A 47-year-old lady from Staten Island, New York, is suing her plastic surgeon for the sum of $5 million, after she claims his operation left her with four breasts. The patient, who underwent surgery in 2003, said, “I essentially ‘came out of that operation with essentially four breasts.’” ...

Last October 9th, in Budapest, Hungary, beauty pageant contests took to the stage, not to show off their natural beauty, but rather show off their unnatural beauty. The Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant is said to be the world’s first ‘plastic beauty contest’, a contest in which judges were not only...

Researchers at Stanford University are currently developing a training technology that will allow doctors to rehearse surgical procedures before the patient reaches the operating room. The demonstration project, called the Stanford Rhino­logical Virtual Surgical Environment (VSE), uses a haptic interface...

Cankles is popular slang term (actually a portmanteau word combining calf and ankle) used to describe the area where the ankle and the calf muscle look to be one and the same. Women with cankles will notice that the width of the back side of their leg is the same width as they continue down the leg. There is...

The nation’s first face transplant patient braved the press to finally speak out about her ordeal. Connie Culp, 46, was badly disfigured in a incident that occurred in 2004. Later in 2008, she became the first patient in the U.S to undergo a full face transplant. Until Tuesday, Culp’s identity...

Amidst the grip of a worldwide recession, the plastic surgery industry is experiencing a surge of new patients not only looking for a new image and confidence, but hoping to wow future employers. Many job seekers are now turning to plastic surgery in hope to increase their chance of obtaining work, this...

A 55 year old farmer who lost both of his arms in an accident six years ago, has undergone a double arm transplant at the Munich Clinic, Germany. Karl Merk had lived without arms for six years. After failing to successfully be fitted with prosthetic arms, he consulted the medical team at Munich...

Operating theaters of the world, namely OR Live, have begun broadcasting surgeries online. From open-heart surgery to amputations, sex-change operations to autopsies, these video clips show, in graphic detail, how the surgeries are carried out. Warning: Although anatomy is natural, these videos contain...

For many women labiaplasty and vaginoplasty represent two private procedures that can assist greatly in self confidence and improve sex life. However this female cosmetic surgery to “rejuvenate” the vagina is off-limits for female Australians. The procedure has been blacklisted by Australian...

What is it that makes a face look beautiful? Scientists say its say it’s symmetry, combined with a few gender-specific traits. The idea that symmetry is related to beauty is be no means recent. The ancient Greeks wrote of the “golden ratio” and how the ideal face would be two-thirds its...