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A complimentary web seminar series from the publishers of
Medical Economics and Contemporary OB/GYN
Rejuvenating Your Practice & Patients
Series begins on May 8, 2008, 12 PM - 1 PM, EST
These 1-hour web events, sponsored by Fraxel® and CareCredit® ,will feature a discussion between Cheryl Whitman, CEO of Beautiful Forever Consulting Firm and Linda Quinn, MD with a live Q & A session geared to physicians considering adding aesthetic services to their practices.
Covering topics which include market opportunities, revenue potential, risk management and staff training. This program will provide information that could help physicians attract new patients, retain existing patients and increase practice revenue.
Live Webcast Dates
- Thursday, May 8, 12PM - 1PM EST
- Wednesday, June 11, 6PM - 7 PM EST
- Thursday, July 24, 12PM - 1PM EST
- Wednesday, August 20, 7PM - 8PM EST
- Thursday, September 18, 10AM - 11AM EST
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 Beautiful Forever Medical Spa Business Consulting Firm Partners with theDerm.org to Offer High-Level Web Education to PhysiciansMedical spa professionals to benefit from combined knowledge base
Beautiful Forever Medical Spa Business Consulting Firm, Inc., which helps physicians, investors and entrepreneurs achieve unparalleled profitable success in the medical spa and aesthetic industry is pleased to announce a new partnership with www.theDERM.org. This is the first time a medical/aesthetic business consulting firm is collaborating with the dermatology education initiative and online community.
"This partnership creates great synergy for our organization, our members and Beautiful Forever," says Linda Ciminesi, Program Director for Internet Communities, Millennium Medical Communications, Inc. "We have always recognized the need to complement medical content with good business content and our partnership with Cheryl Whitman and Beautiful Forever will accomplish that goal."
A benefit of this alliance is Beautiful Forever's willingness to make the Medical Spa Success System, www.medicalspasuccess.com, available to all members of theDERM.org at a special "members-only" discount. In addition, new educational initiatives aimed at the development of best business practices for medical professionals will be provided in the Aesthetics Health Center and Cosmeceutical Health Center sections of the site. This initiative is aimed at helping medical professionals make their practice more efficient.
To further enhance the site, a new page will be developed in theDERM.org Industry Resource Center for medical professionals to access content from the Beautiful Forever library. Plans for CME activities on Medical Spa operation and management are under way.
"We are pleased to offer our educational products and expertise through theDERM.org," says Cheryl Whitman, founder and CEO of Beautiful Forever. "We look forward to enhancing the great education they are already providing."
About Beautiful Forever Consulting Firm, Inc.
Drawing on more than 30 years experience in the aesthetic industry, Cheryl Whitman founded Beautiful Forever Consulting Firm, Inc., to provide a high level of personal attentionhelp launch and reenergize new and existing medical practices and spas, cosmetic medical centers, wellness centers and age management institutes using the most effective strategies and actionable solutions available. To learn more, please call 1-877-SPA-MEDI or go to www.medicalspaconsultant.com or www.medicalspasuccess.com . to
theDerm.org is an Internet community designed to meet the educational needs of dermatology and aesthetic medicine healthcare professionals by providing the latest evidence-based date to improve patient care and clinical outcomes. theDerm.org allows its members to connect with other dermatologists, receive medical conference highlights written by national expert physicians, access the latest peer-reviewed medical content and evidence-based CME activities, and register for live Webinar programs. Access to www.theDerm.org is free to healthcare providers although registration is required. For more information, visit www.theDerm.org to register or contact inof@theDerm.com.
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 Botulinum toxin in topical form draws interest
Mar 1, 2008
By: Nancy A. Melville
Dermatology Times
National report -- Much about it is still somewhat of a mystery, but early findings on a topical form of botulinum toxin have been compelling enough to earn a $20 million show of support from Medicis and catapult the research onto the cosmetic medicine radar.
The botulinum toxin molecule is large -- very large -- and just how the molecule could penetrate the stratum corneum and make its way deep enough under the skin to have the same effect as injected botulinum toxin has many scratching their heads.
Even the company behind the research, Mountain View, Calif., Revance Therapeutics, hasn't quite figured it out yet.
"There's a lot more that we don't know than we do know, but our approach is driven by scientific data, and what we've seen so far in preclinical and clinical trails outside of the U.S. has been very encouraging," says Dan Browne, president and CEO of Revance.
The details of what Revance does know about the vehicle are still largely under wraps, but a preliminary study that is the first published research on the formulation refers to the vehicle as a "proprietary transport peptide molecule that binds the toxin in a noncovalent manner."
Plastic Surgery Focuses On Face, Chest in 2007
ASPS Reports Parallel Increases in Women and Men, Closing Gender Gap
March 25, 2008
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Plastic surgery procedures of the face and chest were popular among both women and men in 2007, increasing at similar rates for similar procedures, according to statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Facelifts increased 14 percent for women and 16 percent for men from 2006. Breast augmentation for women increased 6 percent and pectoral implants for men increased 8 percent. Further, reconstructive breast reduction for women increased 2 percent, which is a significant difference from the 9 percent decrease reported last year. Male breast reduction increased 7 percent.
"It is not surprising that the highly visible focal points of the face and chest would interest both women and men seeking plastic surgery," said ASPS President Richard A. D'Amico, MD. "However, while 91 percent of plastic surgery procedures are performed on women and 9 percent are performed on men, it is interesting to see the rate of increase is comparable in both."
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 Do My Breast Implants Have a Warranty?By NATASHA SINGER
Published: January 17, 2008
A NAKED woman, her left arm strategically draped over her nipples, grins beatifically at readers in an advertisement for cosmetic surgery that equates breast implants with a more durable commodity: jewels.
"You know that feeling when you find the perfect size," reads the copy for the Natrelle Breast Enhancement Collection that ran in the November issue of Elle magazine. "And we're not talking diamonds."
It is the kind of marketing analogy that gives breast implants a bad name. Diamonds, as De Beers and a James Bond novel once suggested, are meant to last forever. But breast implants often do not.
"Breast implants are not lifetime devices, and breast implantation is not necessarily a one-time surgery," reads a warning in much smaller type on the back of the advertisement. Indeed, whether women initially underwent implant surgery for cosmetic reasons or for reconstruction after breast cancer, roughly one third of patients in clinical trials had a second operation within four to five years, according to statistical tables in the ad.
Almost two decades after a national hue and cry arose after fears that leaking silicone breast implants might cause systemic disease, breast augmentation has become the country's most popular cosmetic operation. The renaissance of breast enhancement surgery is fueled in part by the Food and DrugAdministration's decision in 2006 to approve a new generation of silicone implants, ending a 14-year moratorium on their general use.
But with such high rates of reoperation, a new debate is emerging over whether breast implants constitute the kind of annuity medicine that will entail regular surgical tuneups, exposing patients to increased medical risk and out-of-pocket expenses. At a time when manufacturers have provided the F.D.A. with clinical studies that follow patients for just a few years, there is no established medical consensus on how long implants last, leaving doctors to rely on their anecdotal experiences when discussing durability with patients.
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