Journal

From the 1st of July, the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Aphra) implemented new guidelines for doctors who perform cosmetic surgery (Ahpra, 2023). Cosmetic surgery, defined as “operations and other procedures that revise or change the appearance, colour, texture, structure, or position of normal bodily features with the dominant purpose of achieving what

Whether from a major procedure or a minor scrape, scars appear when skin experiences trauma or incisions during surgery. The good news is there are effective and proven strategies for minimising the appearance of scars, and even in time, getting rid of them. Scars are your body’s way of healing an open wound, tear or incision in the deeper layers

Undergoing plastic surgery may be one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make. It may be your first operative procedure, or perhaps you feel confident about surgery but nervous or unsure where to start. No two surgeries are the same, and researching your procedure is as important as the surgery itself. Dr Rohan Page helps patients take their first