Dr. Pitanguy is a veteran of cosmetic surgery. Even in the early sixties his name was known from reports in glossy magazines. I met him at a convention in Atlanta, where he reported on some of his surgical procedures. I admire him personally and his contributions to the guild are unique. Yet unnoticed by most doctors and the media, a new era of cosmetic surgery has begun. Busty girls made of silicone, aging Hollywood stars with revamped, tight-stretched dolls’ faces – all this could soon be in the past. Cosmetic surgery today is evolving into a multidisciplinary beauty and rejuvenation medicine in which scalpels and silicone are in most cases no longer needed.
The New Cosmetic Surgery uses minimally invasive, gentle cosmetic surgery under local anaesthesia. An example of minimally invasive surgery is microcannular liposuction, which enables very careful and precise shaping of body and face with minimal aftercare of only a few days. Furthermore, it uses the body’s own stem cells, obtained from fat tissue by means of microcannulas, which for example enable permanent breast augmentation without silicone! This technology also makes obsolete the famous ‘Facelift Method’ of Dr. Pitanguy, tested on many stars, as well as eyelid corrections and wrinkle treatment with “fillers”. Stem cells have a direct local regenerating and rejuvenating effect and can be used in aesthetic treatments in place of the tightening and gathering treatments with a scalpel!
As many apparently “natural” cosmetic and functional problems of aging that have been addressed to date with the scalpel are in fact symptoms of a chronic lack of certain hormones, in the New Cosmetic Surgery we use bioidentical hormones to boost the age-related decrease in hormone levels back to the individual optimum values. The result: regeneration and rejuvenation from inside out, greater vitality and an appearance of between one to 15 years younger.
The enormous potential of the New Cosmetic Surgery resides in the perfect and harmonious combination of these treatments! Almost all cosmetic problems of the face, body and skin can thus be optimally treated with completely natural results. Trimming with a scalpel or silicone implants will in the future probably only be considered in exceptional cases!
DDr. Heinrich, MD