Scott Spear, MD: The Surgeon Who Saved One Million Nipples (and Counting)
The October 2015 cover story features Scott Spear, MD, an early champion of nipple-sparing mastectomy.
The October 2015 cover story features Scott Spear, MD, an early champion of nipple-sparing mastectomy.
California legislators will again consider a bill to ban cosmetic surgery on small children born with atypical genitalia under a bill introduced Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is leading the charge to educate members of Congress on the importance of the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, which would require all group and individual health plans to cover medically necessary services related to a patient's anomaly or birth defect.
This plastic surgeon came up with an innovative reconstruction technique that allows breast cancer survivors to forgo implants without going flat—all within the same surgery as their mastectomy. Read more at health.com.
Read MoreWomen who receive mastectomy and reconstructive surgery as part of breast cancer treatment may face the risk of developing persistent use of opioids and sedative-hypnotic drugs, according to data presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 8-11.
Read MoreCleft organization Smile Train announces the Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative in partnership with Lifebox, a global nonprofit organization that aims to make surgery safer in low-resource settings.
Read MoreDoctors have used it for over a century to support congenital abnormalities or following serious accidents, but it has become the newest innovation in severe plastic surgery today, according to Science Times.
Read MoreBioAesthetics Corporation announces a clinical study of its nipple reconstruction graft will be performed at Stanford Medicine beginning in 2021.
Read MoreReconstructing the nipple-areola complex completes the sense of restoration that helps some women put cancer behind them, according to plastic surgeon and breast reconstruction specialist Dr. Constance Chen
Read MoreA new documentary follows Dr. Jess Ting in his work at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, The New York Times reports.
Read MoreCleft organization Smile Train will take on the operations of Simulare Medical, a developer of cleft surgery simulators, it announces.
Read MoreIn addition to live surgeries, master sessions with Q&A, led by international cosmetic surgery specialists, will focus on breast and body surgery, hair restoration, cosmetic gynecology, and more.
Read MoreA consultant physician and dermatologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. Folakemi Cole-Adeife, tells The Punch that many survivors of Noma disease will require plastic and maxillo-facial surgery to enable them to regain the functions of their mouth and jaw.
Read MoreModern reconstructive surgery owes a huge debt to a group of wounded warriors in World War II who called themselves the Guinea Pig Club. Watch the historical video at Yahoo.com.
Read MoreWhen caught early, the prognosis for breast cancer is typically very good — but Black women are often diagnosed at a younger age, at a later stage, and with more aggressive tumors, according to PopSugar.
Read MorePlastic surgeon and breast reconstruction specialist Dr Constance Chen offers tips for treating congenital breast deformities.
Read MoreTop plastic surgeons from around the country tell NewBeauty what procedures they’re doing the most of on the “My So-Called Life” generation.
Read MoreThe before-and-after photos of 33-year-old Cynthia Anne appear on radio.com.
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