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Absolute Beauty : A Renowned Plastic Surgeon's Guide to Looking Young Forever

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This book, written by one of the top plastic surgeons around today, promises to provide its readers with the information needed to look their best as they continue to age. It offers guidance on how to slow down the aging process by incorporating lifestyle changes (skin care, exercise, healthy eating, etc.) and if needed how to turn back the clock with medical/surgical assistance. The author defines the different kinds of plastic surgery options for the face, discusses their effects and suggests who would be the ideal candidate for each procedure. He also talks about non-surgical options such as Botox and wrinkle fillers. The book also touches upon current skin care fads and the author weighs in on whether they are effective or not.

Now to my opinion...
This book is poorly organized, and makes for very dull reading, probably more suitable to a medical school lecture than to the average person reading this book. Dr. Imber is a celebrity plastic surgeon, and yet he didn't include one juicy celebrity anecdote in the 150 pages of text! More importantly there are few bullet points or checklists and they are buried in the pages so good luck finding them. For someone who claims to understand how confusing the world of anti-aging is today, he didn't seem to care about making his own book user friendly. I felt like he rambled on about the specific chemical compounds of wrinkle fillers while neglecting the real concerns the readers would have such as when to use this, what to try first, what to avoid and give me real life examples of what to expect, and make it easy to find again when I need to refer to it.
Most unforgivably of all he includes only matte black and white pictures! It is nearly impossible to discern between the before and after or to notice the progression of wrinkles that he is discussing.
Finally at the end he includes three, only three, real-life case studies. A younger woman, a middle-age woman, and an older woman. None of their skin problems was remotely like mine, and no pictures accompanied his before and after discussion.

I recommend instead Your Future Face by Dennis Gross M.D. It provides what this book lacks and has been very helpful.