Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

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Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
Ground Floor Suite
56 Harley Street
London W1G 9QA
Tel : +44 (0) 20 7637 4455
(after 2:00 p.m. GMT from UK)
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7637 4475

Laurence Kirwan MD, FRCS is a pioneering aesthetic plastic surgeon and one of the world’s most skilled and highly qualified. He offers a superior level of knowledge, care and expertise to help you achieve the look you want.

Prof. Kirwan has clinics in Harley Street, London and in New York and Connecticut, USA. He specialises in aesthetic plastic surgery of the face, breast and body.

Laurence Kirwan was born in Liverpool in the north-west of England. He graduated in Medicine in 1974 from the Victoria University of Manchester, one of Britain’s most distinguished universities, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1979.

Prof. Kirwan spent over six years training in general surgery in England, Australia and the United States. To become a plastic surgeon with special qualifications in plastic surgery, he then completed a two-year Residency in Plastic Surgery at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where his teacher was Frederick J. McCoy, one of the founders of plastic surgery in the United States.

Today, Prof. Kirwan is widely regarded as an expert in surgery of the face, breast and body, and is credited as being one of the first physicians to practice Botox injections in the UK. In addition to being a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, he is also a Professor of Plastic Surgery of the International School of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and holds the Diploma of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

For the past ten years Prof. Kirwan has limited his practice to aesthetic plastic surgery of the face, breast and body – apart from his work with charities, where he has donated his surgical skills to perform reconstructive surgery in cases of birth defects and war injuries. He has published numerous articles, is a regular speaker on his areas of expertise and currently teaches aesthetic plastic surgery to plastic surgeons who have completed their residency training in the New York and London.

The January 2006 issue of Russian Vogue listed Prof. Kirwan as one of the Top 20 Plastic Surgeons, worldwide. He was named one of Tatler Magazine’s “Top Surgeons” in their 2004, 2007 and 2008 Cosmetic Surgery Guides. Named in the Evening Standard’s “The 1000 London’s Most Influential People 2007 & 2008” . Included in "The World’s Top Surgeons & Clinics" published by 'Beyond Black Publications" 2007.


Laser Hair Removal

The most effective solution for dark coarse hair appearing in places such as the face, neck, abdomen, breasts, legs and underarms is the new Light Sheer Diode Laser. This is the world's most advanced treatment of unwanted hair replacing conventional plucking, shaving, waxing or chemical depilatories. The time and amount of treatments vary from person to person.

In the past, the usual remedies for unwanted hair were plucking, shaving, waxing, or chemical depilatories. Some are painful, some are messy, and all are only temporary.

For long-term hair removal, electrolysis is popular and effective but can be uncomfortable and slow. Hair by hair, an electric current passes through a needle to destroy the hair root’s ability to grow. It typically takes months or more of regular visits — even for small areas, like the upper lip.

Now there’s a more effective solution, the new LightSheer Diode Laser, a state-of-the-art system specially designed to remove unwanted hair faster, with less discomfort, and more reliably than many other methods.

A laser produces a beam of highly concentrated light. Different types of lasers produce different colors of light. The color of light produced by a particular laser is one of the keys to its effect on hair follicles.

The light emitted by the LightSheer Diode Laser is well absorbed by the pigment located in hair follicles. The laser pulses for a fraction of a second, just long enough to vaporize the pigment, disabling numerous follicles at a time to eliminate or significantly impede the hair’s regrowth.

Importantly, LightSheer’s special contact-cooling handpiece is perfect for a woman’s sensitive skin. It protects and cools the upper layer of the skin before, during, and after each pulse while directing the laser energy to the hair root. The combination of this aggressive skin cooling and other key laser parameters allows safe and effective treatment of all skin colors.

What you can expect

The length of a laser session may be a few minutes to an hour or more, depending on the size of the area being treated. Because the laser tends to treat hair follicles that are in an active growth phase, more than one treatment may be required to disable hair follicles that subsequently enter this growth phase.

Laser treatment itself may cause a slight tingling sensation. Most patients tolerate the procedure well. But because some areas of the body are more sensitive than others, topical anesthesia can be an option.

The appearance of the treated area immediately after a laser session will vary from patient to patient depending on the extent of treatment and skin type. Immediate after-effects, if any, are minor. They may include redness and swelling, which disappear in a short time. Most people return to normal activity right away. We will be happy to tell you more about your treatment and what you can expect during your consultation.

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