CNN: Robots are the future?

CNN.com recently covered the variety of new robotic technologies that have trickled out since the debut of the "Da Vinci" system in 1991.

"We are trying to produce complex machines to replace surgical tools, which are hand tools. It's like when industry moved from a chisel and hammer to machine tools."
That analogy is fitting in that many of our current surgical tools are more technology dependent these days.

For example, any of our laser technology, as well as Ultrashape, Ulthera, and Zeltiq, all have highly-sophisticated readouts and calibrations that are performed with a computer, as well as varying handpieces that have to be swapped out manually to achieve the desired result for a patient.

I can foresee a day where I will sit in an adjacent room and have robots do all the work!

Dr. Jason Pozner
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center, Boca Raton
Sanctuary Plastic Surgery, Boca Raton

Dr. David J. Goldberg
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center, Boca Raton
Skin Laser Surgery Specialists of NY/NJ

What happened in Vegas at ASAPS...

Greetings after a great meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Las Vegas.



The Hot Topics seminar was very interesting today. I gave a talk on Ulthera for neck tightening. It generated a lot of interest... see previous posts for more on it, but it looks like they are progressing with their technology. No word yet on FDA approval.

Dr. Michael Kulick from San Francisco presented his Eleme Smoothshapes results for cellulite. Very scientific study with 3-d vectra analysis. and it showed the best cellulite results I have ever seen.

Dr. Mark Jewell presented Liposonix and Jeffrey Kenkel presented Ultrashape data. Very good fat reduction results from both companies. Dr. Sydney Coleman presented some of the latest research on Zeltiq, which as you know from reading this blog, freezes fat to eliminate it. All of these fat reduction technologies are looking good.

Dr. Malcolm Paul presented the latest RF-assisted liposuction results with Invasix Bodytite. Very significant skin tightening! Dr. David Kung presented Bodyjet water assisted liposuction - technology looks good for fat harvest, and it's been in the media a lot for the novelty of the water.

V. Leroy Young presented an update on Juvista update; great early clinical work for this scar reduction technology. We'll be hearing more about it later on.

Dr. Louis Bucky presented on fat grafting to the breast and Dr. Coleman made some excellent comments. It looks like this procedure is getting much more established. I guess I should start doing this in Boca Raton!

Currently I have been using it for correcting some breast augmentation complications but it may be time to start using for augmentation.

Finally, Reloxin is no longer Reloxin, I guess they are going to use the European name of Dysport.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Jason Pozner
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center
Sanctuary Plastic Surgery

Dr. David J. Goldberg
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center
Skin Laser Surgery Specialists of NY/NJ

IMCAS: Glimpse of Ulthera

We are still extremely hot on Ulthera. This revolutionary device has the potential to upend the non-surgical facial rejuvenation market. It's still not approved in the US, but we feel that its skin thickness measuring aspects and ability to put targeted thermal zones into specific deeper tissue layers may be a way to non-surgically tighten facial skin.

As you can see, Dr. Pozner is very happy with the device.
Dr. David J. Goldberg
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center
Skin Laser Surgery Specialists NY/NJ

Dr. Jason Pozner
Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic Center