Word: facing
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...Booth, a publicist in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., had her face fully resurfaced by a laser two years ago, just before turning 50, to eliminate smile lines, wrinkles on her forehead, frown lines between the brows and crow's-feet around her eyes. Before the procedures, she says, "I looked mean, and I felt older." She also felt vulnerable at the office. "People want to work with people who appear youthful, vital and exuberant. I wanted to look outside how I felt inside. Does that sound shallow...
...other hand, there's Carol Pighini, 43, a mother of three from Florida. Bothered by some broken capillaries on her face, she picked a dermatologist in Tampa through an ad for gentler Erbium YAG laser treatments. To her horror, her face blistered for three days afterward, her eyes were swollen shut, and pits formed in her skin. "When the laser started hurting, I asked what was happening, and they said they had 'turned it up.'" She says with a sigh, "All this because I couldn't stand wearing makeup." Lancer, the Beverly Hills dermatologist, is now removing the damage with...
...oozing for weeks or, even worse, end up looking like the Phantom of the Opera. Skin heals faster (often in a week) with the newer Erbium lasers, which are cooler and can be used on the thinner surface of the neck and chest as well as the face, as long as the doctor exercises caution. Yet even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse, up to 20% of CO2-laser patients (and possibly some Erbium ones as well) risk ending up with whitened skin one to two years...
...than in adults, but they can help diminish unsightly scars and red stretch marks left over from childbirth or breast surgery. Lasers can also soften acne scars, though removing the scars altogether is difficult. Green-light lasers are effective at zapping broken blood vessels and spider veins on the face, hands and neck. But the process can be painful--just ask tough guy Mark Anfangar, 44, vice president of a Los Angeles party-equipment-rental company, who underwent some 1,000 zaps in one session alone to get rid of the angry red veins on his face. "Halfway through...
Nichols' story is remarkable. He not only fought for the drug's development in the face of total disinterest by drugmakers and mainstream cancer scientists but may also have opened the door to a whole new family of cancer drugs. Says Dr. Francis Giardiello, chief of gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins: "He spurred them to look into this a lot deeper and a lot faster than they would have otherwise. He has a proud legacy." He may also posthumously save the life...