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Dr. Monks, 1898: “A young woman of 20 was referred to me some time ago. Two years previously she had a fall upon the ice, which had apparently caused a permanent depression of the nose. A celluloid piece was inserted through an incision below the nasal tip; the patient was very well satisfied.”

From 1904, a patient with Parry Romberg disease, an illness characterized by progressive facial atrophy, treated with sequential paraffin injections. Paraffin ultimately resulted in chronic inflammatory reactions, leading to its cessation by the early 1910’s.

Found this 1903 copy of the Medical Record. In it, you can find the first report of vision loss resulting from a cosmetic filler injection. This complication, now witnessing a sharp increase in the 21st century, arose from an injection of paraffin into the nasal dorsum.

1899 Broadway Magazine, full of Victorian glamour and interesting stories; what a cool find. It also has an entire article on plastic surgery, with some impressive photos. The last photo of the girl “with a man’s nose” (🙄🤦🏻‍♂️) is still quite “sus” to me, especially the size of that mole.

You can either work hard to become good at what you do or strive to be good at hiding how mediocre you are.

Humans won’t have to fight AI because they’ll merge with it — witness the birth of the new specialty of Bionic Neuroprosthetic Surgery.

This patient underwent total facial rejuvenation with a combined approach; she’s 3 months post operative here. We employed an endoscopically-assisted, bi-planar trichophytic brow lift along with a bi-lamellar High-SMAS lift, platysmal plication, and full face fractional CO2 laser skin resurfacing.

In today’s history: Justinus Kerner (1786-1862), a German physician credited with the discovery of botulinum toxin. Kerner subjected himself to botulinum – which he ingested orally – risking exposure to tens of thousands of Botox units and near-certain death. (For reference, frown line dose is 20u)

Today we performed reconstructive surgery on a nasal tip defect incurred from skin cancer removal. The technique employed has existed for thousands of years essentially unchanged. It was first published in the western literature in 1794, in the "Gentleman's Magazine". The patient is doing very well.

This is the ADORE technique, a novel treatment approach that employs dermal fillers to improve the resiliency of the dermis rather than “fill wrinkles”. The outcome is a natural reduction in the severity of lines. Additive Orthodiagonal Rhytidoplasty of the Ergotrid (ADORE).

This is a before & after photo from 1902 showing the result of cheek filler (paraffin) in a female patient. This is 100 years before modern fillers, 80 years before the first wave of collagen fillers. Facial fillers pre-date even facelift surgery. From Robinson EP. 1902 NY State J. of Med 2:150-2.

The selfless of today are the founders of tomorrow. #PayItForward