The convenience of online purchasing
Technology is a great thing. Convenience abounds everywhere. Taxi hailing apps. Couriers bringing food and other needed household items via bicycle or scooter. Everything is available at the tap of a button. And it’s not even a real button – it’s a click on a virtual button! Well now your healthcare is accessible through […]
Breast Augmentation Video
Here, in another installment of our surgical video library, we review three potential risks of breast augmentation surgery. Not only will we discuss the risks, we’ll show you how to avoid them via a GoPro head-mounted video camera. A breast augmentation can be a very straightforward procedure in the right hands. The important thing […]
Purchasing healthcare online: The next frontier
As consumers shoulder greater responsibility for a portion of their healthcare via high deductible health plans (HDHP), they’ll start to be more discerning as to what they purchase. Back when most charges were covered by insurance, there was no incentive to make intelligent purchases. With more out-of-pocket expenses, the consumer has every reason to […]
Price transparency at your fingertips
Who would have thought it possible just a few years ago?! Price transparency in healthcare was a thing considered to hard to accomplish. But now it’s here! BuildMyBod has found a way to give consumers and physicians what they want. Consumers get pricing info from doctors near them and doctors get a consumer lead for […]
BuildMyBod CEO speaking at ASAPS meeting today!
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) is hosting their annual meeting from May 14th to May 19th in Montreal. Today, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, the CEO/Founder of BuildMyBod will be presenting his results showing the effectiveness of doctors providing their pricing online. These unprecedented statistics on the power of price transparency as a […]
New treatment for a double chin
As I discussed the other day here, the Kybella injection to dissolve under-chin fat and remove your double chin is coming out in June. Here’s a quick refresher of what it can do. Kybella uses the chemical deoxycholic acid to dissolve fat. This isn’t a new chemical, it’s naturally produced in the body, but it is […]
Medical Slang: Muffin Top
In a new series of blog posts, we’ll be highlighting common slang terms within the medical field and discussing their causes and treatments. First up: the muffin top! The muffin top, as humorously depicted to the left is excess fat in the flank area that hangs over the tops of your jeans. Sure you […]
Dissolve fat with an injection!
The latest and greatest is here! Now it’s time to see if the new Kybella treatment to dissolve fat in the neck/under the chin is all it’s cracked up to be. A recent NY Times article talks about this newly approved injection that can dissolve fat with injections but no surgery. Kybella uses the […]
How-Old.net guesses how old you are!
The website how-old.net is all the buzz right now. By uploading a selfie or any photo of yourself, the site can guess your gender and how old you look. Interestingly, it’s not a new startup company but rather, produced by Microsoft. This is Microsoft’s latest foray into machine learning and essentially making computers, websites […]
BuildMyBod CEO speaking at ASPS Aesthetica Today!
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is hosting their annual Aesthetica meeting from April 30th to May 2nd in Las Vegas. Today, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, the CEO/Founder of BuildMyBod will be presenting his results showing the effectiveness of doctors providing their pricing online. These unprecedented statisics on the power of price transparency as […]