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French twin brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were hugely popular on French television during the 1980s thanks to their boyish good looks

There’s no denying that cosmetic procedures can completely transform someone’s appearance, and that seems to be the case with the Bogdanoff twins.

Igor and Grichka, 71, look unrecognisable nowadays – compared to when they first found fame on French television back in the 1970s.

The brothers – who were raised by their maternal grandmother in her castle in southern France – reportedly had their first round of plastic surgery in the 1990s.

Although they were once known for their good looks, the duo are now barely recognisable.

In 2010 it was reported that Igor and Grichka had both had a number of chin and cheek implants, as well as Botox and fillers.

As a result, the siblings have regularly been called “freakish” and described as “cat people” by the media.

Their stretched faces bear many similarities to the look of socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, who was dubbed the “Bride of Wildenstein”.

However, it has been reported that Igor and Grichka have always denied an over-indulgence in having plastic surgery.

Some of their fans to this day believe they are suffering from acromegaly – a serious medical condition linked with pituitary gland disorder which makes bones of the skull and extremities increase in size.

According to US statistics, the number of males having plastic surgery has steadily increased.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ annual report for 2019 says 18.1 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures were performed in the United States alone last year.

This compares with 13 million in 2011, and the top five procedures were breast augmentation followed by liposuction, eyelid surgery, nose reshaping and facelifts.

As well as their changing appearance, Igor and Grichka are also known for being television presenters, producers and scientific essayists.

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DENVER, CO (KDVR) — Dr. Geoffrey Kim, a plastic surgeon involved in a controversial breast implant case, has admitted to “unprofessional conduct” in the case of teenager Emmalyn Nguyen. He will be on probation for three years according to an agreement reached with the Colorado Medical Board late last month.

Kim’s medical license was suspended Jan. 9, but the new agreement, effective Feb. 27, allows Kim to immediately resume practicing medicine, with certain restrictions.

In addition to having his medical license on probation for three years, Kim also agreed to complete a medical education program, only perform surgical procedures with a licensed anesthesiologist onsite, and complete an ethics program.

In the agreement, Kim admitted on Aug. 1 during a breast augmentation procedure he was performing on the 18-year-old, Nguyen went into cardiac arrest and began turning blue after receiving anesthesia from a certified nurse anesthetist.

Kim began CPR and resuscitated the teen, but she never regained consciousness. According to the agreement, Kim “did not contact emergency personnel to transport (Nguyen) to the hospital following the asystolic arrest for approximately five hours.”

Nguyen, who was a graduate of Mountain Range High School, remains in a minimally conscious state, unable to speak, walk or feed herself. She needs around the clock care.

“This has to be the hardest thing anyone could go through,” said her mother, Lynn Fam.

The family has filed a lawsuit against Kim.

The license agreement between Kim and the state calls for the doctor to pass a course which includes information on anesthesia reactions and a focus on the culture of safety.

He will also have to complete an ethics program within the next year.

If Kim complies with the conditions of his probation, he can have his license restored to “unrestricted” status after three years have elapsed.

Kim’s attorney, Kari Hershey, previously told CBS4, “As a physician, Dr. Kim is not at liberty to comment about any specific patient.”

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That’s Dr. Michael Salzhauer, the sometimes controversial South Florida plastic surgeon also known as “Dr. Miami” on social media.

Salzhauer stars in a new reality series of the same name, “Dr. Miami,” which follows him, his staff and the patients who see him for Brazilian butt-lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, tummy tucks and other procedures at his Bay Harbor Islands practice. The six-episode series, which was produced by Miami-based 2C Originals, will debut at 10 p.m. March 31 on the WE tv cable network.

Network officials said Salzhauer seemed like a natural for his own show. The man who has called himself “Dr. Schnoz” has been known in recent years for his social media following and his marketing strategies, which have drawn complaints from some groups such as the Anti-Defamation League of Florida.

In 2008, he wrote a children’s book, “My Beautiful Mommy,” promoting plastic surgery. In 2012, he hired a rock band to make a video called, “Jewcan Sam (A Nose Job Love Song)”, about a teenage boy who gets a nose job to attract a girl.

For the past two years, he also has been broadcasting his surgeries on Snapchat, inviting viewers to see him in action.

“A surgeon using Snapchat and other social platforms to literally bring fans into the operating room represents a bold and fresh twist that connects old and new media,” said We tv President Marc Juris in an email.

For his Snapchat surgeries, Salzhauer dresses up in viking, pirate and other costumes.

“I’m a goofy guy,’’ said Salzhauer from his office on a recent Thursday morning. “I’ve got this wacky personality that I was born with that people find entertaining.”

The WE tv show aims to capture that zaniness as he meets with patients.

“We love this show because Dr. Salzhauer is a completely unique and authentic individual who is at the top of his profession and using social media in an innovative and powerful way,” Juris added.

Each episode follows two patients and their before-and-after progress.

“I hope that [viewers] understand that plastic surgery is a normal part of everyday modern life. I hope the show educates and entertains people,” he said.

Cameras also show his clients with their loved ones as they share their concerns about the procedures. In the first episode, a woman named Ashley gets pre-surgery jitters and wants to back out of having her “mommy makeover,” which includes breast implants and a tummy tuck. Her best friend encourages her to be a new version of herself.

Although there will be some TV personalities on his show, including cast members from WE tv’s “My Life Is A Telenovela” and the Oxygen network’s “Bad Girls Club,” Salzhauer said most of his patients are everyday folks looking to better themselves. On the show, he calls them “beauty warriors.”

“It takes a lot of courage to go to a plastic surgeon in the first place, to admit you are not comfortable in your own body,’’ he said. “It is like going into battle. It involves risks, bruising, swelling and a healing period. I am proud of my beauty warriors.

“I am a beauty warrior,” said the father of five, who has had a nose job and a chin implant.

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Plastic surgery clients are trending younger globally, and doctors and psychologists are pointing to the rise of social media as playing a role.

According to a report in the South China Morning Post, not only is the number of aesthetic plastic surgery cases—including cosmetic procedures like rhinoplasty, facelifts, and lip augmentations—on the rise globally, but the average age of clients is also dropping. Of the 22 million Chinese who underwent cosmetic procedures in 2018, clients under age 28 accounted for 54% (nearly 12 million) of patients. Teenagers, meanwhile, accounted for 8% of total procedures. Comparatively, in western European nations, the average age dropped from 42 to 37 in 2018; in the US, over 200,000 teens aged 13 to 19 had aesthetic plastic surgery in 2017, but only made up 1% of total US procedures.

Doctors, surgeons, and psychiatrists are pointing to selfie-led social media culture as driving the rise of aesthetic surgery among young people. That’s a departure from what surgeons say marked plastic surgery trends of the early aughts, when people brought in pictures of celebrities and models and asked for features to better match them.

Julian De Silva, a plastic surgeon based in London’s Harley Street, confirmed to SCMP that social media “is heavily influencing plastic surgery trends and cosmetic treatments.” In the last five years, he’s noticed that “patients are taking more photos of themselves than ever, and as a result they are far more self-conscious about their appearance. Flaws they would previously have ignored have, since the advent of social media, plagued them.”

“Snapchat dysmorphia,” a phenomenon coined in a 2018 paper published in a JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery Viewpoint by Boston University researchers, refers to a trend in which people are bringing plastic surgeons their own heavily doctored or filtered selfies, and requesting to look more like their photos. The report noted that 55% of plastic surgeons cite seeing patients who want to improve their appearance in selfies, a request that comes more often from teens, who are more frequent social media users than older adults.

Although Snapchat dysmorphia is not an official mental disorder listed in the DSM, the report highlighted its similarities to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a disorder classified on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum characterized by people going to great, often harmful lengths, to hide perceived imperfections and affects roughly 2% of Americans.

Indeed, the negative effects social media can have on mental health and wellbeing are well documented. A 2017 survey by Britain’s Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), a health education charity, ranked Instagram as the #1 worst social media network for its associations with anxiety and depression, with Snapchat following closely behind. Following the RSPH survey, research from Carmen Papaluca of Notre Dame revealed a connection between Instagram and mental health, particularly in young, female Instagram users. Specifically, findings from the study reported that women in their late teens and early 20s found that the app negatively impacted body image.

And the rise of selfie culture has coincided with a greater access to cosmetic beauty procedures. In the US, wrinkle-reducer Botox and dermal filler Juvéderm are being marketed to 20-somethings over its core clientele, women over 40. Meanwhile, a wave of Instagram-friendly clinics like Alchemy 43, Kate Somerville, and Skin Laundry have popularized medical beauty treatments, including services like Botox, fillers, lip injections, and laser treatments, for the under-30 crowd.

The SCMP notes that a 2018 report released by Chinese cosmetic procedure platform Gengmei found that the number of cosmetic surgery clinics opening last year increased by 10% compared with 2017. And according to the Chinese online magazine Sixth Tone, Gengmei and its competitor, the cosmetic-surgery social app SoYoung, saw their communities skyrocket, with the former noting that 36 million users and 20,000 certified surgeons joined the app in the past few years. Sixth Tone also notes that Chinese clients are likely influenced by neighboring South Korea, where European and K-pop beauty standards—big eyes, slim noses, etc.—are pervasive, and about one-third of women under 30 have had plastic surgery. Indeed, double-eyelid surgery, a procedure that seeks to produce bigger, Western-looking eyes, has become a common 18th birthday present.

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, June 18, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — A facelift, scientifically known as a rhytidectomy, is a surgical cosmetic procedure that helps make a face look tighter, firmer and well, younger. This procedure results in significant reduction in wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin, while tightening and accentuating other features such as the firmer jawline, and more defined chin and cheekbones.

A rhytidectomy involves the process of pulling back flaps of skin on each side of the face so as to tighten the skin. The process also includes tissue alteration, which is responsible for making the face glow and appear fresher. These pulled flaps are then stitched and the excess skin removed, thus contouring the face and ridding it of any and all signs of aging. Mostly, facelifts are accompanied by neck lifts in order to achieve an overall, even skin texture.

To explain this procedure, medical doctor and surgeon Tansar N. Mir, MD has published an informational article on this subject in an easy-to-understand way. The complete article will be published on the Blog of Dr. Mir

Facelifts are well received by both celebrities and common people alike because of their high success rate and noticeable results. Anyone and everyone who is struggling with aging signs such as losing elasticity, fat deposition, and skin sagging can benefit from this cosmetic procedure.

Risks and Complications

Like most surgeries, face lifting, too has certain risks and complications. These include both long term as well as short term implications, such as:

* Hematoma
Face lifting procedures can often result in hematomas; this is when the blood collects under the facial skin and causes swelling, congestion, pain, and builds up pressure. It is among the most frequent and common complications of rhytidectomy.
* Scarring
A rhytidectomy may also cause scars from the incisions. Although these scars are normally permanent, they are usually in areas that conceal them, such as the hairline area or at the back of the ears.
* Nerve injury
Perhaps one of the most serious and dangerous complications of this surgical procedure is possible nerve injury. In case a nerve is injured during the surgery, it may temporarily or even permanently affect the sensory nerve endings affecting the sensations, movements as well as the touch senses of the facial muscles. It may also cause facial paralysis.
Other than these complications, face lifting procedures also pose additional risks such as hair loss, skin loss, excessive bleeding, infection, allergic reaction to anesthesia, etc.

How It’s Done

A Rhytidectomy is not as complicated as it once used to be. A facelift surgery now involves a number of basic steps that need to be followed before the procedure takes place. The pre-surgery steps include a medical history and general health exam, medication review, and facial examination. Most surgeons nowadays also hold a consultation session where they suggest possible outcomes to the patient and review the patient’s expectations.

Once the patient has had the facelift surgery, he/she might experience mild to moderate pain and have swelling and bruising on and around the face. Drainage from incisions may also occur, and they may feel that their face is numb. These are all normal as long as the patient can move and feel their facial muscles move.

If you are one of the many people struggling with your sagging skin and want a boost to your physical appearance, you can opt for a rhytidectomy procedure. The results generally last up to ten years.

About Dr. Tansar Naveed Mir

Dr. Tansar N. Mir is a plastic & reconstructive surgeon in New York. Dr. Mir received his Doctorate of Medicine with Recognition in Research from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine after graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience. Dr. Mir completed his internship and residency in General Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY and his residency/fellowship in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery with the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group through Nassau University Medical Center. Dr. Mir is a double board-certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

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Post-pregnancy “mommy makeover” procedures — a plastic surgery combo of liposuction, tummy tuck and a breast lift or augmentation — have been popular for years, but now men of a certain age are shelling out for what some experts are dubbing the “daddy do-over.”

For “dad,” the surgeries typically include liposuction of the chest, abs and flanks (sides and back), and it’s becoming more popular with New York men trying to get an edge at work — and on the beach. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that more than 1.3 million cosmetic procedures were performed on people identifying as male in 2018, an increase of 29% since 2000. While this study doesn’t confirm that any of these men are actually “dads,” the demographics suggest these men are experiencing the effects of “dad bod” and want a fix — stat.

“For women, they are obviously experiencing the physical changes that come with pregnancy and having a baby, but for men, it’s more about the change in lifestyle that having children brings, as well as the typical factors that come with aging,” Dr. Alan Matarasso, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, tells The Post. “At around age 35, fat distribution in both genders changes. Even if your weight stays the same. Being a parent exacerbates it.”

Matarasso says he’s seen more men at his Upper East Side practice requesting all sorts of cosmetic procedures. In 2018, according to the report, the most popular procedures for men were injectibles (toxins and fillers), breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tucks, rhinoplasty (nose jobs) and eyelid surgery.

“After having kids, your life changes,” Matarasso says.”Maybe you used to go play basketball every Sunday and burn 1,000 calories and now you’re at the Central Park Zoo on Sunday instead. Without those basketball Sundays, you could gain a pound a month and it becomes harder and harder to lose it later in life. Some of my patients won’t even put on a T-shirt. They tell me they feel like they have a B-cup. That’s why we’re calling it the ‘daddy do-over.’ ”

One of Matarasso’s patients, a 57-year-old Hell’s Kitchen restaurateur who asked to be identified only as Russell, says he wanted to look good at the beach.

Russell had Botox and fillers in the past but never invasive surgery until January, where he underwent a version of the “daddy do-over,” with liposuction of the chest, flanks and abdomen. Although he says he was never a heavy guy and was always in good shape, he started to notice weight around his waist that wouldn’t go away. The doctors told him the full results wouldn’t appear for five months, but just three weeks after surgery, he was shirtless on the beach and says, “I look better than I did when I was 30.”

He wants to do his neck next.

“I want to age gracefully while spending $30,000 a year on cosmetic treatments,” Russell says with a laugh.

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