If the results of the world’s first partial face transplant is any indication, the British team that is now in the middle of preparations for the world’s first full facial transplant is on the right track.

BBC News gives us the goods:

The recipient of the first partial face transplant has recovered so well she can go out without people noticing her scars, her surgeon has said.

Isabelle Dinoire, from Amiens, France, received the graft from a brain-dead donor after being mauled by her dog.

One year on, her surgeon Bernard Devauchelle said she continued to make excellent progress and that he had plans to carry out more operations.

Through the years, study now, pay later or fly now, pay later schemes have proven to be an effective marketing tool for many businesses.

Apparently, some enterprising cosmetic surgery-related businesses in Australia are taking this _____ now, pay later ploy a bit too far.

According to The Age:

A new promotion encouraging people to get nip-and-tuck cosmetic surgery now and pay later has been slammed by plastic surgeons as a "new low".

Hundreds of homes have been mail-dropped a 16-page pamphlet promoting breast enlargements, nose jobs and liposuction, describing them as "generally simple day procedures".

We’ve always thought of middle age as that stage in our lives when we feel we are neither young or old. In years, middle age is considered to be somewhere between 40 and 60.

But a recent survey by global research group AC Nielsen has revealed that people’s perceptions about middle age are changing. A significant percentage of the poll’s respondents believe their sixties are the new middle age because of cosmetic surgery and other factors. Reuters has more:

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and some TiVo issues, this week’s Nip/Tuck summary is late as you have probably figure out. I just wanted to write a quick blurb about two huge plot developments that came into play in this past Tuesday’s episode, “Diana Lubey.”

First, Christian and Michelle are engaged. He proposed to her over a romantic dinner and she, being the smart one that she is, suggested they live together first seeing as how they were technically a fairly new couple. She insisted Christian put his beloved apartment on the market – there were ghosts of too many women haunting the Miami beachfront condo. Christian is having doubts about his decision – everywhere he looks in the apartment he sees the past women in his life, and they are all telling him how he will never make marriage material. He is determined though, sells his apartment, and starts the beginning of his life with Michelle.

This episode is a blend of present day and flashback memories – however, present day is considered to be in 2026 and the flashback is considered to be 2006. The episode starts with Conor McNamara, age 20, sitting in his therapist’s office talking about his upcoming hand surgery. He’s decided, finally, to have the surgery done on his right hand because he wants to be a surgeon someday like his father. He says that his mother always told him that he should accept his disability, and that people would love him for being him – but he never has accepted the disability and wants to just shake someone’s hand like everyone else. This conversation with the therapist reveals that his parents are no longer together – which, we all feared might be what was happening with this episode since Joely Fisher announced she was leaving the show. Conor wants to know the real reason for his parents split – it just doesn’t make sense to him why two people who had been together for so long would choose to separate with an infant son. The therapist asks if Conor had any memories of the split – he didn’t, but tried to extract what he could from his siblings. Matt wasn’t around so much, but Annie told him what she remembered.

If Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield were alive and gaiting today they are rightfully among the eight percent – only, of women who actually have hourglass figure -- that well-proportioned body shape where bust and hip measurements are nearly equal along with a narrow waist, and then put on some shapely legs.

But a recent study reveals that most fashion designers and clothing manufacturers continue to create clothes intended for a fraction of 'womanity'.

All along, nobody is seem minding; not when a little of bulging fat is permissible. Even, some claustrophobic shopaholics endure their stays in fitting rooms, just for the snug.

Yada, yada, yada -- as if this is something utterly new.

Okay, this is all about men being tall and women being slim. Researchers from the University of Essex in London now are ‘officially’ saying (so we are talking about measured data here) that when it comes to love, or rather attraction, physical dimensions really does matter.

(Short men and fat women are in for some beating – not again!)

At least in speed-dating sessions, the study found that for every inch taller a man is than his "rivals," the number of women who want to meet him again increases by five percent.

With the FDA finally lifting a 14-year ban on silicon breast implants in the United States, makers of the devices have expressed optimism that a sales boom will soon follow. And more implants sold mean more business for cosmetic surgeons as well.

The Los Angeles Times gives us the details:

Any surge in silicone implants would be good news for surgeons such as Steven Teitelbaum, who met more than half a dozen patients considering breast surgery early this week in his sleek Santa Monica office filled with photos of naked women and still lifes of fruit. Teitelbaum, who said his patient logs were already pretty full, said he believed that silicone was clearly the better choice for most women.

A good Samaritan of a cosmetic surgeon has recently given a 10-year old boy from Christchurch, New Zealand, a new nose. Alex Summers, who was born with a rare type of birthmark called an arteriovenous malformation, had to endure four operations conducted by plastic surgeon Charles Davis, but was happy with the results. Stuff has more:

Last week, in the last of four operations in Wellington, the final stage of his nose reconstruction was completed by plastic surgeon Charles Davis.

The process involved taking skin from Alex's thigh to create the nose lining, cartilage from his ear for the bony structure, and skin tissue from his forehead moulded to match the other side of his nose.

Tom Jones is one of the few male celebrities who have openly admitted to getting cosmetic work done—a lot of it, in fact, that his plastic surgeon warned him that any more operations and his face will collapse.

Apparently, he has heeded that piece of advice. A Daily Mail report features a Tom Jones looking as old as he is.

But with heavily wrinkled eyes and deep facial crevices, it seems that 40 years of plastic surgery have taken their toll on the Welsh star.