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Dr. Dean Kane of Baltimore performs his Signature Liquid Facelift by using Botox and Fillers to solve the pressures of the unemployed to look their best and younger for job interviews.

 Many unemployed men and women of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Washington, DC have sought the help of Dr. Dean Kane’s expert technique to provide an immediate rejuvenated facial appearance to look their best on their job interview.  Dr Dean Kane created the “Liquid Facelift” because many women and men have very specific needs and desires to look younger, but need to return to work quickly or need to interview for a new position.  There is pressure to compete with a younger looking workforce. Dr. Kane and Lauri recognize people have greater pressure to look their best and look younger, but have much more limited time and financial resources. Dr. Dean Kane’s Liquid Facelift uses Botox or Dysport and fillers such as Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm Ultra Plus or Radiesse to replace the surgical facelift. The LIQUID FACELIFT gives us the lift in our lives we are looking for. In less than 1 hour with instant results and no down time, Dr. Dean Kane can lift your brows, fill the hollows of the lower lids, get rid of your nasal folds and give us the luscious lips we always wanted. BOTOX or DYSPORT is performed by Dr. Dean Kane in his beautiful setting office in Baltimore Maryland to achieve an arch of a brow lift and softens our lines around our eyes. Botox or Dysport rebalances the muscles of our foreheads to remove the angry line between our eyes and the horizontal lines across our foreheads. It is the perfect solution to the non-surgical brow lift. It’s quick and easy and affordable. FILLERS: Today Dr. Dean Kane can use fillers such as Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm Ultra Plus and Radiesse in so many ways that it is taking over the need to have an early surgical lift. By using fillers to create volume in your face, you are plumping out and filling the wrinkles, hollows and lines of the face.  Dr. Kane now uses fillers such as Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm Ultra or Radiesse along the eyebrows to get a brow lift effect. The hollows and bags under the eyes are smoothed away by using fillers. The nasal folds that make look saggy are filled and plumped. Marionettes lines from the corners of the mouth to the chin are filled to reduce the jowling effect along our jaw line. Most women hate the lipstick lines and thinning of our lips. Using fillers Dr. Dean Kane helps to plump and smooth creating just the fullness that is natural and not overdone and minimizes the crinkling and lines of your lips. Confused by all the possible filler options? There are many, but the ones we use are Restylane/Perlane, Juvederm Ultra Plus, and Radiesse. We will teach  you about all of them and recommend which is best for you. Dr. Dean Kane sees patients from all of Maryland, as well as, our neighboring counties in Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Delaware, New Jersey and the Maryland Eastern Shore.  In Maryland, patients come from Aberdeen, Annapolis,  Baltimore, Bel Air, Berlin, Cambridge, Catonsville, Cockeysville, College Park, Columbia, Crownsville, Eldersburg, Elkridge, Ellicott City, Essex, Fallston, Finksburg, Forest Hill, Fort Meade,  Hampstead, Joppa, Laurel,  Lutherville, Middle River, Monkton,  New Market, Odenton, Olney, Owings Mills, Parkton,  Pasadena, Perryville, Phoenix, Pikesville, Randallstown, Reisterstown, Rising Sun, Rosedale, Savage, Guilford, Severn, Severna Park,  St. Michaels, Stevensville, Sykesville,  Taneytown,  Westminster, White Marsh and Windsor Mill.

Posted on 02/01/2010 15:47:00

Should Surgeons Meet Patients Online?

Should Surgeons Meet Patients Online? By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS Published: January 20, 2010 Andy Sotiriou/Getty Images IMAGINE the ease. It’s 2 a.m. and you can’t stop thinking about your saggy midsection. You log on to SurgeonHouseCall.com and create a free patient profile declaring your wish to get a tummy tuck. You fill out a brief medical history and include photographs of the problem area.   Enlarge This Image     In no time, three plastic surgeons offer detailed opinions on the best course of action — with price quotes. It’s as if SurgeonHouseCall.com co-opted the LendingTree slogan, “When banks compete, you win.” In less than a year, SurgeonHouseCall.com has recruited 55 plastic surgeons nationwide to offer opinions. Meanwhile, dozens of plastic surgeons also offer virtual consultations on their own Web sites. But does a patient who gets a plastic surgeon’s recommendation before a face-to-face visit really “win?” Conservative plastic surgeons say it’s fine to send an e-mail message with general information about a range of procedures to a patient, but the practice of offering a diagnosis without ever having met a patient can be problematic. What’s more, offering a surgical recommendation to a distant patient may violate state laws, if the plastic surgeon isn’t licensed in the home state of the patient, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards, a nonprofit group representing 70 boards in the United States and its territories. Critics also say that patients’ poor-quality pictures don’t provide doctors with adequate information. And patients seldom realize that no virtual recommendation is solid without an office consultation and medical clearance. Advocates of virtual consultations suggest that they are convenient and that receiving multiple opinions online benefits a prospective patient. “It changes the first in-person consultation, empowering the patient with knowledge of the procedure, decreased anxiety level and financial readiness,” said Dr. Jason L. Mussman, the founder of SurgeonHouseCall.com. (Dr. Mussman, a resident at Loma Linda University in California, isn’t one of the board-certified plastic surgeons offering his services on the site because he hasn’t been certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.) Out-of-town patients are the primary users of virtual consultations, in which a doctor may offer an opinion in a video chat, an e-mail exchange or a phone conversation. Convenience is the main draw, but a few surgeons also cited the anonymity of the situation, which is attractive to shy patients. “They want a semi-anonymous type of evaluation,” said Dr. Dean P. Kane, a plastic surgeon in Baltimore who offers online consultations. “They want to know cost, and what you get for that cost before they make a commitment, before they walk through that door.” Most plastic surgeons don’t offer virtual consultations. However, in an age when many Web-savvy plastic surgeons answer questions at cosmetic enhancement sites like RealSelf.com, plenty feel comfortable dispensing opinions to patients they’ve never met. Some promise to evaluate pictures quickly and to call back with their expert opinion. Others charge $100 to screen patients to see if they are appropriate candidates. The Web site of Dr. Barry Eppley, a plastic surgeon in the Indianapolis area, promotes “Webcam consultations with Skype.” But in a phone interview, Dr. Eppley called them “online conversations” because, he said, “Technically it’s not a consultation. You’re not going to jump from an online consultation to surgery. You’re using the online thing as a connection.” And because those virtual connections bring in new patients, they are, in effect, marketing tools that some plastic surgeons consider crucial in this difficult economic climate. Dr. Eppley said he often persuaded out-of-state patients after just 20 minutes of a Skype chat. “They do move ahead,” he wrote in an e-mail message. “Regardless of where they are geographically,” he said, “people will come to you because they connected with you.” Experts like Dr. Loren S. Schechter, the chairman of the patient safety committee for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, worry about patients getting a hard sell. Consultations “shouldn’t be about selling the surgery,” he said. Providing a diagnosis to patients across state lines also raises legal issues. Dr. Humayun J. Chaudhry, the president of the Federation of State Medical Boards, said that according to its guidelines a patient-doctor relationship is “clearly established and begun when a physician agrees to undertake diagnosis and treatment of the patient, and the patient agrees.” Such a distinction matters, because usually doctors should only be able to care for patients in states where they are licensed. All the plastic surgeons interviewed for this article insisted an in-office consultation took place prior to surgery. However, when doctors first examine out-of-towners — who often arrive 24 to 72 hours before the scheduled procedure — the doctor’s recommendation might change, or the cost might increase, said Carol M. Martin, an independent plastic surgery consultant who works on behalf of patients. On Skype, Ms. Martin said, the doctor might have stated, “It was going to be X, Y, Z and cost $10,000 but now that I see you in person, it’s going to be $13,000.” Not being prepared for last-minute changes “seems like the biggest pitfall to me,” said Ms. Martin, who tells clients to meet with three to five surgeons before committing. Angela Segal, a patient consultant, reviews quotes for women seeking plastic surgery and negotiates a price. (She also helps plastic surgeons with “online social networking marketing.”) But if a patient didn’t have an in-office consultation, she won’t even look at a price quote. “Nothing is more true and correct than actually seeing a doctor in person,” said Ms. Segal, who worked 12 years as administrator in two plastic surgery practices. She doesn’t trust the pictures patients send in e-mail messages to plastic surgeons for evaluation any more than the ones the lovelorn post at online dating sites. “You expect the doctor to trust the pictures, which is ridiculous.” Since some family practitioners have begun using electronic visits, the American Academy of Family Physicians has established guidelines, including the stipulation that a physician should evaluate only established patients virtually, and only over “safe, secure, online communication systems.” The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has no policy. Some plastic surgeons make it clear to their patients that communications through their Web site “are not necessarily secure” and that “you assume the risk of unauthorized use” of say, the topless pictures you send for evaluation. Paramount in this brave new world is ensuring that patients receive the same standard of care online and in person, said Dr. Chaudhry of the medical board association. “It should be the same exact standard as if the patient was in your examining room. You can’t cut corners.” Plastic surgeons are not the only doctors who do consultations on the Web. Radiologists and dermatologists do some that entail communicating with a far-flung physician; primary-care physicians also keep tabs on established patients virtually. Dr. John W. Bachman, whose family practice department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., did a two-year pilot study of more than 2,500 online consultations, said the aim should be to improve the standard of online care. One issue that plagues any doctor is that they sometimes forget to ask a crucial question. A computer asked patients in the pilot study questions tailored to find potential oversights. A more structured virtual consultation might have helped Dr. Kane. The day before surgery, he saw an out-of-state woman with whom he had exchanged e-mail messages about rhinoplasty. It was only then that she mentioned her occasional cocaine use. “The problem here is it adds significant risk to the surgery,” said Dr. Kane, who canceled the operation. “Your expectations get knocked down and your patient’s expectations are knocked down.” So why then does Dr. Kane even bother with virtual consultations? “If I don’t do it, somebody else will do it,” he said, citing the difficulty of having a solo practice in a competitive world. “The technology is there.”   A version of this article appeared in print on January 21, 2010, on page E3 of the New York edition.

Posted on 01/22/2010 17:03:00

Happy Holidays

Holiday cheers and happy new year to all.

Posted on 12/14/2009 18:37:00

Sotto Sopra Benefit Dinner for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure www.DrDeanKane.com

Save the Date! More details to come. www.DrDeanKane.com

Posted on 08/03/2009 20:16:00

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Posted on 05/20/2009 18:31:00

Join us for our next Open House: Body Transformations, Mommy Makeovers, & Painted Ladies!

Posted on 02/23/2009 20:31:00

Filler & Botox Specials! Amazing Savings!

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Posted on 02/19/2009 15:31:00

February 2nd Open House

Face the Winter Blues!-Monday, February 2nd, 6:00-8:30pm Turn the Winter Blues into a Winter Glow. Share a warm and cozy evening as Dr. Dean Kane cover the aging of the face and ways to rejuvinate and tighten facial wrinkling,  pigmentation, and skin laxity. Discussion topics will include: Botox, Fillers, and the range of surgical face-lifting interventions that can stop and reverse the aging process. To effectively achieve anti-aging of the face, the successful Emerge Skin Care Program and Medi-Spa treatments performed by Felicia and Deborah that tighten, smooth and clear the skin, will be covered. If you would like to attend please RSVP by phone or email.                                                                                               410-602-3322 Lauri@DrDeanKane.com We hope to see you there!  

Posted on 12/19/2008 12:51:00

Dr. Dean Kane's "Be Kissable for Christmas" Promotion

Posted on 12/10/2008 16:10:00

Holiday Open House and Sexy Santa Momma Workshop

HOLIDAY PARTY WITH DR DEAN KANE, LAURI KANE AND STAFF MONDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 6-8:30 PM   CELEBRATE FUN CHEER, GREAT FOOD AND DELICIOUS DRINKS. LEARN FROM OTHER SEXY SANTA MOMMAS HOW DR DEAN KANE TRANSFORMED THEM INTO THEIR DREAM BODIES!!!   SEE OUR ATTACHMENT FOR OUR SEXY SANTA MOMMA WORKSHOP!!! PLEASE INVITE FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO SHARE IN WITH THE GREAT FUN AND FOOD.    Women who had tummy tucks, liposuctions and breast surgeries will be available to talk to you about their surgical results and their St. Nick experiences!!!! PLEASE  RSVP: 410-602-3322 OR LAURI@DRDEANKANE.COM COME CELBRATE WITH US!!! Looking forward to seeing everyone, Lauri Kane    

Posted on 12/03/2008 17:54:00