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Emerging Trends Discussed at American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's Annual Meeting

NEW YORK, May 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New techniques and devices for surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic enhancement are being introduced at a rapid pace, but do these innovations really deliver what they promise? Are the results of minimally invasive treatments, offering the benefit of little or no downtime, comparable to more extensive procedures? Are these new modalities safe and cost-effective for patients? These are the questions that leading aesthetic plastic surgeons will explore during the Hot Topics seminar at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), May 2-6 in San Diego, CA.

"Presentations at the annual Hot Topics seminar focus on some of the most intriguing innovations in both surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic treatments," says New York plastic surgeon Alan Gold, MD, president of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF), co-sponsor of Hot Topics with the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF). "Every year the Hot Topics seminar proves to be one of the most popular sessions, so this year we there will be two Hot Topics programs - one at the beginning of the Meeting and one at the end."

The following are among the presentations included in this year's Hot Topics program:

-- Injection Lipolysis (Otherwise known as Mesotherapy or LipoDissolve):

V. Leroy Young, MD, a plastic surgeon in St. Louis, IL, will be

discussing ASERF's Clinical Trial on injection lipolysis. The

trial will study 10 patients receiving four injection lipolysis

treatments to one side of their abdomen. MRIs and biopsies will be

performed on the patients, and photographs of the patients will be taken

before and after injections are administered. The goal of this study is

to find out if injection lip
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