Dr. Barry Kaplan

Appearance Medicine

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by admin in Body Procedures, Facial Procedures

Recently published in the Cosmetic Surgery Times were articles describing some new techniques. This area is becoming called appearance medicine as it is non-surgical. One is called adipose augmentation, that is using your own fat to enhance the volume of the area where the fat is transplanted. There has been controversy over using this fat for breast augmentation, however, I have used this technique for over 10 years. For the right person, it is an excellent technique. Plastic surgeons were trying to say it caused calcifications in the breast which could obscure the detection of breast cancer. It turns out (and I knew this for a long time) that there is a very low percentage of calcification formation and it is extremely small and in no way obscures cancer detection. This was an unfounded attempt by plastics to scare patients away from this technique. Autologous fat can also be transplanted into the face for volume enhancement, the back of the hand, or defects from aggressive liposuction.
The next new technique is carboxytherapy, which is the injection of carbon dioxide under the skin and into cellulite, scars, loose skin, psoriasis, or ulcers to promote healing, tightening, lessening of fatty deposits and is a very safe, easy, no downtime procedure. I have been performing carboxy therapy for about a year and have some very nice improvements for cellulite and fatty deposits not able to be treated with liposculpture.