If Ya Have to Buy Your 5-Star Reviews, What Does that Say About Your Services?

... services who will gladly take someone’s money, including services that involve concocting fake reviews. In fact, that whole fake-review-thing has been a problem for a while, prompting Yelp and Amazon to install some safeguards several years ...

Tags: Social Media, Dermatology, Reviews, patient reviews

CoolSculpting, Ulthera, & Counterfeit Cosmetic Devices

The news of counterfeit Botox made waves in the media as patients were unknowingly receiving fake and potentially unsafe products. Now, we are also seeing incidents of counterfeit aesthetic devices.In recent years, CoolSculpting procedures for ...

Tags: Risk Factors, Ultherapy, CoolSculpting , Fake, Dangers, counterfeit botox

The New 2020 Way to Inject Facial Fillers

We spend a lot of time undoing the worry that people have about, 'I don't want to look fake,'" explains Dr. Susan DeCoste. "I explain to patients when you do it correctly, it doesn't look fake; it looks very natural," ...

Tags: facial fillers, Anti-Aging, Jowls, Sagging Skin, Injectables, Prejuvenation

Can Doctor Reviews and Rankings Online Be Trusted?

Those nefarious schemes, such as cooking up fake negative reviews to tank a rival business, or bolstering the sales of another with an onslaught of manufactured five-star reviews, have left consumers with a jaded eye where reviews are concerned. ...

Tags: Social Media, Instagram, fake news, Yelp

How Cosmetic Providers Are Using Social Media To Market To You

This potential scheme is a common one, where fake followers and likes are bought and paid for via a big marketing budget to pump up credibility as a trusted resource, often masking inferior qualifications.YouTube has emerged as a go-to source for ...

Tags: Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine, Instagram, Celebrity, Selfie, Board Certified, social media

Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up!

Is It Real or FAKE? In the early years of social media, Day says, you would see before and after pictures that were kind of sensational or possibly too good to be true. But she says, don’t be tempted to give in to the sensationalist ideas ...

Tags: Social Media, Dermatology, Fake, Board Certified, fake news

What are the Costs of Breast Augmentation Procedures?

... implant can often look unnatural, but if placed under the muscle, it is possible to create a less-fake appearance. These implants happen to be the most natural-feeling.Form-Stable GelForm stable gel implants are also called “gummy bear” ...

Tags: Breast Implants, Breast Augmentation

We Want to Know: Gwen Stefani

Botox on your (once) beautiful face. You're starting to look as fake as Madonna."Dispelling the RumorsIt's easy to criticize, of course, but what do you think? If she has had a few procedures, do any of them look overdone? I mean, she ...

Tags: Celebrity, plastic surgery, Fillers, Celebrity Plastic Surgery, facial fillers, cosmetic surgery, Anti-Aging, Botox , Prejuvenation

What's Real in the World of Cosmetic Surgery?

Boston, Massachusetts. Many of us ask ourselves, ‘What’s real and what’s fake in the world of cosmetic surgery?’ Have you ever looked at before and after pictures on social media and thought, are these results real or ...

Tags: Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine, Social Media, cosmetic surgery, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, fake news