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Reader Question: Anti-Aging Medicine- Your Opinion?

Posted by admin in Dr D's Truth on November 15, 2012

Do you do anti-aging medicine? I do not see it on your web site. If not, what is your opinion of it?

I am not a fan or follower of the anti-aging medicine fad in so much that it promotes what I believe to be a false concept. An older person cannot be made into a younger version of herself by boosting certain hormones. There is really no good evidence that it works. Patients don’t live any longer. It might also be found to be harmful in the long run.

Plastic surgeons will differ in their opinions as to what works with low risk to improve things. To me it seems more logical to minimize well-known “aging” influences such as sunlight and cigarette smoking. Sunscreens, good skin care and cessation of smoking will likely do more to preserve a patient and that patient’s appearance than the syringes full of hormones and stuff with which an anti-aging doctor will stick you. The addition of cosmetic surgery and/or minor procedures can help as well when used properly.

I am curious as to how these “anti-aging hormone shooting clients” will fare over time.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

Originally posted 2011-07-29 07:30:57.

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Anti-Aging Quack Gets At 25 Year Old Patient

Posted by admin in plastic surgery news on June 7, 2012

…a renowned anti-ageing specialist, has a firm grip on my cheeks. I am perched on a black leather chair in his office — an airy loft  conversion down an immaculate cobbled street in London’s affluent Notting Hill.

He twists my face gently towards light streaming in from a nearby window and peers at my complexion solemnly. ‘Some microdermabrasion is needed definitely,’ he says. His finger brushes my chin. ‘Some scars there. You played with them?’

He’s talking about marks left from a couple of spots I suffered in my teenage years and I find myself cringing like a cornered schoolgirl. The ‘scars’ aren’t visible to the naked eye, no one has ever commented on them

‘I would start with Botox and have it here, here and here,’ he says, pointing to my forehead, the corners of my eyes and between my eyebrows. (Botox is a drug made from botulinum toxin, which is injected to paralyse muscles and temporarily alleviate the wrinkles and lines associated with ageing.)

‘After that, the Dracula therapy…

Source: dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2154147/Just-25-beautiful–So-did-cosmetic-surgeon-tell-India-needs-Botox.html

When you go to an anti-aging doctor in your twenties, some would say you are asking for it. As we have said countless times here, a plastic surgeon is nothing more than a pair of hands operating under a specific philosophy.

Would I tell a 25 year old woman that she “needs” botulinum toxin, peels or Dracula therapy? Of course not. I do not even offer Dracula therapy and no one “needs” cosmetic work least of all a 25 year old woman who is by all appearances in pretty good shape.

Beware the anti-aging trend. :)

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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