Dr. Robert O.'s Posts

E! talk show host Giuliana Rancic chooses double mastectomy for breast cancer treatment. Why this... by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health E! talk show host Giuliana Rancic , recently diagnosed with breast cancer (and having failed an attempt to remove the cancer with a lumpectomy) has decided to proceed wi ... Read on »

NJOM shows sick patients cost more to treat...... Who knew? by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health In the least surprising conclusion of recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine ( N. Engl. J. Med. 2011;365:1704-12 ,) it was proven that older, sicker patients ... Read on »

Where are they now? Even supermodels get old like the rest of us by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health There's a really interesting demonstration of facial aging you can see in a "Where are they now?" slideshow in former supermodels of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's you ca ... Read on »

Victory for Common Sense: FDA drops MRI suggestion for patients with silicone implants by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health BREAKING NEWS: A fairly significant announcement by the USFDA was in the paper today re. silicone gel breast implants (see NYT summary here ). Based on testimony and evi ... Read on »

Groupon's model may be both bad business and illegle for cosmetic medical services by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health The use of social media services like Facebook and Twitter to promote your medical practice on the web has become common in recent years. For today's potential patient ... Read on »

A teachable plastic surgery moment from Wimbledon 2011: Treating the "gummy smile" by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health I was checking Sports Illustrated 's web page to get the updates from Wimbledon and they showed a smiling picture of German, Sabine Lisicki , who'd just won her quarterfinal ... Read on »

SAFE: FDA re-confirms safety of silicone gel breast implants by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health In a not unexpected conclusion, yesterday the United States Food & Drug Administration re-affirmed their 2006 decision to reintroduce silicone gel breast implants into ... Read on »

In office breast cancer surgery, just a matter of time? by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health This is kind of a post I've been sitting on for about 7-8 months that I though would be kind of interesting. Last Fall there was an article in a New York business magazi ... Read on »

Addition by subtraction - Pro tennis player's Simona Halep's breast reduction by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Back in 2009 I wrote a post titled " Pro tennis player Simona Halep's cups no longer runneth over ." (yes I was making bad puns then too) which highlighted WTA tenni ... Read on »

Putting a stake thru the routine MRI screening of silicone gel breast implants by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health When the USFDA lifted a nearly 2 decade moratorium on the use of silicone gel breast implants for cosmetic surgery indications in 2006, there were two puzzling things a ... Read on »

Tickle Lipo is now here at Plastic Surgery Sepcialists by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Rob I am typically one of the biggest buzzkills for technology in plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine, particularly when it involves body contouring. As I've written a ... Read on »

Laugh of the day: Your typical plastic surgery ER consult during residency by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health One of the most grueling things during surgical training is emergency room call, where you have to make yourself available for services 24/7. In plastic surgery there are 2 ... Read on »

Crazy Eyes: Adventures in Eye doctors doing breast surgery part deux by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health While it's hard to top the debacle I wrote about in Atlanta where an eye surgeon nearly boxed someone trying to do a breast augmentation surgery in his office, I came across ... Read on »

Plastic Surgery Specialists of Birmingham's new website is Live! by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Our practice's totally redesigned website has gone live today! Check us out on the web at Plastic Surgery Specialists. We hope to more fully realize the technology availab ... Read on »

Ways to (nearly) ruin your life 101 - Choosing an Atlanta eye doctor to do your breast... by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health This summer there was an awful instance of medical negligence in Georgia involving an eye-doctor (opthamologist) who had major complications while attempting to perform brea ... Read on »

Why is breast cancer reconstruction surgery with implants done in multiple stages? "Baby Steps" by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health From time to time you will get asked by breast cancer patients whether their reconstruction surgery can be done all in one stage at the time of mastectomy. The answer is you ... Read on »

Latisse (the eyelash drug) has been a raging clinical success by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Quick thought of the day After dispensing Allergan's Latisse medication for enhancing eyelash growth for over a year now, I'm officially impressed. It is hand's down the si ... Read on »

When is a medical record not a medical record? When the Obama adminstration get's PC with it by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health If the roll out of 21st century health care could have been more poorly handled, I'm not sure how. From a slow bleed over the spring involving an ill-conceived re-imaginat ... Read on »

What to look for for well done breast augmentation surgery -The inframammary fold by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Sorry for the long break! We've been busy designing our practice's new web site. It's gonna POP! Stay Tuned. This post is kind of an "inside baseball" topic about what su ... Read on »

Use it or lose it: study shows consistant BOTOX use can allow longer results by Dr. Robert O. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Skin Health Confirming what many Plastic Surgeons have noticed, a study just published suggests that patients who maintain their treatments with BOTOX for several years need fewer tre ... Read on »