A Turkish facial plastic surgeon known for hyper-viral social media content is being sued by a featured patient who says the images of him that went viral last week are altered and inauthentic. That’s according to a live, on-the-ground interview conducted in Turkey on Sunday, where the alleged surgeries are said to have taken place. First to find and speak to the patient featured on social media was Ekol TV, a Turkish news station, who broke this news early Monday, June 3, 2024. Clinic’s Claim, Now Deleted: “We performed facelift, necklift, lower eyelid blepharoplasty, upper blepharoplasty, buccal fat removal, rhinoplasty,…
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A 41-year-old mother of four has died of procedural complications following a trip to Matamoros, Mexico, for cosmetic surgery, early information indicates. Early available information confirms Sherry Jo Linney-Gilmore, 41, perished, and suggests that she experienced abdominal pain shortly after surgery. Nurses attributed it to routine discomfort, such as can occur after anesthesia, rather than the severe and life-threatening complication it was. Gilmore was transported to a hospital in Brownsville, Texas. There, doctors said Gilmore’s intestines had been perforated during liposuction surgery, causing sepsis and her demise, according to an online note attributed to family, first reported and shared by…
A woman who got a Brazilian butt lift surgery and other cosmetic work during COVID is now sharing what she wish she knew beforehand. Tips, Regrets, Warnings TikTok user @damxoxo8 says she wish she knew the following about Brazilian butt lift surgery, in summary: @damxoxo8 What YOU should know before getting a BBL! #fypage #fypシ゚viral #bbl #bbltruth #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp ♬ MILLION DOLLAR BABY (VHS) – Tommy Richman
A 30-year-old New York beauty technician, botched in a 2022 tummy tuck procedure by an unnamed surgeon who she says “almost killed” her, has had pro bono revision and repair work at the hands of Philadelphia plastic surgeon Christian Subbio, M.D. It’s a bright spot on a 200lb weight loss and skin removal surgery journey that has attracted the support and attention of nearly 70,000 followers and friends across social media. Victoria Michaels (@nulleigh) was “botched, neglected and abused,” two years ago, after losing almost 200 pounds. She says she awoke from that surgery and “looked horrendous,” and was then…
The results of a cross-sectional study suggest that social media empowers plastic surgery patients. The study, accepted April 24, 2023 and published in April 2024 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery concluded: Social media use appears to have a positive impact on PRS patient empowerment, which may reflect better patient decision-making and autonomy when consulting with their plastic surgeon. “Our study suggests that connecting to social media is associated with meaningful increases in empowerment for PRS patients, and may have positive effects on patient-centered decision-making.” Samuel J. Lin, MD, MBA, ASPS Member Surgeon of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center…
A woman whose ruptured breast implants were filled with industrial-grade silicone experienced severe breast pain and autoimmune diseases, says the surgeon who successfully removed them while preventing their toxic content from seeping into her body. Explant surgeon Joshua Lampert, MD, says the patient, who flew from Virginia to Miami for surgery, had been given a brand of breast implants in Columbia that are no longer produced or available worldwide. Their manufacturer, PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse), was liquidated in 2010, and its founder sentenced to four years in prison in 2013. PIP was found to be using industrial-grade silicone in its…
A new book by sociologist and author Sarah Thornton, “Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts,” is set to be released May 7, published by W.W. Norton & Company. A pre-release essay adapted from Tits Up appeared Saturday in The Wall Street Journal titled, “I Used to Judge Women Who Got Boob Jobs. Then I Got One.” “During training we were told that if women wanted to go flat, it was a sign of poor mental health. It was assumed that she didn’t care about her body,” said [Austin, Tx.,…
A beloved Chilean influencer is feeling brand-new and better than ever after having her breast implants removed. In four videos of her explant experience and early outcome—seen 9.978 million times in under a week—Bramty Juliette, 29, is bright, vibrant, and ‘feeling better than ever.’ Bramty had her breast implants removed on Wednesday, April 24, undergoing the procedure with Dr. David Rankin, a board-certified surgeon and explant specialist in Florida. “How could I be living such a healthy, holistic, natural life with two foreign objects in my chest?,” Bramty writes in a caption. Bramty says her body—her temple—was “fighting” the presence…
A woman who once had breast implants says breast augmentation surgery was the most dystopian thing she had ever done in life, and that her breast implants made her ill. Speaking six years after having her implants removed, she says she’s gotten her health back 100 percent. Natalie Alzate of OfflineHuman.com and “Natalie’s Outlet” has 8.24 million subscribers on YouTube and 702,000 followers on Instagram, where she shared her story on Sunday. Natalie Alzate first shared her explant experience in a moving video on June 13, 2019, where details make her decision and recovery all the more noteworthy. Here’s what…
Newsweek is once again asking peers and providers to name this year’s “best plastic surgeons.” The magazine will conduct an online survey of plastic surgeons, their staff, and other healthcare providers between March 20 and April 15. Data collection firm Statista, Inc., will partner with the publication as it has since 2021 in this research, and for survey projects in other fields—automotive, hospitals, and workplaces. Peers, healthcare providers, and relevant administrators will be able to cast votes for the best plastic surgeons in breast augmentation, facelift, liposuction, rhinoplasty, and blepharoplasty surgery. Newsweek invites readers who “work in a plastic surgery…
A leading peer-reviewed medical journal published—and very rapidly retracted—an article with imagery and text overlays created by artificial intelligence, or AI, software. The AI-generated images and attendant text were entirely inaccurate, biologically. The article and subsequent retraction garnered widespread attention due at least in part to what the paper pretended to show and tell. The peer-reviewed article purported to show various signaling pathways of sperm stem cells, and it used a rodent with overly large genitals—along with AI-generated gibberish—to make its case. The article, published in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology, featured an AI-generated rat with giant…
UFC analyst and star Megan Anderson says rhinoplasty to treat broken nose, lip filler and Botox are only procedures done.
Editor’s Note: This a contentious topic on which studies are nonexistent and expert opinions are diametrically opposed. Surgeons have heated implants in microwaves, in saunas, and in hot water to no immediately obvious effect. Patients, advocates, and surgeons have likewise shared images of aged breast implants that many describe as “melted.” This article is part of our ongoing coverage of breast implants and saunas. A Houston-based board-certified plastic surgeon says saunas and hot tubs are safe for women with breast implants. Silicone, which breast implants are made of or encased in, melts at roughly 400 degrees, a temperature the surgeon…
Richard J Brown, MD, says $4,000 would hardly cover the costs of his anesthesiologist and operating room fee in performing liposuction and an abdominoplasty surgery—much less his own fee. “You get what you pay for,” Brown said. “It does not cost that little money to do those procedures.” The board-certified plastic surgeon operates in Scottsdale, Ariz. but was conducting a Q&A session on January 18, during which he fielded questions about a liposuction and tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) combo advertised at around $4,000 in Miami, Florida. Anyone in the field who is good at what they do would “never charge that…
The 40 most notable public figures in cosmetic surgery content creation this year on TikTok. Rated according to follower count, industry influence, and, very rarely, notoriety.
The 41 U.S. board-certified plastic surgeons voted by peers as among ‘America’s Best Plastic Surgeons,’ in all five surveyed surgical subspecialties, in an annual survey by Newsweek and Statista, Inc.
The 48 female plastic surgeons who placed in Newsweek magazine’s “Best Plastic Surgeons 2023” survey and rankings. Ranked based on the number of separate lists on which a surgeon appeared.
Newsweek magazine released Wednesday, June 15, its now-annual lists of “America’s Best Plastic Surgeons.” The five lists reflect a weighted tabulation of online survey responses solicited and received in March and April of this year from “skin healthcare professionals” across the nation. Voters included plastic surgeons and their practice managers, but self-selection wasn’t permitted. According to a joint presentation by Newsweek and Statista Inc, more than 2,000 such medical professionals were invited to the survey, and 5,900 votes were cast in all for each of five surgical specialties. The votes ultimately placed 349 of the nation’s nearly 8,000 practicing plastic…
RHONJ Star Jennifer Aydin is “officially done with surgeries” and regrets a rhinoplasty by Turkish plastic surgeon Dr. Mustafa Ali Yanik, whom she said she “would never recommend…to anyone.” Aydin shared her experience in an Instagram post of her own on February 1, 2022, and in a comment response to a February 7, 2022 video post by Instagram’s “1 Source for Bravo News,” @BravoHouseWives. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝘑𝘌𝘕𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘙 𝘈𝘠𝘋𝘐𝘕 (@jenniferaydin) Responding further, on an Instagram post by BravoHouseWives, Aydin wrote: “Just so you guys know, I was not happy with the way that I…