All Posts Tagged With: "Cosmetic Surgery News"

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has admitted to using Botox. Ramsay claims that he decided to have Botox injections because of a comment made by music mogul Simon Cowell. Unfortunately, Ramsay believes that no-one noticed that he had had the Botox injections.

“Yeah, it’s Simon’s fault,” Ramsay explained in an interview with British newspaper The Daily Mail. “I had lunch with him and he leaned over and started prodding my chin saying, ‘Mate, you’ve got to do something about this’. I was like, ‘F*** off!’

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It has been reported that the number of people in the UK making negligence claims against cosmetic surgeons has increased significantly recently.

Cosmetic surgery negligence is currently at the forefront of many people’s minds following the sad news of the death of Denise Hendry, wife of ex-footballer Colin Hendry, last week. Denise Hendry had liposuction in 2002 and suffered greatly from a number of complications after surgery. In the intervening years, Hendry had to have several corrective surgeries to correct issues arising from the original liposuction surgery. Unfortunately in the last set of surgery, she fell into a coma and her husband made the agonising decision to turn her life support machine off. It is believed that the original cosmetic surgeon may be sued for negligence.

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A chemical in the soil of Easter Island may hold the key to a potent anti-ageing compound. Some scientists are so excited about the anti-ageing discovery that they are hailing the compound as the potential key to an ‘elixir of youth’ and believe that it may help extend the human life span by as much as a decade.

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Ex-footballer Colin Hendry’s wife has died after an operation to fix botched cosmetic surgery.

Denise Hendry had liposuction nearly seven years ago at a private hospital in Preston. The cosmetic surgery punctured her bowel and colon nine times and as a result she suffered from blood poisoning and multiple organ failure.

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The cosmetic surgery market abroad is booming. Over 100,000 people travel to foreign countries for surgery each year and that figure is expected to rise as recession takes hold of Britain – in fact, 87% of those seeking treatment overseas do so to save money.

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Is Botox a cure for baldness? According to one California cosmetic surgeon, it could be.

Dr. Simon Ourian claims that he accidentally stumbled upon the alternative use for Botox whilst treating a patient for migraine. His patient was having chemotherapy which made her hair fall out. She was also suffering from intense migraines. Botox has already been found to help stop migraines in some people so Dr. Ourian injected his patient with the toxin to see if it would help cure the headaches. Botox was injected into the lady’s scalp. After the injections, the lady’s hair started to grow back.

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Recent studies have shown that memory gel breast implants are safer than saline breast implants.

Nowadays when patients undergo breast implant cosmetic surgery, silicone gel is used for the actual implants using a more cohesive gel and a more durable shell than in earlier generations of implant. New studies have now shown that these new-generation gel implants are safer than saline filled alternatives.

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