Although I am not direclty involved in performing face transplants, I have been following the procedure’s progress over the last several years. Most recently, a group in Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston perfromed a full face transplant and the patient is now doing well and making good recovery. People that receive face transplants are …
This should be an interesting exhibit to check out. It’s the first of its kind–demonstrating beauty in all forms from modeling shoots to photos demonstrating lip and botox injections. All of these subjects are examined in “Beauty Culture,” the first fashion- and beauty-themed exhibition to be held at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los …
I performed an interesting case today on a patient with constant tearing and irritation in her eyes. On examination, she has has very lax (or loose) lower lids which do not help in her ability to blink well and drain her tears effectively. You can see this by the rounding to her eyelids in the …
This is a great article summarizing the challenges in scar treatment. I actually find silicone sheets quite effective for some early scars. In cases of hypertrophic healing (excessive scarring) or abnormally raised edges, carefully thought-out regimen of low dose steroid injections may be beneficial. Care must be taken not to inject high doses of steroids …
Do better hours for medical students and residents result in better patient care? It’s difficult to tell since no real well-controlled study has been published. Work hour limits have improved the lifestyle of junior doctors, but decreasing their fatigue seems to have had little effect on how patients actually do. Read more in NY Times.
I was part of a team of New York Oculoplastic Surgeons who identified a rare type of orbital tumor (located next to the eyeball but within the orbit itself) and the clinical findings and treatment were described in this month’s Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal. “A rare variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma is the …
