A polypropylene barbed suture material is now available to allow oculoplastic surgeons to perform minimally invasive brow lift procedures. The self-anchoring Contour Threads, distributed by Surgical ...

Some patients going in for "fox eye" cosmetic procedures say they are being left with pain, scarring, and asymmetrical results. "Fox eye" thread lift procedures use barbed sutures to pull the skin ...

When it first came out in the late ’90s, the so-called “thread lift” (using surgical thread to lift sagging skin) was heralded as the kinder, gentler face-lift. But scary side effects, such as ...

On her talk show Oprah Winfrey promoted the new barbed-suture face-lift as a “one-hour lunch-break lift” and a “cutting-edge procedure with no cutting edges.” On “Today” Matt Lauer described it as a ...

This article first appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of NewBeauty. Click here to subscribe. Early 2001 saw Tom and Nicole, J.Lo and P. Diddy, and Hollywood’s infatuation with the thread lift. The ...

The procedure sees people lifting their outer eye area (Picture: Getty Images) Fox eye makeup is a huge trend right now, where you use shadow, liner, and eyebrow products to lift the outer corner of ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Lisa Goodman: PDO thread is a type of dissolvable suture that's actually made even from a sugar, and it dissolves underneath your skin over time, and everywhere ...

Sitting at his desk in his Rodeo Drive office, Harold Lancer, a dermatologist with one of the largest practices in the country (he has more than 30,000 patients in his database), makes a prophetic ...