Plastic Surgery News

Tina Turner looks amazingly good for a 68-year-old woman. The rock n’ roll icon’s good looks just keep on rockin’, which other speculate to be the result of some plastic surgery makeovers.

The multi-awarded singer was recently seen performing live with Beyonce Knowles. And the difference in age and looks was just too glaring to ignore. Beyonce, who is decades younger than Tina, looks as though she had gone under the knife several times compared to her older dance partner.

Nobody knows for sure if Tina Turner has had work on her face and body. One thing is for sure though. She looks really amazing with age and if ever she has had plastic surgery in the past, it was done so well that the results look very natural.

There has been a huge increase of botched plastic surgery patients who have who are found to have imaginary deformities caused by body image disorders according to many psychiatrists.

Body dysmorphia – an obsession with appearance that makes sufferers turn to excessive plastic surgery because of perceived defects – have been observed in a growing number of patients aged 13 to 70.

The patients often manifest excessive worry over their facial features, breasts, body hair, and perceived genital deformities. And 90% of them want plastic surgery, and about 40 percent already went under the knife.

British actress Julie Walters admits that she likes fantasizing about having a nip or tuck, but just doesn’t have the courage to actually do it.

The star of Mamma Mia! expressed her sentiments to the press concerning plastic surgery. While she seems to be not against plastic surgery, the actress confessed that she has promised herself no to take that road.

Julie Walters is letting the world know that she hasn’t anything done yet on her face and body.

“I think I would let myself down if I had anything done. I understand why people do it, though,” Walters told The Mirror. “There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t think ‘If I just did that’, ‘just a little…’”

Veteran Hollywood actress Meryl Streep is quite surprised in a bad way with the way things are going in Hollywood especially on the issue of men going under the knife. According to WENN, the actress has criticized the trend of having more and more men getting plastic surgery for enhancing their appearance. The actress insisted that everyone should quit the habit and accept their age.

It is now an accepted fact that men are opening up to the call of beauty through surgery. But it seems that Meryl Streep is still not very open to the idea of having those alpha males swallow their pride by asking for a little outside help on their wrinkles and other imperfections.

There is a quick-fix procedure suited for men who are complaining about their large man breasts - a condition known as gynecomastia.

Plastic surgery experts recently attended the Health Asia 2008 Exhibition and Conference on Cosmetic Surgery at the Karachi Expo Centre. In here, discussions about the latest achievements in cosmetic surgery have been discussed and highlighted.

One of the highlights of the conference is the discussion of the methods in order to address the medical anomaly known as gynecomastia. Breast reduction surgery is mainly the procedure used to deal with this issue. And plastic surgeons are still on the process of finding more convenient ways to address this, especially on techniques that require lesser downtime for the patient. The cosmetic procedures for gynecomastia take one or two hours and can be performed under local or general anesthesia.

Dr. Bharat Shah, a board-certified plastic surgeon at St. John’s Clinic shares the highlights discussed in the recently held meeting of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons in San Diego. In the conference, plastic surgeons from around the country and the world, met to share technologies and experiences.

When asked about the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures for men, Shah answered that men are more open to procedures that offer natural results with minimal downtime. Some of these common procedures are Botox, mini-facelifts, laser skin resurfacing, hair replacement, and liposuction.

A shocking global survey reveals that almost half of the women around the world would change their looks if they could. Now, that suggests plastic surgery is really a global trend. On the darker side, this goes to show that women are really so drawn to the concept of getting great looks in order to be successful in life.

Synovate reports that 40% of the women surveyed would like to change their looks if they had the money.

The survey was conducted by asking a sample of over 7,000 people from various countries such as Brazil, Bulgaria, Korea, Spain, South Africa, and the United States about how they defined beauty. The purpose of the research was to find out where people from different cultures see themselves on the beauty scale, and whether they would change anything about their looks.

Dr. Anthony Griffin is a plastic surgeon based in Beverly Hills. He is one of the celebrity plastic surgeons who did makeovers on TV through the Extreme Makeover show on ABC. He recalls that in 2005, a new plastic surgery client needed to wait for about two years for an appointment with him. However, today, things have started to change.

Griffin observed that his waiting list have become shorter, now averaging three months. And most of his clients are Russian and British. Where did the American clients go?

Griffin concluded that the bad economy must have been causing this decrease. He said, "I used to have ballplayers' wives coming in - they did not even look at what we charged.” However, that is already a thing of the past.

It is quite ironic to note that a person needs to wait for as long as 31 hours in order to get an emergency medical attention. Such is the case of the patients at Hutt Hospital according to a new research. Not only that; as if waiting is not enough agony, patients even risk being bumped off a waiting list if a more urgent case comes in.

A person by the name of David Kendall reportedly shattered his finger bone into four pieces and absolutely need an immediate medical attention. After fasting all day for the operation, he was told that he had been bumped off the list.

"I felt a bit of a forgery actually, because it was just a finger, but I had to use a hospital bed for 24 hours or more, that was unnecessary," says Kendall.

Close Up TV News has recognized the Plastic Surgery Associates of New York for their unwavering commitment to give excellent plastic surgery care to their clients.

The NY Plastic Surgery Associates offers a number of plastic surgery procedures to its local and international clients. This includes liposuction, body lifts, and facial surgeries such as facelift, brow lifts, rhinoplasty and other minimally invasive procedures such as Botox, injectibles, and laser treatments.

The secret of the firm’s success might be attributed to the way the surgeons namely, Aloysius Smith, MD, Alain Polynice, MD, and Allison Pontius, spend quality time discussing their patients’ concerns with respect to the services they offer.