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  1. Xeomin, the new Botox-like injectable, will certainly compete with Botox and Dysport. Prices could finally drop with comparable agents.
  2. Botx and Filler Day at the office - everyone getting ready for the Holidays
  3. Chapter sections done on LASER and Light-Based Systems, Basic Physics, Mechanisms, and Skin Response for Medical Aesthetic Practice course
  4. Completed chapters on Botulinum (Botox) Agents basic science and delivery information for Medical Aesthetic Practice on line course
  5. Entire gene sequencing has become affordable. What was once $250000, is now down to $4000 at Illumina in San Diego. Check out your genes?
  6. Medical Aesthetic Practice Vol I is in processing. Looking forward to completion.(Skin Science, Peels, Cosmeceuticals, Vein Sclerotherapy)
  7. Xeomin (by Merz), the next generation Botox-equivalent wrinkle treatment, has FDA approval, and offers several advantages over Botox.
  8. Pearl: At least 40% of skin receiving sun from 10AM-2PM for 15-20 mins can optimize Vitamin D output and balance harmful rays. "Breaktime?"
  9. An amazing combination peel with salicylic acid, lactic acid,and glycolic acid at 14-15% can give a nice peeling and glow in 1-3 days
  10. A great light peel with 2-4 coats for freshening dark and sensitive skin --lactic acid 30%
  11. The "Perfect Peel" is a good low potency phenol peel for most skin types
  12. Happily a prolific year for 2010 and 2011.
  13. See some military 1/35th scale models. Facebook ---at Military Scale Modeling Enthusiast. under "LINKS" or Donn Hickman "photos"
  14. Chemiical peels in the Asian Patient in Newsletter for the Indian Association of Plastic Surgeons, October 2010.
  15. Circular scar breast lift paper in print now Journal of plast reconstr aesthetic surg JPRAS (2011) Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 164-173
  16. Article now in print on circular scar breast reduction J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2011 Jun;64(6):e162-4. Epub 2011 Feb 22.
  17. New blog set up on sister website www.bestpursestringbreastlift.com. Ask your questions there under: ASK THE DOCTOR---- main site pending
  18. Teaching course: RNs with/and Physicians on chemical peels Newport Beach, August 25 2011. 4 courses thus far in 2011.
  19. Submittedfirst draft of textbook on Aesthetic Medicine: a complilation of another work, chemical peels, cosmeceuticals, and sclerotherapy
  20. Completed chapter draft on Spider Vein Sclerotherapy for Text- conventional and new concepts for small varicose veins of face and legs