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Tag: "silicone" at medical news

Fat And Stem Cells For Breast Augmentation

...eatment gives a natural and softer effect than the silicone implants. This procedure involves the injection of fat from stomach and thigh which is enriched with stem cells before injection. Kotaro Yoshimura, a surgeon from Tokyo University Medical School said that forty patients have been treated with this ...

Researchers Conducting Clinical Trials of Diaphragm as HIV Prevention Method

...eattle-based PATH. SILCS is a "one-size fits most" silicone device that likely will receive FDA approval and be available by 2010, according to the Sun-Times. SILCS differs from the most widely used diaphragm, called Ortho All-Flex, because it does not require a woman to undergo a pelvic exam to be fitted w...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...rt as applied to medicine, at Hopkins, also took a silicone impression of Fletchers damaged midface and created a stone model of the damaged terrain on which his new nose would be built. On to this base, the artist applied hot wax and sculpted a replica of the soldiers nose, something he has done many times b...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...nes bought on the black market and pump industrial silicone -- the same stuff used in brake fluid -- into thei..., to actually changing your body through hormones, silicone injections and surgery," said Cris Beam, a journalist who spent seven years following a group of tra...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...people would be surprised to learn that a cosmetic silicone artificial finger, offering only passive function, with no mechanical structure, can cost $5,500 from an anaplastologist.' Manufacturing is currently taken care of by a firm in California, but it is able to make only a few fingers a week. Investmen...

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