Facts & Fallacies Episodes

The surgery that meaningfully addresses skin laxity also happens to be the procedure that attracts the most persistent myths — from a supposedly “new” natural look invented overseas, to the idea that recovery takes months. In the first installment of a multi-episode series on face lifting, Dr. Lawrence Bass and co-host Summer Hardy work through the most common misconceptions people bring into a consultation, calling each one a fact or a fallacy. They cover the “Paris lift” media trend and ...

Aesthetic medicine moves billions of dollars a year, which means the loudest takes on injectable cosmetics — pro or con — usually come from someone with something to sell. Dr. Lawrence Bass walks through six widely-circulated claims about fillers — that they look puffy and unnatural, that they can be repeated as often as you want, that they only suit younger faces, that they lift sagging tissue, that they stretch the skin and accelerate aging, and that they qualify as “forever chemicals” — an...