Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

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