cannula insertion. This technique makes suction easier and more effec-tive, but mainly contributing to less bleeding and bruising and eliminating the need for general anesthesia.

Ultrasound & Laser 

Assisted Liposuction

Vaser Lipo System, Lipodissolve™, Smartlipo™, Ultra-Sculpt, Pro-Lipo, Lipolite, etc… are all new systems that include cannulas that emit either ultrasound waves or laser wavelengths. The purpose is to further liquefy fat prior to removal. Keeping in mind that best results are achieved when the liquefied fat is suctioned out, the purported benefits to the patient are that fat is easier to remove with less swelling and bruising. While early ultrasound and laser assisted systems led to some side effects such as skin burns and nerve damage, I found that the third generation devices addressed these side effects. These systems re-quire multiple treatments performed within weeks or sometimes once a week, they can be thought of as popu-lar adjuncts to traditional liposuction of post traditional liposuction. Both ultrasound and laser assisted liposuc-tion can be combined.

The gap between the dramatic results of liposuction and the subtle results of the noninvasive, “skin smoothing” ultrasound or laser as-sisted liposuction gets even wider when the added cost of these new systems is considered. From a cost perspective to the patient, the multiple sessions required with the noninvasive approach can add up to the cost of one traditional liposuction.

If you are overweight, you need a lifestyle change and not liposuction regardless of the tech-nique used to perform the liposuc-tion. You may benefit from combo techniques such as liposuction and abdominoplasty (tummy-tuck) if you have excessively loose skin. If you are not overweight but have those unattractive lumps around your hips, thighs or buttocks then liposuction is just what the doctor ordered.

So what’s a patient to do? Do your research, be a well-informed patient, set realistic expectations and most importantly choose your experts wisely and then, be on your way to perfect curves. 

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