Sydney Morning Herald: How the cosmetic cowboys ran free on the wild west of social media. “Calls to Dr Lanzer’s Melbourne clinic were bounced to a call centre in the Philippines with a message that no bookings for surgical procedures will be taken at this clinic until next year. Industry regulators, for their part, confirmed they were investigating the allegations outlined in the media investigation, Cosmetic Cowboys, which included videos of doctors dancing and laughing as they performed liposuction on an unconscious patient while holding a long stainless-steel cannula.”
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CNET: Plastic surgery images and invoices leak from unsecured database
CNET: Plastic surgery images and invoices leak from unsecured database. “Thousands of images, videos and records pertaining to plastic surgery patients were left on an unsecured database where they could be viewed by anyone with the right IP address, researchers said Friday. The data included about 900,000 records, which researchers say could belong to thousands of different patients.”
EurekAlert: New study examines the accuracy of plastic surgery videos on social media
EurekAlert: New study examines the accuracy of plastic surgery videos on social media. “…YouTube has emerged as an essential platform for reaching people interested in plastic surgery. However, due to a variety of factors, such as confusing terminology, inaccurate information and unreliable sources, YouTube and social media videos in general aren’t necessarily the most reliable source of information, concludes a study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).”
South China Morning Post: Facial recognition technology in China beaten by a nose job
South China Morning Post: Facial recognition technology in China beaten by a nose job. “A young woman in eastern China found her life turned upside down when plastic surgery altered her appearance so drastically she was banned from online payment gateways and unable to sign in to work.”
The Plastic Surgery Foundation: NBIR Now Open Register Today
The Plastic Surgery Foundation: NBIR Now Open Register Today. “The Plastic Surgery Foundation has collaborated with the FDA and breast implant device manufacturers to develop the National Breast Implant Registry (NBIR) to strengthen the post-marketing surveillance infrastructure for current and future breast implant devices. The NBIR is a prospective, non-interventional, population-based, outcomes and safety surveillance registry and quality improvement initiative. The NBIR collects clinical, procedural and outcomes data at the time of operation and any subsequent reoperations for all US patients receiving breast implants. Plastic Surgeons that enter data into the NBIR will be able to compare their practice performance and outcomes to the registry aggregate.”
Ubergizmo: Selfies Are Apparently Driving Cosmetic Surgery Requests
Ubergizmo: Selfies Are Apparently Driving Cosmetic Surgery Requests. “Thanks to apps like Snapchat and Instagram introducing various filters that we can apply during our selfies to make ourselves look silly, look beautiful, and so on, it seems to have created a side-effect which is that it is apparently driving requests from teens for cosmetic surgery that will make them look as good as their selfies.”
Plastic surgeon: Patients are asking to look like their Snapchat-filtered selfies (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends: Plastic surgeon: Patients are asking to look like their Snapchat-filtered selfies. “Photoshopped magazine faces of celebrities have long been the inspiration for patients seeking out plastic surgery, but now one New York surgeon says patients are now asking to look like the Snapchat-filtered version of themselves. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dr. Matthew Shulman said that while patients have always often brought in images, they are now using Snapchat filters as examples of how they want their skin, eyes or lips to look.”