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So, is there a potential to use this for Beauty Treatments? Could people have older skin replaced with new younger skin? That idea and implementation would be

So, is there a potential to use this for Beauty Treatments? Could people have older skin replaced with new younger skin? That idea and implementation would be worth trillions....

an_aparallel 3y ago
and increase the shonky operators by a magnitude never before seen. The amount of f*ked up lip jobs happening in Sydney is appalling, and the "doctors" and "nurses" performing these should be ashamed. The industry is largely unregulated...skin would just be this x 1000.
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- Terr_ 3y ago
  That makes me think of dodgy treatments that can cause bone-chunks to grow in your eyelids.[0] [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stem-cell-cosmetics/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stem-cell-cosmeti...
BizarroLand 3y ago
That would be a hell of a treatment. Probably have to go into a Bacta tank like Luke Skywalker after nearly dying on Hoth, have a huge chunk of your skin just sliced off and regrown in situ. From the neck down, it would be inconvenient but not unbearable (other than needing a spinal block to prevent you from screaming nonstop for the first 2 weeks or so. You could probably handle the head and neck pretty well, too, but then when it came time for your face? That would be straight hell, assuming you wanted to have full sensation and not just a hunk of flesh strapped to your skull. Jesus, imagine your eyelids. Going without those for a while would be a terror. Any way you go, you're looking at a huge chunk of money and a lot of body horror just to come out the other side looking 16 years old again. I guess the upside is that it would be really easy to do liposuction and boob jobs and just about any other surgery you would ever want while you're already skinless and knocked out. I'd be tempted if it were $100,000. I don't have that kind of cash but I could handle the payments on a 7-10 year loan.

So, is there a potential to use this for Beauty Treatments? Could people have older skin replaced with new younger skin? That idea and implementation would be worth trillions....

an_aparallel 3y ago

and increase the shonky operators by a magnitude never before seen. The amount of f*ked up lip jobs happening in Sydney is appalling, and the "doctors" and "nurses" performing these should be ashamed. The industry is largely unregulated...skin would just be this x 1000.

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Terr_ 3y ago
That makes me think of dodgy treatments that can cause bone-chunks to grow in your eyelids.[0] [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stem-cell-cosmetics/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stem-cell-cosmeti...

BizarroLand 3y ago

That would be a hell of a treatment. Probably have to go into a Bacta tank like Luke Skywalker after nearly dying on Hoth, have a huge chunk of your skin just sliced off and regrown in situ. From the neck down, it would be inconvenient but not unbearable (other than needing a spinal block to prevent you from screaming nonstop for the first 2 weeks or so. You could probably handle the head and neck pretty well, too, but then when it came time for your face? That would be straight hell, assuming you wanted to have full sensation and not just a hunk of flesh strapped to your skull. Jesus, imagine your eyelids. Going without those for a while would be a terror. Any way you go, you're looking at a huge chunk of money and a lot of body horror just to come out the other side looking 16 years old again. I guess the upside is that it would be really easy to do liposuction and boob jobs and just about any other surgery you would ever want while you're already skinless and knocked out. I'd be tempted if it were $100,000. I don't have that kind of cash but I could handle the payments on a 7-10 year loan.