The Celebrity Effect
Reality or illusion? We spoke with plastic surgeon Dr Malcolm Linsell, who earlier this year presented at COSMEDICON 2020 on celebrities and their influence...
Nip, Tuck… Smile! Cosmetic Surgery In The Vanity Age
Body image researcher and clinician Roberta Honigman describes the new selfie-centric marketplace, its distortion of reality and its effect on cosmetic surgery.
Appearance, presentation and...
Clinic reopening post-COVID-19: a precautionary tale from China
The following is an excerpt from an article pending print in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: 32.
The government announced a lockdown to Wuhan on January...
Consensus guidelines for safe reopening after COVID-19
The reopening of society is likely to happen slowly and in a phased manner while keeping a focus on the strict infection control measures...
Managing acute emergencies in the cosmetic clinic
In the event of a medical emergency, does your clinic have a protocol in place? At COSMEDICON 2020 Dr Sean Arendse presented on the...
Rewarding patients for referrals: good marketing or bad practice?
Did you know that patient referral incentives could put you in breach of your professional obligations?
Ruanne Brell, Medico-legal Advisor, and Dr Walid Jammal, Senior...
‘Schedule 4 Cosmetics’ top TGA advertising complaints
On 1 July 2018 the TGA became the single body for handling complaints about the ‘Advertising of therapeutic goods in Australia’ and on 25...
Minimising Risks of Hyaluronic Acid Embolic Visual Loss
A research team of 22 prominent medical and nursing practitioners (15 from across Australia, as well as international experts from the USA, Germany, New...
Good Looking People Make More Money
Pulchronomics is the study of the financial and career advantages of ‘looking good’ – and the researchers agree those advantages are significant.
As human resources...
Questionable Ethics
Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons warns it is ‘ethically wrong to prioritise profits over patients’
Prominent Queensland plastic surgeon Dr Richard Theile has published a...
