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Date: Feb 9, 2012
By:
Bill Gillette
| Source: Cosmetic Surgery Times E-News
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Cutera, a provider of laser and other light-based systems used by cosmetic surgeons, has finalized its $5.1 million cash purchase of the global aesthetic business of Iridex, Mountain View, Calif.
Date: Feb 8, 2012
By:
Bill Gillette
| Source: Dermatology Times E-News
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The tattoo boom of recent years has spawned an additional growth industry. The ranks of tattoo removal practitioners have increased substantially over the past five years, with revenue rising at an average annual rate of about 21 percent to $65.6 million in 2012, market analysis firm IBISWorld reports.
Date: Feb 2, 2012
By:
Bill Gillette
| Source: Cosmetic Surgery Times E-News
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Clinical trial results suggest that natural supplement Pycnogenol (Horphag Research), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, improves skin hydration and elasticity in women.
Date: Feb 2, 2012
By:
Bill Gillette
| Source: Cosmetic Surgery Times E-News
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The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Cynosure’s Cellulaze Workstation, a cellulite treatment device, for commercial distribution, the company announced.
Date: Feb 1, 2012
By:
Karen Nash
| Source: Dermatology Times
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Beginning in 2003, with approval of human collagen and in the following years the introduction of products containing hyaluronic acid, calcium hydroxylapatite, poly-L-lactic acid and more, it's no surprise that fillers have taken on an ever-increasing role in aesthetic dermatology. On Call wondered whether dermatologists' treatment techniques have changed as a result of the growing array of product options, and if so, how.
Date: Feb 1, 2012
By:
Bill Gillette
| Source: Dermatology Times E-News
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Clinical trial results suggest that natural supplement Pycnogenol (Horphag Research), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, improves skin hydration and elasticity in women.
Date: Feb 1, 2012
By:
Eliza Drewa
| Source: Cosmetic Surgery Times
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Ross A. Clevens, M.D., F.A.C.S., a board-certified facial plastic surgeon in Melbourne, Fla., talks of a great industry paradox: "For the most part, we're all men — but for the most part, almost all of our patients are women." Despite being a man, Dr. Clevens says that knowing how to make his male patients happy has been a learning process.
Date: Feb 1, 2012
By:
Zoe Diana Draelos, M.D.
| Source: Dermatology Times
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The p53 gene is very important in dermatology for the prevention of skin cancer. P53 is the gene that is activated when viable epidermal skin cells are damaged by UV radiation. UV radiation strikes the skin and is first transformed to heat by an organic sunscreen and possibly reflected by an inorganic sunscreen. If the sunscreen fails to diffuse all of the damaging UV radiation, keratinocytes function to reflect and scatter the radiation.
Date: Feb 1, 2012
By:
Cheryl Guttman Krader
| Source: Dermatology Times
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Even though botulinum toxin type A is one of the most potent neurotoxins known, its injection into muscles for the reduction of hyperfunctional lines is one of the safest procedures being performed in cosmetic dermatology. And the favorable risk-to-benefit profile of the toxin is fueling its use in an expanding number of off-label applications, says Thomas E. Rohrer, M.D.
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