Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Present address: Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, the University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 1130032, Japan.
Present address: Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 1538902, Japan.
Food Quality Perception & Society Team, iSENSE Lab, Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Sino-Danish College (SDC), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USAuoszczap@andrew.cmu.edu, hellerl@andrew.cmu.edu, seojunj@andrew.cmu.edu, banance@andrew.cmu.edu.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USAuoszczap@andrew.cmu.edu, hellerl@andrew.cmu.edu, seojunj@andrew.cmu.edu, banance@andrew.cmu.edu.
Consultant Neurologist & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK. Electronic address: melissamaguire@nhs.net.
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. sarahrahmat@iium.edu.my.
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Optometry and Visual Sciences, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is an anaerobic rod-shaped-neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, that has both therapeutic and lethal applications. BoNT injection is the most popular cosmetic procedure...
Cosmetic procedures involve the maintenance, restoration, or enhancement of one's physical appearance through surgical or medical techniques. Restorative or reconstructive procedures, on the other han...
Cosmetic gynecology is an expanding field with a steep rise in awareness and demand for procedures to enhance the aesthetic appearance of female genitalia....
This article aims to provide an overview of aesthetic gynecology for a practicing dermatologist....
A study conducted in India showed a rising trend in the demand of aesthetic vaginal procedures from 3.9% in 2012 to 28.97% in 2015....
Several aesthetic modalities such as peels, platelet rich plasma, and energy-based devices and surgical modalities have been in use, though serious evidence for efficacy of many of these procedures is...
Treatments for breast cancer can have an array of adverse effects, including hair loss, scarring, and irritated skin. These physical outcomes can, in turn, lead to body image concerns, anxiety, and de...
Skin of color in dermatology encompasses individuals of various ethnic backgrounds including Black or those of African descent, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander, and those ...
Cosmetic procedures for antiaging carry inherent risks of adverse events. One that has not yet been well characterized is transitory or permanent alopecia. This is attributable to numerous mechanisms ...
This review serves to describe the currently known causes of postcosmetic procedure alopecia and the mechanisms by which alopecia is attained. Furthermore, this review highlights the risk of unregulat...
A systematic review of the literature from 2000 to 2022 was conducted looking for keywords such as "alopecia," "cosmetic procedures," "mesotherapy," and "hyaluronic acid" in Google Scholar and PubMed....
Ten articles met the criteria set forth in the authors' literature review. Many of the procedures resulted in partial or complete resolution of alopecia....
Alopecia after cosmetic injection procedures is an underreported adverse effect. More research is needed to further characterize the risk of alopecia after mesotherapy and other injection procedures....
To discuss a case of hyaluronic acid filler displaying as PET avid resulting in a false positive for local recurrence and review of the literature of how filler presents on PET....
Case report and literature review....
Retrospective case review of a patient with angiosarcoma with PET-MRI positivity after hyaluronic acid filler injection. Review of the literature was performed....
A 49-year-old female with low grade angiosarcoma of the right cheek pT1N0M0 was treated with wide local excision and staged reconstruction with cervicofacial advancement flap with subsequent adjuvant ...
Fillers, including hyaluronic acid, are associated with elevated SUV on PET-CT. Otolaryngologists should be aware of these features to improve patient counseling, avoid unnecessary procedures, and red...
In this study, we seek to characterize both the account credentials and content type for posts among the most popular nonsurgical cosmetic procedure hashtags on Instagram....
Twenty-five hashtags related to nonsurgical cosmetic procedures were identified with over 250,000 posts each, ranging from 256,000 to 12.1 million posts per hashtag. The first 10 posts displayed under...
Content creators included nonphysician providers (68%), core cosmetic physicians (12%), noncore cosmetic physicians (8%), and consumers or others (13%). Content type included before and after (45%), s...
High-quality educational content on Instagram from core cosmetic specialties is scarce. By increasing their presence on Instagram, core cosmetic physicians can provide patient education, counteract mi...
Cosmetic enhancing procedures continue to grow in demand. Physicians should understand the complex factors that drive patient motivation for seeking such procedures....
In contrast to a lens of psychopathology, this review reveals the driving power of everyday intrapersonal, social, and behavioral factors that motivate interest in elective facial cosmetic procedures....
The review was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines and included studies with at least 50 adult patients seeking facial cosmetic enhancements between January 1, 2000, and July 1, 2022....
Among 1,239 identified publications, 21 studies with 9,005 participants were selected for inclusion. The review documents everyday factors as patient motivators for pursuing cosmetic enhancements of t...
In summary, this review demonstrates that patient motivations for facial cosmetic enhancements may be best understood through everyday intrapersonal, social, and behavioral factors....
People naturally exhibit a self-serving bias which can be observed in their tendency to judge their own physical attractiveness more favourably than that of others. Despite this positive self-percepti...
