You have arrived. You really have. You’ve hit the best website for information about your appearance. In this Internet era, straight talking, unbiased info is hard to find. But you found it. YouBeauty.com will present you with the wisdom of Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz and….me.”¨I’m a board certified plastic surgeon with a varied background in clinical medicine, surgery and research. I’ve published scientific papers and book chapters and enjoy translating complex science into words that my mother can understand. Since my radio days in college, I’ve spent over three decades doing this in print, on radio, TV and the Internet. (Now I feel old.)Along the way, I spent three decades performing tens of thousands of operations, sewing up miles of wounds and sucking tons of fat.  Somewhere wedged between all those breast augmentations, I was appointed by New Jersey‘s Governor to the Board of Medical Examiners, regulating the doctors in the state and seeing medicine from an entirely different perspective.”¨On this site, I’m going to bring you news and information about cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgery is one of the few consumer-driven fields in medicine. New procedures often debut on the 6 o’clock news, not in medical journals. Plastic surgery has become big business, with billion dollar wrinkle-killing drugs and $200,000 computer-driven laser gizmos determined to flatten your belly, if not your wallet. It is a field that is becoming increasingly difficult for doctors to wade through, no less consumers.That’s where I come in. I’ve made a career of taking a conservative, skeptical approach to plastic surgery. I am not easily swayed by today’s wonder procedure.  In order for me to endorse a new drug, procedure, or operation, it has to be either better than the procedure I am currently performing, or have a lower complication rate or be unique in some way.  Or maybe it will be the same, but just cost less (OK, that’s just fantasy…).”¨I’ve written the book, “Straight Talk about Cosmetic Surgery”, and this column will bring you just that—straight talk. No fluff. No garbage.”¨Here’s some of what we will be talking about in the upcoming weeks. I’ll be investigating that brand new Botox-like drug called Xeomin. I’ll talk about the truths and myths of skin creams. I’ll tell you what works and what’s useless. We’ll compare the different wrinkle fillers out there and I’ll help you decide which one is right for you. Or maybe a filler isn’t the answer—maybe you need a peel or a laser. Or maybe that newfangled high-energy ultrasound skin lifting treatment has your name on it.”¨We’ll consider why, oh why, the press is gaga about buttock implants, when only 800 Americans had the procedure last year. And we’ll delve into all of those breast augmentation procedures—through the breast, through the armpit, through the belly button, oh my.  And do you think the “mommy makeover” procedure, the tummy tuck/breast augmentation combo, is really safe or a recipe for disaster?”¨We’ll even look at the safety of things you take for granted. Like makeup and even spider vein injections. And we’ll help you choose which procedures are terrific and which are just a lot of hype. And so much more.”¨I can’t wait to get started. I hope you’ll join me, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz.  Visit this site often. Check it out before you go under the knife. You’ll be glad you did…

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