Terrence P. Murphy, MD, a cosmetic surgeon in Denver, is questioning some cosmetic surgeons’ use of “awake surgery,” involving high doses of local anesthesia without sedation, according to a release ...

Imagine getting a facelift with a local anesthesia. Some plastic surgeons are doing that now, hoping that less anesthesia lessens the risk and promotes a faster recovery. The local anesthesia uses a ...

(Ad) Dr. Johnny Mao first learned that facial plastic surgery using local anesthesia was possible by doing facial reconstruction surgery on cancer patients. “Many of these patients were in their 80s ...