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'Smile Doctors' Create

Imagine not having the ability to return the smile of a loved one or being too embarrassed by your mouth's appearance to display a smile. At the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago, plastic surgeons or "smile doctors" ...

Beautiful Smiles - Always in Style?

Am I the only one noticing a lot more stories recently about how to achieve a bright, white smile? Obviously, the majority of coverage in the popular mags continues to be on skin care, makeup, and fashion, but I wonder if the fact that having more smile whitening and smile straightening options than ever before is causing people to spend more time ...

Bonelike coating for dental implants makes everyone smile

(Nanowerk News) Research present in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inderscience Publishers suggests that coating dental implants with a synthetic bone material prior to implantation allows such implant to become incorporated much more successfully into the jaw, leading to smiles all round. Titanium is th ...

Collagen Injection Treatments

As the aging process occurs our faces begin to show the effects of gravity, sun exposure and years of facial muscle movement from smiling, squinting, and chewing . As the underlying tissues that keep skin looking youthful and plump begin to break down, they leave laugh lines, smile lines, crow's feet or facial creases over the areas where muscle mo ...

Muscle op restores smile

By detaching, rerouting and reattaching a muscle used for chewing, surgeons were able to restore the ability to smile to seven patients with facial paralysis. The procedure, called temporalis tendon transfer, is combined with intense physical therapy before and after surgery and could help similarly stricken patients right away. " ...

Out with the gaunt and tight, in with the plump and juicy

A woman I have known for many years did something to her face not all that long ago, and for a few weeks afterward, I was not able to put my finger on it. Did she get her eyes done? Restylane injections? Botox? Then I thought, Oh dear God, she got a face-lift. No one whom I consider a friend and a contemporary had yet gone that far. But there was n ...

Power Lunch

Women are skipping sushi for a noonday trip to the plastic surgeon's office . What's on the menu? Injectables. The wrinkle fillers are a quick and relatively pain free way to erase some sign of aging out the cheeks, lips and even the nose. Restylane, made of absorbable hyaluronic acid and often enlisted to fight deep smile lines is also the ...