Cosmetic Surgery News Articles

Introduced in the U.S. in the early 1980s, liposuction, also called liposculpture, lipoplasty, or suction lipectomy, is a cosmetic surgery technique developed by cosmetic surgeons to reduce stubborn fat deposits that don’t respond to dieting and exercise. These fatty bulges are most commonly found in the thighs, hips, abdomen, buttocks, knees, ankles, calves and arms.

Dr. Paul Chugay will be presenting a talk at the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (2018 Annual Scientific Meeting) – February 2018 in Las Vegas.

A California plastic surgeon is performing what may well be the most bizarre, and punishing, weight-loss procedure short of an outright limb amputation: tongue patches. Since 2009, Dr. Nikolas Chugay has been suturing stamp-size patches of Marlex mesh to patients’ tongues. The patch makes it painful to eat anything solid. The patient leaves it in…