Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell any of this to Randee Bank, 38, who admits she's a cosmetic-surgery junkie. You name it and the suburban New York housewife has had it done: Botox injected in her forehead to paralyze the facial muscles and prevent wrinkles from forming, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, fat transferred from her behind to her face--and lots of laser work. She's had pulse lasers to erase broken blood vessels in her cheeks, diode lasers to remove the hair on her upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes...
...Stan Madray, 36, who works for an entertainment company in Orlando, Fla., was unhappy with his "chipmunk cheeks that made me look older and worn." His doctor liposuctioned his cheeks and jowls, then beamed a laser under the skin to sort of "shrink wrap" his face. It was done on a Friday, and he was back at work by Monday, and nobody was the wiser, despite some swelling...
Carbon dioxide, or CO2, lasers have been widely used since 1994 to bloodlessly eradicate wrinkles and sun damage by vaporizing the upper layer of skin, thus stimulating the underlying collagen fibers to rejuvenate the skin. Some 170,000 people had laser resurfacing done last year, making it by far the most popular laser procedure. Though chemical peels do essentially the same thing--and cost less than the average $2,500 to $3,000 for laser resurfacing--lasers have the advantage of being more controllable, since chemicals are absorbed at different rates by different skin...
Picking the right doctor, of course, is crucial. A number of boards certify plastic surgeons and dermatologists, but what's more important is the doctor's experience in the specific procedure you're contemplating. Some physicians contend that you need to have done 200 or more laser procedures to be fully proficient. When choosing a doctor, recommendations from previous patients are a better guide than come-on advertisements. "Very intelligent people make poor decisions when choosing a physician for plastic surgery," says Dr. Tina Alster, a Washington dermatologist known as Dr. Fix It, who sees an average of two patients...
...learned that his disease had returned. This time doctors recommended immediate--and even more serious--surgery: removal of parts of his stomach and small intestine. Although physicians told him there was no alternative, Nichols stubbornly decided to find one. Says his sister Elizabeth Troy: "He believed anything could be done. Failure was never an option, ever...