Cosmetic Surgery

• Face/Off, For Real Monday June 19, 2006 in: Facial Plastic Surgery Tag(s): Cosmetic Surgery

  In 1997, we were treated to a movie that required a great deal of suspension of disbelief to enjoy. In the John Woo-helmed Face/Off, super FBI agent Sean Archer and archvillain Castor Troy, played by John Travolta and Nicolas Cage respectively, were both drawn into a situation where they had to have their faces swapped. Literally. Hence, the film's title.

  Over-the-top action sequences notwithstanding, the movie drew more than just a few hoots of derision for its preposterous premise: that a person can have somebody else's face surgically transplanted onto theirs. And the conceit that the characters also had their voices and body types exchanged further contributed to the ridiculousness of the movie's plot.

  It's been nine years since Face/Off was shown in theaters. And boy, what a difference almost a decade of advancements in science and plastic surgery technology makes. What we deemed a ridiculous idea in 1997 is now almost a reality, with news of British doctors preparing to conduct the world's first full face transplant.

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• Cosmetic Jobs For Jobs Thursday June 15, 2006 in: Facial Plastic Surgery Tag(s): Cosmetic Surgery

  We have often been at the receiving end of endless lectures about how we're going to be successful in whatever career paths we take as long as we have the necessary qualifications, an unwavering passion for whatever it is we do, and just a bit of luck.

  But more often than not, these lectures miss something that's so important and so real: we also need to look good to succeed in the traditional corporate world. Not just the nice-suit-neat-hairstyle variety of looking good, but "looking good" of the more physiological sort.

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