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Anti Ageing surgery should be done in two parts

Facelifts and other wrinkle-reducing procedures have long been sought by people wanting to ward off the signs of aging, but new research suggests that it takes more than tightening loose skin to restore a youthful look. A study by physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center indicates that significant changes in facial bones - particularly the jaw bone - occur as people age and contribute to an aging appearance.

Presented at the American Association of Plastic Surgeons annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and published in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the study suggests that the future approach to facial rejuvenation may be two-fold, first restoring structure underneath before performing skin-tightening procedures.

Reviewing a collection of 120 facial CT scans taken for other, unrelated medical reasons, plastic surgeons measured changes that occurred to facial bones over time. The CT scans were divided equally by gender and age, 20 men and 20 women in each of three age groups: young (ages 20-36), middle (41 to 64), and old (65 and older). Researchers used a computer program to measure the length, width, and angle of the mandible, or jaw bone, for each scan, and compare the results for each group. Using CT scans for this study allowed for more accurate three-dimensional reconstruction and increased accuracy of measurements, disputing previous research that relied on traditional head x-rays and suggested that the jaw bone expands with age.

The angle of the jaw increases markedly with age, which results in a loss of definition of the lower border of the face, according to the study. Jaw length decreases significantly in comparisons between the young and middle age groups, whereas the decline in jaw height from the middle to old group was noteworthy.

News article added 22nd July 2010

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Does Your Mirror Lie To You? 

By Dr E. Terino

We tend to attach too much importance to birthdays. Our society teaches us to judge people’s bodies, attitudes, and values by their chronological age. Chronologically “old” means that people should “act their age” and not try to look and act young.

As a cosmetic surgeon, I observe people change from older-looking to younger-looking. I watch men and women who “used to be old” become young. The surgery makes them act, feel and think younger.  In short, they are younger!

When men and women come to me for rejuvenation or restoration, they often point to some physical change, such as drooping jowls or wrinkles around the eyes, and they tell me that they “wish to look better,” not necessarily younger. Those who acknowledge that they would like to “look younger” are embarrassed. They say, “I guess I’m just vain.”  I tell them that perhaps vanity is a lesser sin than self-neglect, and that it is totally appropriate for them to look more youthful.  They have an intuition that it’s alright for them to look more youthful, but they often have difficulty expressing exactly why they feel that way.

I ask these patients, “How many years have you been on this planet?”  They look at me strangely and then give me their numerical age. I then ask, “How old do you feel deep inside you?  At this point, most patients brighten up and say, “I don’t feel old at all. I feel young!”  Most of them feel as if they are in the 20’s or 30’s.

Chronological age is not their real age, even though the world at large determines age by the number of years a person has lived.  People become pigeonholed by thinking, “Here’s a woman between 45 an d50. She probably feels and acts this way.  So let’s not talk to her about a rock concert or string bikinis from Brazil.”  In short, we have her figured out without every listening to her and really knowing who she is.

In addition to confronting these conventional attitudes, we all have to face the “lie of the mirror.”  The mirrors shows more sags and wrinkles with each passing year, while the child within us is experiencing a life of self-refection, vigor and youth. The lie of the mirror is persuasive and hard to resist.

It is hard to feel alive and excited when the face in the mirror says you are getting old. Yes, wrinkles are real, but the mirror belies how young you are inside.  Often patients and I wonder, “Would we truly become old if it were not for mirrors and the feedback we get from others?” Without them, would we stay young, alive and excited until the moment we die?  As the essayist Ashley Montague said, “Die young as late as possible.”

Aesthetic surgery can make changes that will confuse the pigeonholers and force the mirror to tell something closer to the truth. It can turn the clock back so that the patient can be more in touch with the child within.  Patients have a brighter, fresher look. They become sharper in their dress.  There is a spring in their step.  Their inner youth is now matched by their outer, more youthful appearance. They look more like themselves than they’ve looked in many years. And it reminds then that lifelong youthfulness is a real possibility.

News article added 6th January 2010

 

A Letter From Dr Edward Terino to his Patients, November 2009

To all my patients and friends over the years, this is the most important communication which I have ever sent to you all. 

The only permanent in life is change and change should always be positive.  In this case, I am making a change in the organization of my practice designed to provide you and your family, friends and other kind of referrals with better care and a wider variety of choices with regard to surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic treatments and other lifestyle treatments such as minimally invasive surgical treatment for the growing population of overweight individuals.  Whereas, at the moment, I am still maintaining my independent practice that includes everyone I have been taking care of in my career and your subsequent family, friends, and referrals.  I am forming an affiliation with another group of plastic surgeons formally called The Hospital Group Physicians (Plastic Surgeons).  The Medical Director whom is Michael Edwards MD PhD, a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with a subsequent PhD in stem cell and aging sciences and medical and surgical residency and fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery training from Baylor College of Medicine.  Dr. Edwards is presently board eligible and on his way to becoming board certified and is also experienced in the field of microsurgery for nerve pain and neuropathies that will also become a part of the group armamentarium of lifestyle surgeries. Dr. Edwards has worked directly with me for the past two years at the Plastic Surgery Institute of Southern California and is fully trained by me, personally, in the latest and most advanced techniques in Cosmetic Surgery and Facial Implant surgery.

We have joined with a management group from Europe called the Hospital Group that has a tremendous experience of 20 years in running cosmetic surgery centers throughout the entirety of England, Ireland, Italy, Dubai, and Spain.  Their management skills have proven highly successful without fault and I am looking forward to the benefit that they will afford us here in the United States starting in Southern California and during this difficult economic recessionary period.

As we all know, Southern California has been the world Mecca for the rich and famous, the entertainment industry, and cosmetic surgery for a long time.  As you also know, we have been this part of the country and state that has been the most heavily hit by the real estate and the financial crash, as well as unemployment more than anywhere else in the US.

However, cosmetic surgery and treatments, which afford individuals the ability to feel better about themselves, enhance their self esteem and better their personal and business relationships will always be a never-ending booming industry despite the pocket book limitations of our public at the present time.

The major goal of myself along with the Hospital Group Physicians is to bring quality results by quality surgeons and excellent and optimum patient care using the latest technologies to all classes of people here in Southern California, the rich and famous, the middle class, and the medium class, and anyone who wishes to and is able to afford it in the average working classes.

There will be frequent communications about recent progresses in cosmetic surgery technologies, as well as Lap-Band weight loss technologies and diets, and also nonsurgical treatments such as Botox, Dysport (a new Botox product approved by the FDA and used throughout Europe for a long time) and of course technologies.  We just want to keep you informed about the latest cosmetic products worldwide which are part of the Hospital Group’s portfolio including advances in hair restoration and cosmetic dentistry as well.

Best Wishes,

Edward O. Terino MD FACS

News article added 6th December 2009

 

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