A polypropylene barbed suture material is now available to allow oculoplastic surgeons to perform minimally invasive brow lift procedures. The self-anchoring Contour Threads, distributed by Surgical ...

Dec. 3, 2004 --- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a surgical tag system to minimize surgical errors with respect to patient, site, and procedure; a self-anchoring (barbed) ...

With stress, pollution and sedentary living becoming an inevitable part of one’s lifestyle, skin ageing signs have begun showing up even before 30. Threads are inserted on the brow for the lids.” ...

Oprah Winfrey promoted the new barbed-suture facelift as a "one-hour lunch-break lift" and a "cutting-edge procedure with no cutting edges." Good Morning America called it "one of the hottest new ...