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Your authoritative guide to weight loss surgery -- before, during, and after

Considering weight loss surgery? This compassionate guide helps you determine whether you qualify and gives you the scoop on selecting the best center and surgical team, understanding today's different procedures, and achieving the best results. You also get tips on eating properly post-op and preparing appetizing meals, as well as easing back into your day-to-day life.

Discover how to
* Evaluate your surgical options
* Understand the risks
* Prepare for surgery
* Handle post-op challenges
* Find sources of support.
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Zeros in on the knowledge you need to achieve the best results for the full range of facial flap procedures; includes perspectives from otolaryngologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons, to help you take all of these considerations into account in treatment planning.

• Better understand the anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics of the skin so you can make the most effective clinical decisions.

• New authors, new procedures, and new cases make this book all you need to produce controlled, predictable, and aesthetically pleasing results.
• Watch clips of key surgical procedures from the book, including reconstructive surgery of the nose and lip, with the included DVD.
• Implement the latest techniques with new chapters on Paramedian Forehead Flaps and Management of Vascular Abnormalities
• Quickly address and treat any potential surgical complication with an expanded section on adjunctive surgery.

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This title in the PROCEDURES IN COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY SERIES presents up-to-the-minute, practical guidance on botulinum toxin injection techniques shaping today's practice. Succinctly written and lavishly illustrated, it focuses on procedural how-to's and offers step-by-step advice on proper techniques, pitfalls, and tricks of the trade-so you can refine and hone your skills...and expand your surgical repertoire. You'll find current, to-the-point guidance on the cosmetic use of the toxin - edited by pioneers in the field, Drs. Jean and Alastair Carruthers. Implement the newest procedures into your practice immediately and confidently-with the outstanding guidance you'll find in this volume of the PROCEDURES IN COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY SERIES.

• Covers the hottest topics-including botox aesthetics, facial treatments, neck treatment, adjunctive treatment, pain relief, and facial asymmetry-all in one concise, accessible volume.


• Features a wealth of color illustrations and photographs that depict cases as they present in practice.


• Discusses common pitfalls and emphasizes how to optimize outcomes, enabling readers to improve their technique.


• Highlights emerging topics in the field, with guidance on the newest developments in cosmetic surgery.


• Includes a comprehensive, instructional DVD containing video clips of techniques and procedures as well as the experts' hints and tips.

• Use of fillers in combination with Botox to better sculpt the lower face


• Coverage of new fillers like Juvederm, Evolence, Radiesse and Perlane to keep you on the cutting edge


• New and expanded coverage of periocular treatment


• Highest quality video footage of procedures on the bonus DVD

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Second author, Charles L. Bolender, is with the Univ. of Washington, Seattle Resource offers coverage of the function and esthetic implications of edentulism as well as the clinical aspects of diagnosis and treatment. Features every aspect of effective treatment for edentulous patients. Includes current data on implant prosthodontics. Previous edition: c1997..
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What happens when a baby is born with "ambiguous" genitalia or a combination of "male" and "female" body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are "too small" for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant's genitalia. Over the past decade intersex advocates have mounted unprecedented challenges to treatment, offering alternative perspectives about the meaning and appropriate medical response to intersexuality and driving the field of those who treat intersex conditions into a deep crisis. Katrina Karkazis offers a nuanced, compassionate picture of these charged issues in Fixing Sex, the first book to examine contemporary controversies over the medical management of intersexuality in the United States from the multiple perspectives of those most intimately involved.

Drawing extensively on interviews with adults with intersex conditions, parents, and physicians, Karkazis moves beyond the heated rhetoric to reveal the complex reality of how intersexuality is understood, treated, and experienced today. As she unravels the historical, technological, social, and political forces that have culminated in debates surrounding intersexuality, Karkazis exposes the contentious disagreements among theorists, physicians, intersex adults, activists, and parents--and all that those debates imply about gender and the changing landscape of intersex management. She argues that by viewing intersexuality exclusively through a narrow medical lens we avoid much more difficult questions. Do gender atypical bodies require treatment? Should physicians intervene to control the "sex" of the body? As this illuminating book reveals, debates over treatment for intersexuality force reassessment of the seemingly natural connections between gender, biology, and the body..
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Proper use of medical terminology is essential to the success of dental professionals Learn the terms of the trade with this unique book. Terms are organized by specialty area for quick and easy reference. A variety of exercises are offered following each chapter providing ample opportunity to review and refresh. Whether you are new to dental terminology or simply need to brush up and review, this book is essential!.
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Written in the question-and-answer style of the successful The Secrets Series®, the latest edition of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets presents all of the most current clinical aspects of oral and maxillofacial surgery, including maxillofacial trauma, diagnosis of salivary gland disease, cysts and tumors, postoperative care, cleft lip and palate, oral and maxillofacial reconstruction, laser surgery, facial alloplastic implants, sleep apnea, and much, much more. The new edition has been completely updated by a diverse and distinguished group of contributors, and reflects recent advances in the field.

• Concise answers that include the author's pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets."
• Includes bulleted lists, algorithms, tables, and illustrations for quick review.
• 44 succinct chapters written by experts in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
• All of the most important "need-to-know" questions and answers in the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secrets Series®.
• Mnemonics memory aids used throughout the text give readers an easy way to recall important symptoms or treatment regimens.
• Thorough, highly detailed Index provides quick access to specific facts.
• Appeals to both students and practicing professionals as a quick reference.

• Thorough and complete updating of all clinical information
• New illustration package.

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New York City’s Park Avenue between 64th and 72nd Streets is the pinnacle for a plastic surgeon—if you can make it here, you’re at the top of your game. Home to the most renowned plastic surgeons—and clientele—in the world, it takes immense training and sacrifice to be successful on Park Avenue. Dr. Cap Lesesne, an internationally known plastic surgeon whose clients you would recognize from movies, TV, and the covers of magazines—supermodels, royalty, rock stars, and the very, very rich—now takes us behind the scenes to reveal the lives of his patients and the intimate reasons for which they call on his services.

Privy to his patients’ greatest insecurities, fears, and desires, Dr. Lesesne writes of making them over in the image of their favorite celebrities; being flown to a secret location to perform surgery on a queen and her lady in waiting; performing last-minute liposuction to perfect a model just seventy-two hours before a photo shoot; trying to turn back the clock for mega-rich dowagers who have started dating someone younger; and dozens of other fascinating cases. Dr. Lesesne also reveals his own struggles and challenges, and the toll his career has taken on his personal life.

A riveting insider’s account, Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon puts an astonishing new face on this booming industry..
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