Plastic Surgery and Skin Care

Twenty years ago, plastics surgeons and dermatologists performed very different roles. The surgeon would take care of nose jobs, liposuction and the very radical, face lift, while the dermatologist would handle skin care, checking moles and taking care of things like rashes. My, how the times have changed!

Today, our society has increasingly become youth-obsessed. More Westerners than ever are flocking to day spas, dermatology clinics and plastic surgeons for everything from Botox injections, to chemical peels to seaweed facials. Somewhere along this line the two once-separate fields merged and now we have a never-ending supply of choices from radical procedures to minor topical ones. Read more