This special event will be held at The Regency Club Los Angeles.

· Complimentary signed copies of Be Your Best and a brief telephone consultation by appointment, with Dr. Fodor will be provided to Regency Club members who RSVP for the event. Non-members who RSVP to attend the event will receive a 50% discount off the book’s regular price of $54.95, plus a brief complimentary telephone consultation with Dr. Fodor.

Dr. Fodor will also answer your questions on all areas of aesthetic plastic surgery.  

· Be Your Best is the first book to combine the insights of over 150 board certified plastic surgeons. You’ll learn what you must know before having aesthetic plastic surgery.

· Please RSVP by Sept. 28th by calling The Regency Club at 310.208.1443 or email Kim Phillips  at kphillips@theregencyclub.com

· The Regency Club is located in Westwood at 10900 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1700 Los Angeles, CA 90024

· Do you have specific questions or concerns that you would like to be addressed by Dr. Fodor? Please email these by Sept. 28th to pbfodor@aol.com.

Each year, millions of Americans choose to undergo an aesthetic plastic surgery procedure or a non-invasive cosmetic treatment. If you are among them how will you decide which procedure might be best for you? What about the many new non-surgical procedures that are heavily promoted and featured in magazines and on TV shows? Which are truly effective, and which are simply oversold?

What if you could tap into the knowledge of over 150 board certified plastic surgeons to learn the answers to these and many other important questions? An informative new book, Be Your Best – A Comprehensive Guide to Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Written by the Experts allows the reader to do just that, with its 260 – plus pages filled with these leading doctor’s views and technical expertise, a realistic presentation of what can and cannot be accomplished with aesthetic medicine and surgery as well as tips on how to assure an uneventful recovery.

Internationally acclaimed aesthetic plastic surgeon Peter Bela Fodor, M.D., F.A.C.S. served as the principal writer and Medical Editor of Be Your Best. Dr. Fodor is well-known for his many contributions to plastic surgery. He has been widely published, was co-editor of the international journal “Aesthetic Plastic Surgery” and has served in multiple positions in various national and international plastic surgical organizations including as President of the Lipoplasty Society of North America as well as President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

“Be Your Best is intended to help anyone who is interested in cosmetic procedures assisting them in making wise choices for themselves or their family members,” says Dr. Fodor. “Everyone seeking cosmetic surgery through reading this book should possess the knowledge necessary to select the qualified plastic surgeon right for them. It also prepares patients to be well informed as they consider the options available to them. This may include the decision to not undergo aesthetic surgery.”

For more information on aesthetic plastic surgery please visit Dr. Fodor’s website www.drpeterfodor.com or call Dr. Fodor’s office at 310.203.9818.

Be Your Best is also available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/shops/pbfodor

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Dr. Peter B. Fodor reports that revision work of procedures done elsewhere now account for fully half of his practice. Dr. Fodor is a board certified plastic surgeon and is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He has long been an advocate for patient safety. Dr. Fodor says that correcting a previous procedure can be several times more difficult for the surgeon than a primary case, and so cosmetic surgery revision has become a sub-specialty of sorts.

No face-lift can stop time in its tracks, so as aging continues, even a happy patient may choose to have another one years later. But what if your face-lift or tummy tuck never pleased you? Maybe you ended up with more scarring than you bargained for, or your face lift left you with uneven features. Maybe just the general way things turned out aren’t what you had hoped for. Perhaps your first surgeon’s procedure gave you not only a tighter jaw line, but also a flat, wind-swept cheek and a stretched mouth. Or your nose no longer has an unsightly bump, but now is uneven, or worse, unnatural-looking.

The tremendous increase in the number of cosmetic surgery procedures over the past decade or so has created a new phenomenon – thousands of people who have been left unhappy with their results. These days, there’s such a critical mass of plastic surgery patients dissatisfied with their results that some surgeons perform secondary surgeries, or re-dos on a regular basis.

Nose jobs, for instance, are tricky because surgeons can’t control healing or how good the building materials are. Cartilage can be too thick or too flimsy; skin draped over a newly fashioned nose structure might not shrink to the shape the surgeon wants.

Dr. Fodor says that sometimes advertising can create unrealistic expectations. The idea that a procedure can be quick or painless is often marketed to patients. “The patient is always right when it comes to plastic surgery”, says Dr. Fodor. “A heart patient usually doesn’t decide if she wishes to spend less money to have a less-effective procedure. But a cosmetic surgery patient can choose a minimally invasive face-lift instead of a more complete one. If one surgeon won’t give her what she is asking for, another one will, not always ending with the best result.”

In many of the so-called “mini” –face lifts, problems are often under corrected, according to Dr. Fodor. These short-cuts may require little recovery but usually don’t last very long. For more information or a consultation, visit www.drpeterfodor.com or call Dr. Fodor’s office at 310.203.9818.

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“Primarily, they are buying a little time,” says Dr. Fodor, who has participated in the evaluation of many of the cosmetic lasers and injectable fillers that have been released over the past twenty years. “For some people who have minor issues including fine lines, sun damage and minor skin laxity, laser treatments and products like BOTOX and Juvederm can produce results,” say Dr. Fodor

Many people don’t realize that the minimally invasive procedures offer only temporary improvements and they must be repeated (every few months, in most cases) which will increase by many times the long-term cost of maintaining one’s appearance. Dr. Fodor says that the right plastic surgery procedures can provide much more dramatic aesthetic improvements, at a lower overall cost because patients won’t need to return repeatedly for re-treatments.

Many of the most enthusiastic exercisers notice that regardless of which form of exercise and which method of dieting they subscribe to these fatty accumulations seem to change very little. Frustration over this lack of results can lead to a loss of will to continue. Subsequently, more weight is gained in this and other parts of the body, leading to more frustration, obesity and depression. And for some, a yo-yo dieting habit can develop.

The  answer to this vicious cycle that occurs with the desire to achieve permanent fat and weight loss rests with a combination of liposuction, properly selected exercise programs, and an appropriately designed food intake. Strategic suctioning around the buttocks will create a shapelier and/or more compact looking, lifted backside. For some patients, a tummy tuck, either at the same time or in different surgical sessions may also be recommended.

Initially, when liposuction was first developed, only the deep layer of fat was suctioned. This approach, respecting the superficial layer of fat, serves as a cushion under the skin, camouflaging potential waves, depressions, and irregularities. It works well for patients with elastic skin and for smaller fat deposits.

A more recent innovation in liposuction pioneered by a few surgeons is known as Superficial Liposuction and is currently being practiced by only a handful of the most experienced and highly skilled plastic surgeons. Superficial Liposuction works closer to the undersurface of the skin. It is far more difficult to perform evenly, but when properly done a better skin contraction result will occur and, therefore, this type of procedure can be used to treat older patients and those patients who have larger accumulations of fat.

The array of options available to patients today, including lower and upper layer liposuction, make it possible for liposculpture to create the visual impression of a body lift. In conjunction with liposuction, some patients also receive breast lift surgery or breast reduction.

Liposuction, also known as “Lipoplasty” and “Suction-Assisted Lipectomy,” should only be handled and performed by a highly trained, board certified plastic surgeon with a proven safety record and a very low complication rate. Discomfort following the liposuction procedure is similar to what most patients are used to experiencing after a heavy workout. Once more, the results are permanent as witnessed by hundreds of thousands of patients who have had liposuction. Fat cell re-growth extensively studied at the site of suction and elsewhere in the body, has been found insignificant. Because they no longer have body regions that resist efforts to diet and exercise, most patients can lose additional weight after suction more easily than before the surgery.

Over the last two decades, my contributions to refining all aspects of liposuction (from fluid infusion to techniques and instrumentation of extraction as well as postoperative care) have made this procedure extremely safe and, for most patients, painless. Due to Dr. Fodor’s impressive technique, liposuction’s results are highly predictable and patients now attaining significant aesthetic improvement. In this case, liposuction can be better defined as “liposculpture.”

We are now offering the Vi Peel at just $250 (below the suggested retail price of $300 to $500). ViPeel packages (3 or 4 per package) also include an Oxygen Facial (a $125 value). Century Aesthetics clients will also earn Rewards that they can apply to future procedures in my practice.

Call us at 310.203.9533 to book your ViPeel Appointment—get the radiant, glowing skin you will definitely need post Summer Sun. More information on the Century Cosmetics Medi-Spa can be found at: http://www.drpeterfodor.com/century_cosmetics.

When liposuction is performed without discretion, artistic sense, or technical skill, the results can be unattractive and very discouraging to patients. Most commonly, secondary liposuction is performed to treat asymmetry, surface irregularities, and/or contour problems caused by excessive fat removal.

Treatment of poor liposuction results often includes strategic suctioning to correct asymmetries and areas that were insufficiently reduced by the primary procedure. In other instances, areas over-reduced by the primary procedure are treated by autologous fat transfer. Very commonly, a combination of these two techniques is used to improve on less-than-satisfactory results obtained by another surgeon.

Injected through a very small needle into the muscles of the face to stop nerve impulses from reaching the muscles causes these muscles to relax, these treatments which makes wrinkles gradually disappear. The results last three to six months and, at times, longer.

I have extensive experience using BOTOX® Cosmetic not only for cosmetic reasons, but to treat headaches (including migraines) and excessive sweating of the armpits and palms.

Injectable treatments are a wonderful tool in treating cosmetic patients but, like any tool, they can be misused. Inadequately trained practitioners from varied backgrounds are often responsible for the substandard results that all of us have seen, many times on well-known celebrities who appear virtually expressionless from Botox, sporting “over plumped” lips and “mask-like” faces from over zealous use of fillers. These kinds of results are entirely avoidable.

I practice meticulous technique with careful control of the location and depth of the injections, based on an intimate knowledge of the anatomy gained in no small measure from my experience in endoscopic facial rejuvenation.

• Look for a surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
• Get documentation of the surgeon’s privileges to perform liposuction at an accredited acute care hospital with proper support systems.
• Be sure to give an accurate and up-to-date medical history to your surgeon. Report all past surgeries — including all past cosmetic procedures and medications you are taking, including dietary and herbal supplements.
• Discuss all aspects of your liposuction procedure with your surgeon beforehand, including risks and proposed recovery time. Learn who will oversee your recovery.
• Learn who will be administering anesthesia, and what type of anesthesia will be used.
• View before and after photos to familiarize yourself with your surgeon’s work.  Do the post-surgery photos reflect a result that is dramatic but complements the patient’s natural body shape? Do they show a smooth, graceful contour with no change in skin pigmentation?

Following these guidelines will help avoid liposuction complications and the need for a corrective, secondary liposuction procedure. Though it is impossible to completely eliminate the element of risk from any surgical procedure, knowing as much as possible about your surgeon and the procedure is one of the keys to a safe and effective liposuction experience.

Go to my website for further information and to view before and after photos:  http://www.drpeterfodor.com/liposuction