Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

Cynthia, Kiyoko, me and Rire

Well its been a while since I have been writing on my blog because I have been insanely busy! With plastic surgery–unfortunately NO –February is the worse month for Plastic Surgeons in Hawaii. For plastic surgery its a slow month !

Maybe elsewhere I do not know. I have been busy with my web company. I have received more request for work than I thought possible for web sites and the like. Looks like AiMiYo LTd will be a success. In fact its overwhelming as we get our staff built up. As for me,  I over see the company and make sure its on the right track, that people are doing their jobs and every customer is happy.  Its creative and we try to maintain the highest standards, believe me when I say there are some shadowy companies out there. We are preparing report to place on our company web site  comparing what we have found.

Well enough about business for now, its my birthday, I am in my  mid fifties  , I did not think I would ever be this old. Yet here I am old guy–except I don’t feel like an old guy. Then I compare my self to other “old guys” my age and I don’t feel so bad. This may be due to a life time of surfing and my kick boxing to some degree. Well what should I do,  re evaluate my life and give a reflection to the past and vision to the future. Ok that took a full 24 seconds to review, now its time for action. I guess I could say there is nothing I would change.

Well what happens in my life today on birthday?  Part of my staff is here around me and they gave me a nice birthday cake , a cheesecake. I had a lot of people on face book wish me a happy birthday from around the world. I was surprised at the number of emails I received from close friends and colleagues. I even received one of those e-cards which are easy to do and require little effort,  but at least it was nice thought.  I enjoy the emails from old friends. I received an email from  a lady I have not spoken to in well over twenty five years. She called me my child hood nickname. She wrote about stories from her memory of those days. Interesting story there were 5 of us who all hung around in high school,  all boys, all surfers and all somewhat trouble makers. Not really bad boys, but borderline. Well this lady was dating one of the gang of 5 and  then married another of the gang of 5 not the original one. It was not a steal your girlfriend thing at all,  it just happened that way  Although stealing girlfriends was a fun sport at one time this was not the case.  I was just suprised and delighted to hear from her and cannot wait  to hear how more than 25 years has passed for her and people we knew then. She has the inside scoop.

My good friends on face book like Guillaume, Nancy Law, Latrenta Barrett, Hyenwon Kang and others all had to weigh in wish me a happy birthday ….or remind me how old I am. It was nice to hear from them and I even received a tweet or two, which is what wired people like me get–tweets as in twitter land, no phone calls –geeks don’t use the phone except for text messages and tweets. This is the law of geeks or otaku’s like myself.

Speaking of birthdays I feel lucky today. In that I did not die last night. My friends next door to where we live had a famous Japanese sushi chef fly in from Tokyo the day before my birthday. He brought with him off the plane a famous delicacy in Japan which many know as the puffer fish and they call” Fugu”. This fish reportedly kills many Japanese each year ( up to 30 some years) when they eat the wrong part which is poison. ” I want to eat Fugu but I dont want to die” is what I say. So the night before my birthday I ate it and did not die so I think this is good sign of my year??

Fugu Poisonous Fish from Japan

The fish plate shown to left is filled with Fugu made by the sushi chef. He has a special license to cut this up and serve it.

We ate this fish and the only American there beside myself first declined,  then he saw that I ate it and he said “Well I will try it’” . He told me since I was a doctor he felt safe eating it. What a joke…if he only knew the things I have eaten in the past and I honestly must say I have no idea what I was doing or who this “famous sushi chef ” was. With my limited knowledge this chef might as well been Jack The Ripper Japanese Version and he was ready to poison us all just for fun.

The other famous guy there was a famous “Japanese Elvis Presely” he was in his later years,  but from what I understood he was very famous in his twenties for his elvis.  He is shown below eating fugu too. Well Elvis lives !! Well he actually in his early years dressed as Elvis and was very famous in Japan apparently.

Elvis Lives After Fugu !!

Pianist/Opera Singer a Fugu Death Party

Well even though I did not die from Fugu poisoning the night before my birthday,  I still could face some bad luck I suppose. Yet the good luck is that my staff remembered my birthday. I am not sure if they did so because they are kind or it was because they want to make me more miserable?

Interesting there was a Japanese Singer and Pianist for entertainment as well. So we ate the death fish and listen to music while sipping saki , not  bad way to go for a neigborhood party ne.

Today I will go surfing as all things start in the water for Pisces such as myself so I will renew my spirit there as I have been overworked lately and then enjoy a nice dinner with my wife who asked me earlier today. I think I will eat some  Italian food which is my favorite. The most deadly thing about Italian food is choking on  a meatball I suppose.

Below is some assorted photos of me and I my staff on my birthday which was we enjoyed and excellent cheese cake !!

What me have Jet Lag?

When you travel as much as I do you soon learn to over come jet lag as quickly as possible. Living in Hawaii there is no such thing as a three hour plane ride to somewhere. There is a twenty minute, a forty minute and ninty minute plane ride to the other Hawaiian Islands , but the next closest place is 5 hours plus I think.

Jet lag for most of trips is problem. China, Amsterdam, Bangkok Thailand, Tokyo Japan are the places I have been in the last 6 months several times to some of them. Amsterdam is twenty hours away, Tokyo is seven hours and Bangkok is twelve hours of flight time away. This is a lot of time and the air and plenty of time to develop jet lag.

Jet lag scientist define as the disturbance of circadian rhythm due to time zone changes from jet travel. Yes that about sums it up but I think of it as more of “dead man walking” for a few days after a trip. That means it feels like 8am when its actually midnite or you wake up at 4 am and you cant sleep again until noon when you feel like you will pass out.

So I thought of ten thinks one can do which I tried this trip from my condo in Bangkok.

1. Watch movies , the same one 47 times. In this case I was in Japan Airline and I watched GI-Joes over and over. This will make you go into a trance and you will actually feel rested although you will recite lines from the movie over and over again instead of orginal speech.

2. When your in a town like Tokyo make sure you stay on the same time zone that is from the town you left from. So when its 2 pm in one place make sure you are up in the other place even though it may be 3 am. Act like everyone in the new town is off not you.

3.  Dont sleep the entire time and when you get back sleep for 3 days straight and you will not feel abnormal.

4.  Sleep the entire time you are gone and you feel well rested when you get back.

5. Dont travel and stay home !

Well these are the best ways I can come up with to over come jet lag. Number 5 is a great way, unfortunately I cannot do that and will be traveling more this  year with two business ventures launched which will take some time away from Hawaii.  The Bangkok condo business takes some time and the Hong Kong based web company AiMiYo International takes a bit as well. With AiMiYo even though my web team works across the internet from home I get to go to meetings with clients etc. So ….who is more lucky I dont know.

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From Right to Left Dr. Parsa, Dr. Terino, Dr. Pasquale

The Pan Pacific Surgical Meeting which is held biannually here in Honolulu Hawaii is well under way. The speakers are excellent consisting of local Plastic Surgeons and Surgeons from around the world. High lights of the conference range from Poetry Readings by Dr. Parsa in his native Farsi , to a poem written by Dr. Robert Flower in his absentia. Lectures were given by local surgeons as well international experts.

The lectures range from breast reconstruction techniques to facial implant surgery for cosmetic surgery. The attendance is good and people seem to enjoy meeting with old and new fellow surgeons. Last night we attended a talk sponsored by LifeCell and had dinner at local Japanese restaurant. This was a nice affair and the food was very good.

I always like these meetings as they are a time for plastic surgeons to share some common bonds and learn from each other. The field can be very competitive which is a good thing becuase it brings out the best for the public I believe. If we are all trying to do better than the next guy,  then the public has the best of our efforts.

The fellow on my right is another Italian , Dr. Terino who has made a name for himself in facial implants. I was looking at his slides today and he has some impressive results. I have seen his books as well,  but something about him showing his slides in person makes it more believable. He is also a very good friend of Dr. Robert Flowers now retired who was  one of my mentors to some degree, These two are some of the greats of cosmetic plastic surgery along with Dr. Parsa.

Well I am not of the traditional academic bend like  Dr. Flowers, Terino and Parsa all who write for journals and produce some very good research papers. I am more of a practical guy with good technique and can operate my self out of anything, so what I lack in academic prowess I think I make up in skill and hands on. Typical town verses gown type thinking perhaps.

I do have my academic time , teach some practical courses like facial nerve and face lifting in China, Buttock Augmentation in Korea, and other lectures in Japan invented some surgical instruments and taught some courses on the mainland USA. I have as well as lectured here in Hawaii as we all have. I also bring some younger surgeons in my office to show them the more practice approach to plastic surgery by hands on care. Yet I not care for writing for journals too much or books. I think because it is so time consuming,  that I rather be in the operating room more and when not I prefer sports or working on the web. Yet thank God for the Dr. Flowers, Parsas and Terino s of the world to immortalize our knowledge in journals and books. If it was up to me and those like me,  plastic surgery would regress in one generation into  the dark ages, due to lack of suitable reading material. I suppose we could pass on the art by oral tradition and verbal history, but books are more efficient.

Well thats all for now.

Doctor808

Dr. Parsa above is of Iranian descent and what I call a gentleman’s genetleman. Perhaps that is why he has been Chief of plastic surgery at the Queens Medical Center for as long as I can recall. The rest of us are perhapsshall I say too “sporty”. His efforts are responsible for the meeting which is going along very well. So here in that picture you have three doctors from I -descent, two italians and an Iranian , could you call them I-doctors?  Almost like a joke in way to me. What happens when an Irainian plastic surgeon and two Italian Plastic Surgeons are at a meeting? Well if you think of good punch line I will give you some free botox becuase I have no idea.

Doctor808 Dr. Pasquale

Time passes  fast as one gets older. Each day seems to merge into the next and there is no end to the amount of work that I need to do. I will be leaving back to Thailand in 10 days or so for some business and to attend a aesthetic conference and later in May an anti aging conference. This brings to mind what has the medical establishment really done in this field called anti aging?  Well in my humble opinion a lot and very little. The main advancements have been in healthy living, exercise, good diet, no smoking and proper common sense like not to take job in active toxic waste dump. So in common sense measures I would say we as doctors have done very well. Yet in term of scientific advances like some miracle with super anti aging drugs. There is simply no proven by science medication, injection , pill or other miracle potion which I know of. As a plastic surgeon I do things to reverse or hide some the effects of aging appearance but the DNA is still damaged, older people will still grow more extra skin that we cut off and illness will prevail ultimately.

Face lifts in Hawaii I do ,  for example can change the lines of aging and the remove the jowels of the jaw line . They can really make one look better , more rested and in turn make one feel better which may give the illusion of being younger. Yet in final analysis your still getting older as depressing as it may be. It can be done well or done poorly as for me I plan to do it well. The one organization which seems to toot the whistle year after year is A4M which is the short name for the American Academy of Ant Aging Medicine ( see the 4 A’s). This organization I was a member of at one time just like I was member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. I was also a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery as well and about 1/2 dozen of other professional groups. All of these organizations I allowed my membership to lapse for various reasons. They were all good organizations I suppose , but seemed so politically controlled by a few and the same thing being said year after year I guess I was tired of the same old stuff. Lets take A4M for example.. The same names appear over and over year after year as leadership. Not that this bad as I suppose as they are the ones who stay most involved. Yet its not my cup of tea. What I want to see is new really NEW advances and some progress in anti aging. Please Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Katz show me something new  in the field. Maybe its my bitterness with aging that makes me say this but I thought by now A4M would have me 24 years old again ! I say this all tongue in cheek so please accept my apology at A4M as the reality is , at least you are trying !!! So congratulations on your persistence. When I attend the meeting in Bangkok this year maybe I will be surprised and I will come back to Hawaii with ways to make myself 2o years younger ! Nothing would please me more.  This meeting will be held in Bangkok Thailand , May 2010.  I will stay at a condominium there.

chemical peels for age spots

The meeting in January this year is the International Congress of Aesthetic Dermatology January, 21 to 23, 2010 in Bangkok. I leave next week for that and other business as well. It will be along the lines of skin care , treatment and I believe some scientific care. There may be some anti aging but little plastic surgery in the traditional surgical venue. What I hope to learn is the latest treatments for age spots which affect so many of my asian patients. These age spots can be tough to treat, yet my Asian patients are lucky as they can be treated with patients and finding the proper treatment which may vary. Its a bit of trial and error. The same cannot be said about aging in general , as plastic surgeons we find ways to hide that but we cannot stop it.

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Dr. Michael Pasquale CEO AiMIYO LTD

Well I have been exceptionally busy over these holidays with some business issues other than Plastic Surgery. The office has been closed which has given me some time to put into my web development business personally rather than delegate. As many of you know and as my title of this blog states I am web designer and Internet geek. The team I have assembled and our web company is very unique. From the start we decided one of our area of expertise would be multilingual web sites. I would also add another important point which is that we believe that multilingual is not enough. A translation of a web page is not enough   because what is a web site  but a sales and marketing doorway. Even if the company we represent is not a classical sales of products type company,  it is still about sales. This means any company wants the web site we build to represent them in a most positive light. So in that sense it is selling an image to the viewer.

As I mentioned, multicultural- not simply translation of language. So what I mean by that is when we put a companies words into another language we do not just translate the words , but make the cultural message adjust to our audience as well. This is very important because the sensibilities of the Chinese for example , may not be the same as the French so the way material is presented may change , not just the words.

When we design a web site for different languages  our company AiMiYo LTD has the translation staff and the design staff from the culture (country ) on board with us  as a team approach. This multilingual, multicultural team is what makes our web sites different I believe. Please follow us as this grows. We are now building our new company web site at www.aimiyo.com for english, and in Japanese at www.aimiyo.jp. We will be adding languages over the next year such as Chinese , Korean , French and other  European languages as well.

Until next time

doctor808

I have not written in a while. There is a new business I am working on in Thailand called Bangkokfinder.com a web based real estate business. This requires a lot of time to get underway. It is part of my web empire I am building (said tongue in cheek). Please have a look. There are over twenty blogs my team and I are managing and setting up so this takes some time. Additionally we are building a new company web site which has changed names to AiMiYo International which is our web development firm. These are works in progress.  Our web company is coming along.

Well back to my report from China Trip. The second part of the China Trip was at a conference in a place called Hangzhou which is outside a few hours of Shanghai. This is almost a resort university town. This was a big meeting of cosmetic surgeons from all over Asia. The talks were good and meeting various surgeons was fantastic.

Lots of Meals in China with Doctor808

The most memorable aspects were the people. I met so many people some old friends and some new. My friend and travel buddy is Dr. Cuvo who is a Genza Cosmetic Surgeon who I have known well for many years. Taka as I call him also gave a lecture in Dalian China with me,  as well his lecture here. His specialty is Asian eyes.

There were many of my Korean Colleagues there as well. One thing about Korea Doctors I know is that no matter what town or city we are in they always know the best places to go. So when in a foreign country I follow them as for what ever reason they are in the know.

Well rather than fill these pages with words I will just show you as they say… a picture is worth a million words.

We will start with a nice video of the entertainment. Notice the mask carefully that the entertainer is wearing. Watch it or you will miss it !

There are some great photos of this event. One is of my long time friend Dr. Woffles Wu from Singapore. His first name is like the famous Hotel there. His dad was a pretty well known lawyer in that remarkable city state.

Dr. Wu and Doctor808

I have known Dr. Wu for many years and he is well known in Asia, he produced a movie in Singapore. We have not seen each other since I visited him in Singapore many years ago. Seems my recent trips to Singapore never had the time.

Again as the only ‘white guy” the Chinese treated me with extreme graciousness and of course and took my picture every where I went. The food was excellent as well. There was special liquor we drank called Mau Tai and it was very strong. This we set on fire before we drank, so we drank fire !!!. I ordered snake which was unfortunately boiled. I have had snake before barbecued and it was very good. Yet boiled I do not recommend at all.

Dr Cuvo enjoyed some snake

Overall My visit to yet another Chinese City was very informative and again growth was every where. As a visiting plastic surgeon from Hawaii it was a great adventure. I will simply share some more photos of the event.

A Cosmetic Surgery Clinic in Hanzhao

Chinese food dumplings

The face lift work shop in Dalian China as you can see from Part 1 was a rather large gathering. The number of Chinese Surgeons was around 120 and there were also some Japanese Surgeons.

Face Lift Students Dalian China -Large Crowd !

When I say it was a big class that is exactly what I mean.  I have attended or was an instructor for other facial nerve or face lift dissection workshops in Europe and North America but this was huge by comparison. Typically, such work shops are maybe 20 students or less and maybe two fresh specimens for dissection.

Well like everything else in China I saw this was on a huge scale with about 120 surgeons in attendance.

The picture above shows only partially the amount of people there. You can note me as the one in the brown leather coat looking over one of my students work. There were about 20 fresh specimens for dissection as noted.

I am pictured here with two students of face lift workshop in China

I was the only American and the only Caucasian there. This gave me some notoriety among my Asian Collegues in attendance. I was treated very graciously while there and I felt like I was  a novelty item.  It seemed every surgeon there,  wanted his picture with me. It is not that I am egotistic and think there is something special about me,  but I know that many wanted pictures with an American Surgeon.

After the workshop was completed there was dinner at one of the local hotels. Ceremonies were conducted by the chief surgeon and professor from Dalian University Hospital and a doctor from the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) of China. These PLA people were in attendance at the events, well trained , nice appearance and well spoken they appeared to lead the congregation there you might say.

Dalian China University Hospital President

The president and chief physcian  at Dalian University Hospital In China spoke at the dinner after the face lift work shop.

Also as mentioned the PLA Doctor  spoke while we enjoyed some very good food.

Some dish served at the Dinner

Every Dish is circulated on a "lazy susan" and there were many

The food was seafood mostly as Dalian China is a port city by the ocean. The food was excellent with about 20 different dishes all served on a rotating server similar to a very large “lazy susan” that we would see in the United states.

The staff at this banquet hall were pleasant and they were efficient making sure all the doctors were taken care of.

Nothing did I find distasteful but I must say I think Chinese food in China is much better than what I have had in the States

Well that is all for now–Doctor808

As mentioned earlier I was invited lecture and “professor” for Face lifting and cadaver dissection in the Peoples Republic of China and I finally arrived in Dalian on Saturday. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control I arrived a day late. However, my host were able to rearrange my lecture and I did not miss the cadaver instruction /dissection lab.  They were also kind enough to schedule a special session for my lecture so I still was able to present the information I had prepared on my technique for face lifting.

One thing I noticed is China is a huge place with a huge population. Thus the amount of doctors for this workshop was large. Typically specialized work shops will be held and there may be 20 surgeons in attendance. At this work shop there were over 100 Chinese physicians there all interested in cosmetic surgery of the face.

The enthusiasm for the lecture and the dissection of fresh cadaver heads was amazing. They were eager students, knowledgeable and were very serious about learning their chosen art of cosmetic surgery. China only recently has had a growing interest in cosmetic procedures as the population is becoming more affluent. They like all economically well off societies move beyond the need for just food and basics of living but now are seeking the life style enhancements of cosmetic surgery. Make no mistake about China,  has an excellent medical history -advancement and plastic and reconstructive surgery has been no exception. Yet only recently has there been great interest in cosmetic surgery.

The dissection lab

To the left is one photo of the many I will be showing you over the next week or so. I am waiting for my colleague’s to email me these to me. The dissection lab was about 40 minutes by car away from Dalian where the lectures were given and other ceremonies. This is inside the Hoffen Biotechnique Co. LTD China which was courteous enough to allow the dissection in their state of the Art facility.

That name may not be familiar to many of you unless I explain that this the company which has the famous exhibits around the world from Honolulu to Paris of incredibly well dissected and preserved human bodies. They use techniques which preserve the anatomy specimens including entire specimens in a plasticized form.

I am sure most of you have heard  of, if not seen their exhibits called “Bodies” or “Body Worlds’ which is the real exhibition of these plastinated bodies

You can search on Google for more of their exhibits and work or follow this link www.bodyworldexhibition.com .

The link for eng  lish and listing of their exhibits is  http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html . I had a private tour of their facility and I must say I was amazed. They had an incredible number of exhibited specimens such as humans, horses , fish , sharks, monkeys all well preserved and more importantly visually preserved by their plastination process. Below I have a few more photos of the exhibits in their facility.

Human Plastinated

A Plastinated Ostrich is shown above and a Plastinated Human is shown as well

The facility was ultra modern with state of the art equipment which made it the perfect place to have a fresh cadaver dissection for these over 100 doctors from china and 4 I believe from Japan.

There were approximately 20 human heads for the students to perform their dissection all freshly preserved so that the facial nerve and other anatomy was could be dissected and seen well. If they are preserved as with other techniques the dissections cannot be carried out for small detailed anatomy. Fresh cadaver is the best way for surgeons to learn anatomy unlike the in medical schools where they will dissect older processed cadavers. These specimens were excellent and so the surgeons could learn well.

We did get to know some the regular staff at the facility and they were very educated helpful and great facilitators for the learning. One young lady , Chinese of course has studied in London and she was very helpful due to the fact I do not speak Chinese. Her name was Yee-Lyn I believe is how it is pronounced she said she will read this blog so please send me a correction if I made a mistake. My apology for butchering the wonderful Chinese language.

Staff at the facility who has done english translations there

There are simply not enough words to express my gratitude to this company and the use of their facility.

I will be writing more about the China Lectures and this Dissection on my next post. When I recieve the pictures from my collegques I will be posting a more detailed account of this expirence

Doctor808

Last year I went to Halloween in Waikiki. I was dressed as some sort of self described witch doctor. I am sorry I have no photos of that. I was with a Witch and a Harajuku girl and some normal male. If you have never been to Honolulu on Halloween you have missed a sight to see. The only place I have been which is more out control is Las Vegas on New Years eve.

The main drag in Waikiki is filled with…… well crazy people. So this year I decided to avoid that all together.

To give you and idea of the sights you may see I borrowed these photos from a blog called photolulu.com which I discovered.

At any rate you can find these type photos all over the internet if your interested. Just take my word for it Waikai on Halloween is out of control and is not for the weak hearted.

If you like this type of madness then this is the place for you.

Greenwhich Village in New York City may rival this scene but I must say having attended both I think Waikiki wins the contest.

As I stated I decided simply to have a quite evening as far away from the Saturday night madness as possible. So a few of my staff members Zak, Kiyoko, Amber and myself went to Zaks apartment. We each brought some nice food and consumed and excellent Italian meal with wine. The great thing about the evening was very quite conversation and a few laughs with my close staff members. It was fun and light entertainment.

Zack is well , Zack as he says and a very good host. He makes a very good speghetti suace and I brought some Italian Chicken which I make which everyone enjoys. Well this was nice for me as I had been up all night in the emergency room. I still take emergency calls at the Queens Hospital and this was my call so I had to go in  for a few emergencies. Why I do this as I am not required but I do it still. Seems doctors should do this so I do it.

Back to the dinner. We consumed two bottles of nice red wine , cheeses of two types and spegehtti with my italian style chicken breast.

the famous host zack and k

Yes that is a whole foods paper bag there . Kinda cliche I suppose but they do have the best cheese. The red things are persimmons not tomatoes.

K of course who is a cheese lover is eating that.

Then for the main course.

Quite Evening on Halloween

Italian Chicken by doctor808, spaghetti by the Zack and cheese by Kiyoko. A great combination for a plastic surgeons office.

Well my mission was accomplished and I avoided this year the Mad House called Waikiki on Halloween. Maybe next year I will go down there and dress as something like an old plastic surgeon.

Well Monday will be back to the usual. We have a few cases to perform before my trip. Sunday I was planning on surfing but had to prepare the lecture for China on face lifts. We have made a very nice video of the surgical technique I use for face lifting.  This technique has become my standard after about 20 years of trying various techniques. However I always modify my technique to the individual face.

You can learn much more about face lift and facial appearance on my web site devoted to that. You can find that on my facial web site.

Well wishing my readers a quite Halloween until next post……

Doctor808

Well I have not been able to write much these days in this blog,  as I was preparing to teach in China next week. I was invited to a gathering of cosmetic and plastic surgeons in Dialin China to give a lecture on and hold a work shop on face lifting. My assigned task is to teach facial anatomy and facial nerve. This is a very difficult task in that some how I have to figure out how to do this as it relates to face lifting and teach it in less than two days. Well I finally decided and completely my presentation.

Of course these are all physicians from China and Japan –maybe some other assorted cosmetic surgeons from Korea and who knows where else. I doubt there will be many westerners.  Yet the face has extremely complex anatomy so I cant waste time even with Doctors. So I decided I will call my lecture “Essential Face Lift Anatomy”. What I will do is skip all the esoteric anatomical details and just get to pure essence. Maybe I should entitle this lecture “FACE LIFTING FOR DUMMIES” as I will give only the details that one needs to know when doing a face lift.

As far as complexity goes I am showing you a picture below which only shows a few of the details.

A few details

This picture from Netter’s textbook only shows the sensory nerve anatomy of the face. So you get an idea of how complex the face is. Then there are the muscles, the blood vessels , motor nerves,  bone and other soft tissues.

We will have cadavers there to dissect to further the study for these plastic surgeons. I had done a facial nerve (and peripheral nerve) fellowship for one year under Dr. Julia Terzis at the microsurgical research center, so I guess that is why they asked me to teach.  In face lifting the most important structure is the nerve as injury to the facial nerve is the worse complications. I am very happy that I spent a entire year focused on that and it has certainly helped me in face lifting. I do get referrals from other surgeons who have injured the facial nerve during cosmetic surgery but fortunately this is very rare and they for the most part of been temporary.

At any rate I will enjoy a quick look at China and  see how cosmetic surgery is done there. I will let you know about this as it unfolds.

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