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A well-known, award winning ENT & Facial Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeon based in Harley Street. Practicing in aesthetic industry for more than 14 years and operated more than 2000 surgeries in Istanbul, UK and Cyprus.
His special interest and consistent good results in surgical and non-surgical rhinoplasty featured on Channel 4 and Channel 5 and awarded him the “Nose King” title by his patients.
He also published his own suture techniques for Rhinoplasty and advanced techniques in non-surgical Rhinoplasty in world known aesthetic journals.
He is also a KOL (key opinion leader) for non-surgical Butt lift and body contouring with using fillers. He runs regular hands on training on ” Surgical & Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty” and ” Non-Surgical Butt Lift and Body Contouring”. Also, he has popular online training modules for most advanced non-surgical treatments.
He is also CEO and Founder of Virtual Aesthetic Doctor which is the world’s first aesthetic training application with Virtual Reality (VR).
He is the main Non-surgical Rhinoplasty trainer in Wigmore Medical and he has his own online and hands on training courses.

Buttock augmentation is one of the most popular aesthetic treatment trends in the last decade. Surgery also known as Brazilian Butt Lift ( BBL ) became the most popular body surgery including a liposuction, processing the fat and transferring the fat into buttocks which improves the size, shape, and contour of the buttocks while making tummy, waist, or thighs smaller1.
Butt enhancement can also be achieved by using silicone implants inserted through or underneath the buttocks muscles.
Since Poly-L-lactic acid (Sculptra) gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for use in human immunodeficiency virus-related facial lipoatrophy in August of 20042 non-surgical options for butt lifting and enhancement started to become popular.
Nowadays search for better non-surgical way of butt enhancement brought Hyaluronic acid-based products which are specifically designed for butt enhancement got approved by CE and getting more popular every day.

FAT TRANSFER VS BUTT IMPLANTS VS POLY L LACTIC ACID VS HYALURONIC ACID FILLERS?
Which one is safer?
Which one is more effective?
Which one is more cost effective?
Which one is longer lasting?
Which one is easier to perform safely?
When comparing implants with fat grafting, fat grafting with liposuction can be considered more safe, natural, and effective for butt enhancement and contouring which is easier to perform than the implants3. No risk for rejection or implant complications but on the other hand it needs a surgical intervention, general anaesthesia and intravascular complication risks which can be even mortal4.
When comparing fat transfer with non-surgical butt enhancement like fillers or Poly L- lactic acid injections, fat transfer needs processing and processing step can effect both results and longevity which is is not very superior than fillers7 and post procedure complications like infection, intravascular complications, embolism is higher with fat grafting as the fat injections are usually deeper under the muscle5. Although there is no research about it, surgeon believes cellulite development is more common with fat transfer because of increasing fat density in the area.
When comparing the Poly L lactic acid injections with hyaluronic acid injections, as the main goal of the treatment is volume replacement or enhancement or contouring, high projection and volumizing capacity hyaluronic acid filler is preferred6.
Available Hyaluronic acid-based fillers in the market consists: ( Genefill Contour)

Hyaluronic Acid Sodium Salt
2 mg

Cross-linked HA Sodium Salt
20 mg

Sodium Chloride
6.9 mg

Water for Injection Ad
1 ml

HA Particle Size
200-350 µm

Like other biphasic hyaluronic acid-based products, reabsorption rate is around 18/24 months. The lifestyle and exercise can affect the lasting time of this product8.

PATIENT SELECTION

Square and V shape is more masculine and rounder and heart shape is more feminine.
Body fillers are best indicated for enhancement of the upper and middle thirds of the buttocks and the lateral trochanteric depressions (hip dips).
As you can imagine surgeon recommends not injecting the lower part of the buttock because it will make the area heavier and cause more saggy look.

Contraindications include:
Severe skin laxity especially in the lower portion in elderly patients
Ptosis of lower third of the gluteal area
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Infections in the area
Allergy to lidocaine or hyaluronic acid
Patients with high blood pressure or cardiac problems due to high sodium amount in the product
As there is no published article about butt fillers in patients who had fat transfer or butt implants, surgeon recommends that products should be injected carefully and slowly as there will be lots of scarring, fibrotic attachments in the area which will make the injections harder and spreading the product equally will be less possible and blood supply can be further decreased because of high volume of fillers compressing the blood vessels against the implants.

TREATMENT PLANNING

Marking needs to be done while the patients are standing. Deepest points and borders of injection is marked before injecting the anaesthetics. Gluteal skin and fat thickness are important when planning the treatment. This is important for cannula length and injection depth while injecting. Analysis revealed a significant difference in gluteal region fat thickness between male and female subjects. The average gluteal fat thickness for female subjects is 33.2 mm, the

A quicker and more efficient way for Dubai residents to apply for their alcohol licence has been launched.

The new smart card application process is paper-free and no longer requires tenancy agreements, NOCs, or letters from employees, now all you need to do is take your valid Emirates ID into any A+E or MMI store.

Non-Muslim residents, above the legal drinking age of 21 years, will be able to apply for their alcohol licence which allows them to consume, purchase, or transport alcohol in Dubai.

Residents who currently hold the existing red card licence will need to replace it with the new black smart licence by August 31, with the older licences no longer valid for in-store or online purchases from September.

Card replacement will be subject to a AED25 fee which is redeemable on in-store purchases, or customers can apply to process their annual licence renewal early and the remaining months left on the red card will be added to the new black card.

Mike Glen, managing director MMI – UAE & Oman, said: “Getting a licence has now become so much easier. By transitioning to the new system, the amount of paperwork involved has been dramatically reduced. We’re always looking for new ways to make the shopping experience as simple as possible and keep our customers on the right side of the law. There is always a great range of promotions in-store and on LegalHomeDelivery.com, so our customers will always have access to authentic and legal products that are underpinned by a quality guarantee.

“Everyone who wants to transport and consume alcohol, at home, in a bar or restaurant, needs to abide by the law and make sure they have a licence.”

The cost of the licence is unchanged and remains at AED270.

Dubai’s commitment and investment towards creating a knowledge and innovation-based economy has steadily borne fruit, especially in the current environment driven by the Covid pandemic.

From the use of AI in multiple sectors to smart devices to 3-D printing technology, Dubai’s emphasis on innovation has made the Emirate one of the global technology and innovation hubs and a case study on how investment in the sphere of technology can propel economic growth despite a multitude of challenges.

The ubiquitous use of smart helmets by Dubai police that allows scanning the temperatures of hundreds of people within a few minutes is one novel initiative that amplifies Emirate’s ability to leverage technology in dealing with a pandemic-like crisis. “These helmets have thermal sensors and it can record the temperatures of up to 200 people per minute,” say police officers deployed on special pandemic duty. These intelligent helmets, according to them, have two cameras and provide infrafred thermal images from a distance of 5 meters. “We can easily detect those with high temperatures and shift them to the nearest medical facility with the help of paramedics,” they point out.

Dubai’s weapon against Covid-19 is not confined to smart helmets alone. It also used 3D printing technology to manufacture low-cost face shields which played a huge role in arresting the spread of the novel coronavirus. Immensa Labs, headquartered in Dubai, and an undisputed leader in the MENA region in additive manufacture has been on the forefront of Dubai’s fight against Covid-19 by manufacturing and supplying face shields.

It all started in March when Immensa CEO Fahmi Al Shwaa discovered that some people were putting up higher prices for face shields taking advantage of the shortage in supply. “One morning around 11, he asked us whether we could do something about it. And, by evening we 3D printed 10 units of face shields,” recalls Immensa COO Axel Fernandes in an interview with ET NOW. The doctors who saw the product, needless to say, were greatly impressed. “From March till now, we started off with doctors, institutions and hospitals and we went from manufacturing 10 units to a couple of millions within a short duration of time and that was possible only because of 3D printing,” adds Fernandes.

Smart Dubai seeks to make Dubai the happiest city on earth. Participation from all city stakeholders — residents, visitors, business owners, parents, and families — is a cornerstone of the strategy. This goal will be carried out by leveraging a wide range of technologies including blockchain, AI, IoT, and by focusing on three strategic pillars: government efficiency, industry creation, and international leadership.
Collaborating with private sector and government partners, Smart Dubai was established to empower, deliver and promote an efficient, seamless, safe and impactful city experience for residents and visitors. To achieve its strategic pillars, Smart Dubai aims to introduce initiatives and develop partnerships to contribute to its Smart Economy, Smart Living, Smart Governance, Smart Environment, Smart People and Smart Mobility dimensions.

Dubai aims to be the “first city fully powered by blockchain by 2021.” The Dubai Blockchain 2020 Mandate, spearheaded by the Smart Dubai Office, establishes a roadmap for the introduction of blockchain technology in Dubai. Its goals include: achieve efficiency by using blockchain in 100% of applicable government services, creating and enabling blockchain ecosystem for startups and businesses, and to become a global thought leader by piloting cross-border blockchain cases.

Indian entrepreneurs keen on joining the tour have time till August 5 to register their interest online. The virtual trade mission that provides 15 promising Indian fintech and healthcare startups an opportunity to pitch their innovative business concepts is slated for September second week. Dubai has been making meaningful efforts to attract strong interest and participation from startups in India since its strategic decision to transform itself into a knowledge-based innovation hub. The virtual trade mission slated for September second week aims to drive collaboration between the UAE and India in the areas of fintech and healthcare. Dubai Technology Tour organised in partnership with Startup India and Mumbai Fintech Hub, a press release issued by the Dubai Chamber said, will familiarise delegates with Dubai’s economy and business environment.

As part of this new initiative, 15 promising Indian financial and healthcare technology startups will get an opportunity. The Technology Tour, interestingly, follows Dubai Startup Hub’s Roadshow last year to New Delhi and Bangalore. The roadshow organised in 2019 in cooperation with Dubai Technology Enterpreneur Campus (Dtec), the largest hub of its kind in the region and wholly owned by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), as part of a competition had selected two Indian startups and awarded them office space at Dtec.
Omar Khan, Director, International Offices at Dubai Chamber, says the idea is to pave ..

With less than six weeks before the launch of the UAE’s Hope mission to Mars the project has provided a model for the development of other important sectors in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and agriculture technology.

Sarah Al Amiri, the UAE’s Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and Deputy Project Manager of the Emirates Mars Mission, told a webinar with London’s Science Museum on Monday that the mission is poised to answer unique scientific questions while on Mars.

The effects of the work, carried out at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai and on Mars, is a pillar of the future of the UAE economy.

“The UAE is currently working towards its diversification plan, a diversification plan for the economy as a whole,” she said. “The development of knowledge-intensive sectors has become key to the economy.”

On July 15 the UAE probe will launch its 495,000,000 kilometre journey to reach and orbit the Red Planet, less than a year after Hazza Al Mansouri blasted off to the International Space Station last September. It has taken just six years from conception to launch, half the time of other Mars projects.

Omran Sharaf, project manager of the Emirates Mars Mission, also spoke at the session and discussed how the probe has been designed to give hope to 100 million Arab youths around the region.

He said the purpose was building the knowledge economy, something that was a national priority leading up to the country’s golden jubilee next year.

“We wanted to focus on 50th anniversary,” Mr Sharaf said. “It is a message not only to the Emirati youth but also the youth of the region.

“Given your history, given your achievements in the past, you can do much more.”

Highlighting a commitment to establish human settlements on Mars by 2117, Mr Sharaf said the goal was to give a framework for future ambition and achievement.

“It is like a 100-year commitment to the Emirati youth that you’re going to have jobs in science,” he said. “We do have a long-term vision for the long-term development of this mission and the UAE economy,” he said. “That’s why we try to include different aspects of the economy in this mission.”

The minister said the mission had been purposely built to be complementary for other missions.

It would focus on the reason for atmospheric “floss” by examining the correlation between Mars’s lower and upper atmosphere. The instruments are designed to collect data on dust storms and water loss.

“What we are doing is studying the weather on Mars for an entire Martian year,” she said.

Sir Ian Blatchford, director of London’s Science Museum Group, said the hurdles to be overcome in getting to Mars were among the hardest posed by space exploration.

“You can’t just launch to Mars whenever you feel like it,” he said. “You can only when there is a window for the launch.

In particular he said the mission chosen by the UAE was the first “wholistic” survey of the planet’s atmosphere.

“It is an enormous feat of national pride but also an enormous contribution of sharing the data it yields,” he said.

Scientists who are resident in the UAE have played a role is shaping the nature of the mission, added Ms Al Amiri. “The data from this mission will be publicly available in due time and we are always interested in collaboration,” she said.

Covering Innovation in Insurance

Dubai-founded high-tech insurance digital network firm Elesco is disrupting the insurance game with the launch of a platform that will allow for more efficient underwriting, real-time data analytics and lower costs.

Enter Elseco

From his office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Laurent Lemaire, CEO and founder of Elesco says the new ATOM platform, the result of a partnership between Elesco and tech giant SAP, says the digital network is “the most advanced underwriting insurance platform in the world”. Created and developed in Dubai, the system is a first for the Insurtech sector, the insurance arm of fintech (financial technology).

Elseco, which was launched in Dubai 12 years ago by French national Lemaire, is now the largest insurance underwriting company in the world in space and among the top 10 for aviation. The technology-driven firm also has its hand in energy, but with the new, fully scalable ATOM system, which will make communication between customers, agents and insurers seamless. Elseco has opened a door to insurance for many other sectors.

“We started from scratch as a private venture in Dubai and Elseco is now the largest satellite insurance provider in the world,” says Lemaire. “High-technology insurance is a difficult market to crack and cracking it from Dubai was unique,” he says. “Insurance is a US$4.5 trillion dollar market, but from a technical standpoint, we haven’t embraced new technology as much as some other industries. It’s fairly complex and it’s not the easiest market to disrupt,” he adds. “That’s what we’ve been doing at Elseco the last few years.”

 

According to an Accenture analysis of CB Insights, a global venture-finance data and analytics firm, global investment in fintech ventures in 2017 totalled US$27.4 billion, up 18 per cent from 2016, predominantly due to a surge in funding startups in the US, UK and India. While investments in startups developing payments and lending solutions each accounted for about 30 per cent of the total, those offering insurance-related services (insurtech) accounted for 12 per cent of the funds.

 

A first for the fintech industry, the new ATOM platform will redefine insurance underwriting and streamline the experience for customers and insurers. “By using technology, you can give clients a better product at the same price or the same product at a cheaper price. It’s so integrated, which means that things go can from one end to the other without human intervention. That keeps the costs very low,” he explains. “Suddenly you’ve got a platform that people are going to use for their own business and they can grow their business more efficiently. This should allow for a better product and more margins. We expect that in the coming months, many more companies will join the ATOM network,” he says.

City Credited for Entrepreneurial Value

Lemaire’s vision of Elseco is for the ATOM digital network to be embraced as “the Amazon of insurance” and he credits Dubai’s entrepreneurial mindset and forward-thinking for the firm’s innovative growth. “In Dubai, there’s a can-do attitude,” he says. “Dubai has been very good in helping to translate a vision, constantly improving things and aiming for what it sees as the best. When I came to Dubai for the first time, I knew it was the kind of environment I wanted to be in,” says Lemaire.

“Being based in Dubai allows me to keep working with the US and Europe but to also work with Asia. It was very easy for the family to settle in and the small time difference with Europe is easy to manage,” he says. “DIFC itself is a nice and convenient environment to work in and they’ve created an ambience that’s very different from what you can find not only in the GCC, but also elsewhere.”