Category: Industry Insight

Many people are quick to judge others who undergo cosmetic surgery as being an active choice purely for vanity. Yet as a Plastic Surgeon we quickly learn not to judge our patients and learn to understand their motivations and reasons for wanting to have parts of their body addressed. There may be many reasons, but […]

If you are thinking about a facelift, it can be bewildering and overwhelming when you start researching your options. You will hear terms such as SMAS, short scar, long scar, full facelift, composite facelift, deep plane, mini-facelift, MACS lifts and many more. To be honest, even plastic surgeons do not universally agree on the terms […]

As a significant part of my private practice is composed of aesthetic breast surgery I decided to launch a parallel website solely devoted to plastic surgery to the breast. This can be found at www.breastplasticsurgeon.net, and I hope by devoting a site purely to breast, breast blogs and breast plastic surgery information, I will be […]

It’s been a busy time with lots of breast augmentations recently – with excellent, reliable and predictable results. Due to the wealth of research data, we know know that smooth round implants when placed under the muscle offer low short and long term complication rates, produce excellent aesthetic results and behave very naturally. Furthermore, studies have […]

Whilst it might not immediately be obvious, plastic surgery is quite a seasonal type of intervention. Whilst I am busy all year round, there are certain procedures that are always more in demand at certain times of year. As a rule, this time of year is very popular for breast surgery – with the thought […]

I felt my heart sink a little while ago during a breast augmentation consult – very near the beginning of the consultation the young lady sitting across from me said (and I quote); “well, all my friends have 280s or 300s, so I want at least 350s so I can have bigger implants than all […]

In December the annual winter meeting of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons took place at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. It was a superb high calibre meeting, and I feel we in the UK have learnt a lot from our colleagues abroad in how to set up and run […]

In November I was an invited speaker at the annual conference of COSRT (The College of Sex and Relationship Therapists – http://www.cosrt.org.uk/) where I discussed the psychology surrounding plastic surgery jointly with Dr Bo Mills, the renowned consultant specialising in intrapsychic and interpersonal intimacy. The conference, entitled, “Physiological causes and treatment options in sex therapy […]

This week we welcome Drs Claude LeLouarn, Fritz Barton and Alexis Verpaele to London for the annual BAAPS meeting, world leaders in their field. The focus will be on facial aesthetic surgery, with a real insight into the way this area is developing. I had some very interesting conversations with Claude LeLouarn in Geneva at […]

Only 1-week to go until the biennial ISAPS meeting. It appears to be a really well organised conference, even with an iPhone App to help navigate around the venue and plan what talks to attend!  It is a full-on conference, with lectures and masterclasses beginning at 7am, and the days going on for up to […]

September is a busy conference month for Mr Pacifico – at the beginning of the month he will be going to the biennial conference of the International Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS) for a superb meeting covering all aspects of aesthetic and cosmetic surgery, including facelifts, breast surgery, surgery following massive weight loss and […]

I’ve just had the proofs back from the publishers for the paper that I wrote with a Faiza Hassan on the risk of finding a previously unsuspected breast cancer in breast reduction surgery. We analysed nearly 1,400 patients and found a breast cancer rate of 0.65%. These were mainly confined to women who had previously […]