Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

As some of my readers may know I have been to China several times giving lectures on face lift , as well as on breast implants surgery. China has only been in the cosmetic surgery game for about 8 years. After the old politics went away to some degree and the true opening up of China to profit making- cosmetic surgery took off. Recently , on my last trip to Tokyo last week my friend Taka Kuvo a well known Ginza Cosmetic Surgeon introduced me to a Chinese entrepreneur. She apparently wants to open up a cosmetic surgery clinic. We may become involved although I am not sure yet.

The meeting was held in one of Tokyo’s famous sushi places where exotic Japanese dishes are served. Not to my taste but very edible and different. I was with Taka and not really involved in the discussion but allow me to say I would love to help out a upstart cosmetic surgery clinic in China.

Meeting with Chinese Taka Cuvo

The meeting may or may not bear fruit but good ideas were kicked around so stay tuned about this. I love working with the Chinese and every visit has been a pleasure.

The interesting thing for Americans to note is that its almost like celebrity status to be a white guy in China.  The media seems to love to show a Caucasian face. its as if they are saying “Look at us we have western people here so we are coming on strong–look out world here we come!

This is not my idea but has been written about in the press the idea of having a white face in their corporate media–Chinese Multiculturalism ?

In fact I had my Chinese administrative assistant search the Chinese internet for anything about our visits there. I though maybe I would be lucky if one picture or statement was found. Yet I was very surprised.

My photo was all over the internet , web sites looking important and shown on not only news media but hospital web sites. I must say I was entertained by this. I was touted as an western expert which I suppose I am. Yet if you know me you will also know I do not particularly have a high brow demeanor and more or less casual in approach to my practice. I prefer to really get know my patients as opposed to come on too “doctorly”.

I have enclosed some of these photos below which I thought the poses and the lightening etc was actually pretty good. I almost believe looking at these photos that its not me but some very important guy !!

Well what else can I say about this international cosmetic surgery business? All in all I say its fun I learn a lot from my peers abroad and I hope they learn from me as well. The point is to me its all how can we be the very best we can to our patients? That is what I try to do I hope.

Its easy to get caught up in the glamor of cosmetic surgery field but we always must keep in mind that our patients place their trust in us which is a humble experience.

Well my dear readers until next time and please enjoy the photos.

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Dr Pasquale examines a burn patient in China

Group Photo In China--mandatory white guy in middle

Plastic Surgeon From 9th Miltary Hospital China discusses case

I have been so busy lately that I have not had time to write much. Yet I will try to get back to it now. One reason is my web company AiMiYo International have been finishing up a huge project. This is Japanese Cosmetic Surgeons web site  —-Ginza Tokoyo Cosmetic Surgeon. This has kept me and the team busy for about month and I had to Travel to Japan to teach. There I conducted a l”live surgery ” work shop on neck lifting.  This was for a course held in which I taught a lecture and we actually performed a surgery to teach other surgeons in Tokyo in a section called Akhihabara. The course was for about 100 surgeons I gave all interested in learning to improve there neck lifting techniques. Surgeons were from mainly Korea, Japan and some from China . Again they were good students.

Akhihabara also known as Electric City or Otaku town is famous because of the electronic industry and animae (animated characters like sailor moon) that fills the town. An Otaku used to be a derogatory word which was a negative description for some weird computer geek. These Otaku were famous for anti -social behavior and living in computer world. A entire section of Tokyo has developed about this. Most famous is the maids cafe s in the area. To understand this you really have to see that. I have been and what it basically is cute very young japanese girls dressed as 19th century maids or some modification of that who greet you as “Master” and serve you in such a way. They have coffee cake and play games like rock -paper -scissors. They also get on the stage and sing songs laugh etc with all the Otaku’s in the crowd.

It seems many of these true Otaku’s do not have much human interaction,  so when they come to the maid cafe’s its a real treat. I noted some very very strange people there and not just young men or older men but some woman. One in fact was talking to herself an obvious mentally ill individual and another male had pictures of all the maids on his hat and seemed to be a regular. Very strange indeed. Well the maid cafe is I believe is an out growth of this entire virtual world of computers. In this world you can be somewhat anything you want and I have spent some time reading blogs and other venues and actually myself developed an entire virtual world “plastic surgery isle” a few years ago as part of a project and fun too. I owened a cafe called Hell’s cafe and had a staff of 14 Japanese Waitresses all virtual in a 3 d world. It was quite fascinating actually and I think the internet will advance to that more later. I stopped the project as it was clear we it would show not profit as an advertising venue just yet. I believe it will later.

Virtual Plastic Surgery World Created by me 2007

Sometimes I see things on the internet which are rather sad and I see people who are escape and live so much in the internet they loose touch with normal values and etiquette. Its easy to do because of what may be perceived as a shield of anonymity.

The use of such shield brings out certain characteristics I believe which are somewhere in core. The bad side of this is there is no true anonymity on the internet and all information can and at times is found. Employers such as myself will many times look up information on people who apply for a job on the internet and we are not just talking about a google search, there are very sophisticated programs which will search and find out much what appears to be hidden information.

Well that aside there is so much to come in the future of virtual worlds and Akehabara , Japan is one place it will be seen to grow,

The meaning for plastic surgery is yet to be seen but my early experiment was enlightening. I will eventually start again into this venue but for now we need to stick to more traditional web marketing.

As soon as I can will be bringing you more information about vairous meetings we have planned both for the Web Development Firm and Plastic Surgery Practice. As example we have another meeting in Tokyo next week for cosmetic surgery where we will be launching a new web based product one of AiMiYo’s programmers has recently finished. We have two more meetings plannned this summer primarily for the web company but in the fall its back to China for a cosmetic surgery conference.

Seems my name has become some what known in China as a teacher of cosmetic surgery. This picture of a chinese web site below has me featured but as far as what it says I have no idea.

Dr Pasquale Featured In China

Speaking of China there simply is not enough time to write about that place in my schedule yet I have so many photos and events there to discuss.

I promise in the future I will write more detail , yet for now I will simply say as far as cosmetic surgery goes—-look east its going to be a huge wave coming. As this society grows more affluent consumer demand is growing for such services.

Our plastic surgery chinese web is developed and completed.

Well that is all I have time for now. I have to get ready for the Japanese conference next week.

Until next time

Doctor808

Well my Dear readers, it has been a few weeks since I have had a chance to make a new entry. The reason is that I was swamped with surgical cases, web projects and then getting ready for my trip to give lectures in Korea and China. Now I have a day to catch my breath and I am Bangkok Thailand. Here is Me , the Red Shirts,  as well as 11 million other assorted Thais and Foreigners. All one big happy Bangkok family.

For you with lack of initiative, the red shirts are the other party opposed to the yellow shirts in Thailand and and its a mess. It is not bad at all for tourist as long as you use common sense and stay away from protest areas. In these places  as our beloved embassy advises , a peaceful crowd can turn into an angry mob so as long as you stay away from these areas which are small compared to the country and city your fine. Problem is my condo is 1 block away from the action and 32 stories up,  so I can see and hear and be above it all.

Well I am only here for a few days so it really does not matter to me what takes place as long as it ends rather quickly and peacefully. I will be off to China in 24 hours. There I have been invited by the head plastic surgeon in China to lecture at one of their hugh conferences which my talk will be on Breast Augmentations. What I am talking about is the “Tips and Tricks in Breast Augmentation. Well let me say I have a few after 20 years of doing that so I might as well share it with Chinese eh?

Oh no !!!! Not another breast augmentation lecture !!!

Well like I said I should be able to have something to say about Breast Augmentation after 20 years of doing them.  When you do something that long you learn all the mistakes and more importantly how to fix them. In fact we devoted and entire web site to that topic called  FixYourBreast.com . I mean can you imagine such as name for a web site. Well all I can say about that is — we design web sites so why not.

The people I met on this first leg of the trip were a lot of fun and I will be telling you some interesting stories in a later post. Korea always fascinates me, as it reminds me of my own Italian culture somewhat. Contrast that to the  easy going , no tempered Japanese colleagues of mine there such as Dr. Cuvo , Dr. Ashida and Dr. Kure all mild mannered and polite.  Well at least to you get to know them anyway and then they may change ?  The Koreans like me can be loud , determined and a lot of fun. One of my Korean friends told me the reason for this was that Italians like Koreans live on a peninsula. So that means we are always attacked from many sides. Seems like an interesting theory.

The meeting went well in Korea and I will come back to this topic in later post. I need to go see my business partner here now and get back to work. I just felt guilty for not writing for a while. Till next time.

doctor808

Dailin University President last trip to China

Last time I went to China I gave a lecture on Face Lifting, this time I have a world wide lecture circuit on Breast Augmentation. This will be a three country tour starting in Korea , this stop will be for my lecture called  ” A simple technique for breast axillary breast augmentation with a new surgical instrument the “boob-a-rang”. Although this may sound like a joke for name of an instrument its not. Many years ago I invented a instrument to perform the axillary dissection for breast implants. This device works well and is shaped some what like a boom-a-rang thus the name. I have had great success without complication compared to other instruments I have used. I manufacture, designed and sell this to other surgeons and it is FDA approved.

Well that is the first leg of the tour, then next its on to China City of Fuzhou. There will be a huge meeting where I will again to present several lectures on my breast augmentation technique.  I was invited by the head Plastic Surgeon personally for all of China. That is huge as in country like China so large but only one Chief. Well I am very excited  about this invitation and I will let my readers know about this at progresses.

Finally I will end up in Bangkok Thailand at my safe zone where I will relax a few days and check on my other business interest there. Then back to Hawaii home sweet home.

Well thats all for now and I will let you know what is next.

Doctor808

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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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

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.

Doctor808