AI in the Operating Room: A New Surgical Era

AI in the Operating Room: A New Surgical Era

In a recent episode of Bots & Bytes, host Alex Winters spoke with Sina Bari MD, Senior Director of Medical AI at iMerit Technology, about how artificial intelligence is shaping surgical robotics. They discussed NVIDIA’s collaboration with GE HealthCare, which is...
Understanding Plastic Surgery

Understanding Plastic Surgery

When we start to unpack plastic surgery, or at least the part most people think about — aesthetics or cosmetic surgery — we can broadly define two categories: restoration and augmentation. In a sense, restoration takes you back to the way you were and augmentation...
Aging 101

Aging 101

I’ll save the biochemistry of aging for another day but the big ticket item involves changes in the ratio and structure of two important proteins: Collagen and Elastin. Collagen provides rigidity to tissue and Elastin allows it to stretch. Changes at the molecular...
Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation

Each of the above changes has its own treatment. Skin texture changes are treated with resurfacing (e.g. peels or lasers), descent and sagginess is treated with lifting (e.g. facelift) , and volume loss is treated with volume restoration (e.g. fillers or fat...
Beauty

Beauty

To return to aging at a holistic level, we are forced to ask is aging ugly? Most of us probably don’t think so. We can look into the wrinkles of our parents or older loved ones and see tremendous beauty in their smile lines and features. The question of ugliness, or...