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Techniques
- Where do you find the latest/newest techniques, and how do you train on them as you’re offering them to patients?
- How creative do you allow yourself to be in developing new ideas/techniques, and did that change based on your outward success or inward comfort level?
Surgical versus injectables
- patient selection
- Do you ever use injectables as a bridge to surgery or a trial of the look
- Lip lift vs lip flip
- Surgical lip lift originally described in 1970 designed to resuspend the lip to achieve upper tooth exposure in older patients with long upper lips
- Newer lip flip is more focused on the appearance of volume. Where to inject, and how large of results do you see?
- Technique on lip fillers – Vertical injections versus horizontal, how to avoid the labial artery etc, how much
- Liquid rhinoplasty
- Dorsal hump
- Tip rotation
- Alar asymmetries/irregularities
- Tips for injectables – avoiding complications in high-risk areas
- Eye – lid drop
- Nose – tip necrosis, blindness
- Lips – pain, contour irregularities
Business
- how do you stay up to date?
- Social media presence and growth
- Choosing what to publish
Social media beauty distortion
- Exposure to a specific image (like a mirrored “selfie”) and positive self image influences how people “recognize” images of themselves
- Media exposure and vicarious surgery experience predicted greater likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery
Success & Diversity
- gender and ethnicity
- women in leadership positions
- family and children
- existing barriers to recruiting a more diverse workforce
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