ChiQui Beaut? Facial Masks in Line for Summer Time

Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) August 2, 2010

Summer is here, and so are vacations, traveling plans, and inconvenient skin blemishes. While others face dehydration on planes, trains, and automobiles, ChiQu? Beaut? users can open one of ChiQu? Beaut? hydrating facial masks, and in minutes, let dry skin absorb all the vitamins, herbal extracts, and moist-24 needed to arrive at their destinations with glowing, radiant skin.

ChiQui Beaut??s facial mask comes in an easy to use form, making users ready for lift-off to a relaxing, 15 minute spa experience in less time than it takes to buckle a seat belt.

For mud lovers, just one try of ChiQu? Beaut? Mud to Go spa purifying glacial mud masks, complete with a specially formulated scent, is guaranteed to feel like a resort spa experience. It deeply cleanses and exfoliates the skin by absorbing all the impurities such as blackheads and excessive oil, leaving the skin smooth and pleased.

And for those returning from a few too many beach days, ChiQu? Beaut? Mud to Go youth restore lightening mud masks can chill that burned skin out. Its cucumber extract provides a cooling sensation, restoring the skin?s collagen and complexion.

All ChiQu? Beaut? facial masks are Paraben?Free and Preservative?Free, making them suitable for sensitive skin as well as tough thick skin. And because ChiQu? Beaut? masks are packaged in convenient travel packs, they are ready to be enjoyed whenever, wherever.

And what's more - Buy 1 Box of ChiQu? Beaut? Mud to Go, and get 1 Box of ChiQu? Beaut? Citrus Happy Free! Just use coupon code: CBFREECITRUS This promotion is also available at local dealers, check with your medspas or beauty shops.

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Study Shows Women Battling Breast Cancer Now Have New Option for Reconstruction at the Same Time as Mastectomy

(PRWEB) August 02, 2011

Cassileth One-Stage Breast Reconstruction offers customized, natural looking breasts immediately after one surgery.

For the first time, women can now wake up from a double mastectomy with customized breasts with virtually no scars. This new procedure was reviewed in a recently released study entitled ?One-Stage Immediate Breast Reconstruction With Implants? published in the "Annals of Plastic Surgery."

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. More women are opting for mastectomy with reconstruction. In 2010 more than 250,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in America. Last year, 93,083 reconstructive surgeries were performed. That?s an eight percent rise from the 78,832 in 2000. The majority of these women are choosing reconstruction with implants.

There was a time when women had to wake up from the mastectomy enduring the trauma of having no breasts. Then in ?90s a two-stage option of tissue-expander reconstruction became available. Today immediate implants at the time of reconstruction have become an option with limited use. The current immediate implant option offers women up to a 200-gram breast size reconstruction. So if a woman is a 750- gram breast size, she is forced to go smaller with the current one-stage procedure. The alternative is the painful process of the two-stage tissue expander procedure that involves expanding the skin with a temporary implant placed during the mastectomy followed by the additional fear and anxiety that a woman endures for the second surgery to place the permanent implant ?until now.

Dr. Lisa Cassileth, a reconstruction surgeon specialist in Beverly Hills, uses acellular dermal matrix (healthy donor tissue) to build an internal customized bra that can hold a silicone implant of any size. Dr. Cassileth sculpts the two-dimensional sheets of tissue into a three-dimensional bra-like shape that mirror the natural shape of the breast and then she tailors the tissue to the woman?s body-type, size and measurements. This eliminates the flat bump-like appearance that characterizes the current immediate implant approach. During the mastectomy, she works side-by-side with the oncologist to reconstruct the breasts and make tiny incisions. Post surgery, she conceals the incisions with a nipple reconstruction to erase any reminders of the mastectomy.

Dr. Cassileth conducted the study on 43 women and a total of 78 breasts. According to the study based on the judgments of patients and independent observers, this one-stage immediate reconstruction is superior in aesthetic outcome. Dr. Cassileth?s patients are even trading their older models, for newer, bigger, perkier breasts that they report are better looking than their own. This new option minimizes recovery time, costs, discomfort and psychological adjustment that accompany the current two-stage tissue expander procedure.

Survey studies report that an important factor in the choice for mastectomy is fear of recurrence. Studies also reported that the choice for conservation of the breast was due to a concern about the cosmetic outcome. This latest One-Stage Immediate Breast Reconstruction provides women for the first time with a solution to prevent breast cancer recurrence without sacrificing the aesthetics.

We have two patients who could really help tell this story. Alice Crisci is 31. She is young, frank and honest in sharing her story about dealing with the repercussions of breast cancer and her new set of breasts. Mary Beth De Lucia is 52 and shares her story of finding Dr. Cassileth to do the one-stage immediate reconstruction instead of having to endure the two-stage expanders to achieve her natural breast-size after the mastectomy.????

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AzaClear, Azelaic Acid Cream Available in the United States for the First Time as an Over-the-Counter Cosmeceutical

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2011

Azelaic acid cream is known as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent when marketed as an Rx cream for skin disorders such as acne, rosacea and skin pigmentation. AzaClear is a patent-pending high potency cosmetic azelaic acid cream that is available to patients through aesthetic physicians' offices. In addition, patients can now obtain the same cream through the company's web site, http://www.azaclear.com, but only with a physician's prescription. Azaclear brings the known cosmetic benefits of azelaic acid technology within easier reach of patients. In addition, Epikinetics Pharma llc states Azaclear, by complexing azelaic acid with niacinamide, make their product particularly effective for improving the appearance of problem and aging skin.

In some regards, Azaclear claims to best even the Rx pharmaceutical versions of azelaic acid cream.The unique patent-pending complexing of azelaic acid and the B vitamin, niacinamide, is said to eliminate skin irritation, something the Rx brands of azelaic acid have noted in clinical trials as a troublesome side effect.

Azaclear is also being distributed in Asia and the E.U., popular because it does not rely on hydroquinone to lighten dark pigmentation. Although hydroquinone is a popular skin bleaching agent in the U.S., most Asian countries and the E.U. ban the substance due to toxicity concerns.

According to Epikinetics Pharma llc, Azaclear was designed as a green cosmeceutical product too. Azelaic acid is derived from whole grain. Niacinamide, the other essential ingredient of Azaclear, is a form of naturally occurring B vitamin.

Epikinetics Pharma llc, in order to distance themselves from typical cosmetic manufacturing practices, requires Azaclear to be produced only in FDA registered and inspected facilities in the U.S.A., much like typical pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Epikinetics Pharma llc was founded by a dermatologist. The Azaclear formulation, unique in the crowed cosmeceutical market, required many years of clinical trials to perfect. It marks the introduction of physician driven cosmeceutical marketing that emphasizes product performance and quality, emulating more the pharmaceutical trade rather than what we've come to expect from the cosmetic industry.

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Dr. Babak Larian Announces That The Micro Parotidectomy Minimally Invasive Surgery Technique Reduces Recovery Time & Scarring

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

The micro parotidectomy minimally invasive surgery technique pioneered by Dr. Babak Larian significantly reduces recovery time in scarring for patients suffering from Parotid gland problems.

Dr. Babak Larian, of the CENTER for Advanced Head & Neck Surgery in Beverly Hills, routinely sees patients from Southern California, as well as nationally and internationally due to his expertise and pioneering in minimally invasive surgery technique for the treatment of sinus, thyroid, parathyroid, salivary glands and throat disorders. His minimally invasive techniques are beneficial to patients because it speeds the recovery time and minimizes scarring, which is important for patients who need surgery on their face and neck. Furthermore, most procedures can now be done as outpatient, without the need for hospitalization. Dr. Larian specializes in all types of minimally invasive surgery and treatments for the head and neck region, including minimally invasive thyroidectomy, minimally invasive parathyroidectomy, and minimally invasive parotidectomy.

Since Dr. Larian specializes in head and neck surgeries, it is important to him to provide his patients with the smallest scar possible. ?The head and neck are the most visible areas on the body and patients are always concerned with the scar they will be left with after surgery. I take great pride in being able to minimize the resulting surgical scar through using the most advanced and minimally invasive surgery techniques,? said Dr. Larian. Minimally invasive surgeries have revolutionized the treatments for many head and neck surgeries, and result in less discomfort, quicker recovery and better outcomes than traditional surgery techniques.

To treat thyroid disorders, Dr. Larian performs a minimally invasive thyroidectomy. He uses endoscopic surgical techniques to perform the procedure through an incision that is approximately one inch long, leaving an almost invisible scar. The endoscope not only minimizes the scar and trauma to the tissue, but it also magnifies the tissue so the laryngeal nerve and parathyroid glands are highly visible.

Dr. Larian is one of the few surgeons in the country who has the expertise to perform minimally invasive parathyroidectomy surgeries to treat hyperparathyroidism, a parathyroid disorder. His surgical technique allows him to access the parathyroid through a very small incision, less than an inch. This approach significantly reduces the risk of surgical complications.

Additionally, Dr. Larian is an expert at superficial parotidectomy, a surgical procedure to remove a parotid gland. The superficial parotidectomy only removes the superficial lobe of the grand and presents less risk to the surrounding facial nerve branches. Since this procedure is so minimally invasive, it is performed as an outpatient surgery, allowing most patients to return home the same day.

Dr. Babak Larian, the Chairman and the Director of the CENTER for Advanced Head & Neck Surgery in Los Angeles, is a highly experienced and reputable, board-certified ear, head and neck surgeon, specializing in ear, nose and throat surgery. Dr. Larian is nationally renowned for his expertise in minimally invasive surgery techniques in the treatment of sinus, thyroid, parathyroid, salivary glands and throat disorders.

For more information about the CENTER please visit http://www.LarianMD.com

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