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Sue

Posted: Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:51:51 PM

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Preview Your Plastic Surgery With iSurgeon
by Caleb Johnson — Nov 3rd 2009 at 3:45PM

Thinking about a nip here, or a tuck there? If you're not certain that a face lift or lipo is right for you, you might want to test the waters with an iPhone application. According to Reuters, two plastic surgery apps, both aiming to inform surgical candidates about different procedures, have been released in the past month.

The first, the Shafer Plastic Surgery App, was launched in October. It hosts a database of more than 1,000 questions and answers that people interested in surgery might ask. If you choose to pay $2.99 for the full version, you can also send the creator, Dr. David Shafer, direct questions about procedures. The second, iSurgeon, is a little creepier. This app, free to download this month, alters photos according to the plastic surgery procedure you select. For example, if you'd like to know what that breast enhancement would look like, simply snap a pic of yourself, select that procedure on the app, and bam. The digital version appears right before your eyes. Creepily easy, sure, but if just one less person ends up looking like Michael Jackson, these apps are successes in our minds. [From: Reuters, via DVICE]
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I wonder if you could try on a *facelift* as well.

Bugjune

Posted: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:13:19 PM

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So, who can I sue if I don't turn out looking like my morph? Snicker.

I just had a brain fart! We could all go "virtual" with plastic surgery! Just park our image up on the 'net; then pay money for virtual surgery. That way, I could get HUGE hooters (which I'd never be able to live with real time), a nose job (without any pain from recovery), big ol' booty to order, no more jowels (without a dangerous deep plane lift) ... the possibilities are endless!

I Bug U

DCNGA

Posted: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:53:44 PM

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Well, the thing is that even if the software could 'morph' us to a look we like, it does mean that the look is achievable nor would it likely tell what "procedures" it would take to look like the morph. I work for a software company and the end product rarely accomplishes everything that's promised...just sayin'....

I think I'll take Miss J expertise.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates~ (I pretend to be a cat with a lime carved as a helmet on my head)

MissJ

Posted: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:24:17 PM

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Most likely, it's the type of software that 'auto-morphs'--like the software does it for you. I don't have a morphing program. I just use design principles (which are tempered with actually knowing the realm of the possible re what they can do in surgery) to come up with a construct (of a better looking face). Since I use my morphs as ILLUSTRATIONS for my suggestions and also chart out the displacements (how I changed them), they become 'lessons' in facial analysis. Not only that, but the person also learns which doctors and procedures RELATE to those changes and why.

In other words, stuff done on a program, but not really designed for you by an artist with a 'vision' for you resolves to what I call a "mute morph"; something that does not tell you much.

Also, if you notice the people who market that type of thing, use the handle; "See what you will look like with [this or that] surgery." So, they are implying some kind of prediction. Fact of the matter is that morphs don't predict surgery and certainly not when you're talking an image that is meant to be some kind of prediction of what any 'garden variety' doc could do. Like I know when I do them, I totally analyze what I did on them and then relate that back to specific doctors or the type who could do something like that and sometimes the list gets REAL NARROW.

I've been having problems with computer since May. I'm on a loaner now and still waiting for a new one. If I don't get back to you or am not on board, it would be most likely due to another computer problem.

DCNGA

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Just wondering, Miss J, say someone needs several procedures such as a mid-face lift (or variation there of), along with a lip lift and a neck lift. Do you normally recommend the person use one doctor who could accomplish those objectives, or if you felt the lips could be done better by one doctor but the neck lift by another, would you suggest two doctors?

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