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The Lead · Industry

Body Dysmorphic Disorder Screening in Aesthetic Consultations

Somewhere between one in ten and one in seven people walking into a cosmetic consultation carries a psychiatric condition that surgery cannot treat and often makes worse. The better practices screen for it before they pick up a marker. Here is what body dysmorphic disorder looks like across the consultation table, what the prevalence data actually shows, and why the most important thing a good surgeon can say to some patients is no.

July 17, 2026

By The Editorial Desk

6 min

Supplements and Surgery: The Stop List Nobody Reads

Almost every plastic surgery patient takes something: a fish oil capsule, a multivitamin, a turmeric gummy, a sleep aid marked natural. Most of them assume none of it matters on the operating table, and most of them are wrong. A short list of common supplements changes how you bleed and how you respond to anesthesia, which is why surgeons hand out a stop list before every procedure. The trouble is that patients treat supplements as food rather than medicine, forget to mention them, and skim past the instruction to stop. Here is what the pre-operative literature actually says about supplements before surgery, which ones matter, and why the timing is not negotiable.

July 17, 2026 · 7 min

Industry

How to Read a Before-and-After Gallery

The before-and-after gallery is the single most persuasive page on any plastic surgeon's website, and it is also the least regulated. Lighting, posture, expression, and selection bias can manufacture a transformation that the scalpel never delivered, and every experienced surgeon knows exactly how. That does not make galleries useless. It makes them a document you have to know how to read. Here is what an honest gallery looks like, what a curated one is hiding, and the specific questions that separate the two.

July 16, 2026 · 6 min

Industry

Scar Care After Plastic Surgery: What the Evidence Actually Supports

Every plastic surgery patient goes home with an incision, and almost every one of them ends up in a drugstore aisle staring at products that promise to erase it. Most of that aisle is ritual. The published evidence on scar care is narrower and more useful than the marketing suggests: one topical approach has real guideline support, a couple of habits genuinely matter, and the scars that truly misbehave need a procedure, not a cream. Here is what the wound-healing literature actually says about scar care after plastic surgery, and where the money is wasted.

July 16, 2026 · 6 min

The City Guides

Top surgeons, city by city.

Short, considered editorial picks for the cities where aesthetic medicine has the highest concentration of practitioners doing distinct work. We add a city when we have done the reporting, not before.

2 featured · California

Beverly Hills

An editorial guide to the city's aesthetic medicine scene.

3 featured · California

Los Angeles

An editorial guide to the city's plastic surgery scene beyond the Beverly Hills triangle.

3 featured · New York

New York

An editorial guide to the city's plastic surgery establishment.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder Screening in Aesthetic Consultations