Riverbanks Clinic’s very own Doctor Jain was interviewed by Adrian Richards for the Cosmetic Courses blog.

Inthis interview Ravi discusses:

• His reasons for changing his career path from a GP to a full time Aesthetic practitioner
• His advice on how to set up a successful clinic
• Tips on how to survive the recession
• His thoughts on how to constantly improve quality within your practice

Listen now!

We’re often asked this question when patients come for their initial consultation, and it’s a valid question!

It’s not a matter of ‘better’ per se; they are very different methods of removing fat from the body. Smart Lipo has some advantages over traditional liposuction, but none over VASER. Vaser works differently in the way that it removes the fat and has more advantages than convention lipo and Smart laser solutions.

Simply put, Smart Lipo uses a laser to break up the fat, whereas VASER Lipo uses ultrasound technology. VASER Lipo has demonstrated excellent recovery times, because it does not damage blood vessels, nerves or connective tissues when it is melting the fat. Also, VASER is much more specific for fat than any other modality. With VASER the surgeon can treat small or large areas whereas Smartlipo is more limited to smaller areas.

VASER Lipo is performed under local anaesthesia and greatly reduce risk and recovery times, compared with traditional liposuction.

Interested in Vaser Lipo?

Make an enquiry or call our friendly team now on 01582 762 877  to arrange a consultation with Vaser Lipo specialist Dr Ravi Jain.

Last week I was privileged to be invited to attend a global experts meeting in Miami for a leading dermal filler company. Being the only UK doctor, I was quite apprehensive as the delegate list included doctors whose work I have admired and whose research has paved the way forward for the aesthetic speciality. The meeting was extremely educational on numerous levels and I felt I was able to contribute effectively on several topics.

However I was awestruck by the amount of research each of the American doctors had carried out to help advance our knowledge. The US Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) comes under a lot of criticism there, like the Care Quality Commission has done here in the UK, but what the FDA does create, is a culture to provide good evidence based medicine, more akin to NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) here in the UK.

In the US, the doctors strive to have work published in the peer-reviewed medical journals, and to have recognition from their colleagues from around the world. This culture is in stark contrast to how the British cosmetic doctors practice. Here, the most ‘visible’ doctors are just that. The ‘journals’ which they strive to be in are the consumer glossies, rather than the respected peer-review journals. This practice, goes all the way to the top of the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors (BACD) where highly experimental treatments are lauded in the consumer press before they have been established medically, all carefully planned to drive more business.

This is so wrong.

We are doctors, and if our ‘leaders’ don’t practice with ethics and have no desire to prove their latest claims then how can they be a good representation for us? The BACD should, in my opinion, be encouraging its members to lead the field in research rather than focussing on public relations to the consumer press.

We all treat hundreds if not thousands of patients each year so we all have the resources to collect data and develop some research. Research would provide both doctors and patients guidance on which treatments are effective, as well as keep newer treatments under appropriate scrutiny. So instead of striving for publication in “The Daily Mail” surely we should aim for the likes of “The Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology” or “The Journal of Dermatological Surgery”.  Any publication in these journals would prove much more credible for all involved providing security in true data rather than glory of the sometimes tainted press.

As I result, I have started several research projects and hope to present this data next year.

For more details, Dr Ravi Jain can be contacted on 01582 762 877, www.riverbanksclinic.co.uk & info@riverbanksclinic.co.uk

Not content with being one of the best Vaser practitioners in the UK, Doctor Jain is now delighted to announce that he is a vaser Lipo trainer as well!

After numerous recommendations within the industry, and due to the enormous number of patients he has treated with Vaser Lipo, Doctor Jain’s success rate means he is the ideal person to train other doctors on Vaser Lipo and it’s benefits.

Says Doctor Jain: “To me it means that I can be instrumental in trying to raise standards in the industry as well as help increase patient satisfaction and safety across Europe. We’re going to raising the bar with lipo training higher than any other lipo course in the uk!”

Watch this space for more news, and why not leave a comment below to congratulate Doctor Jain?

One of the things our patients talk about most is the fantastic aftercare and advice they get from Dr Ravi Jain. We don’t believe that once you’ve had your VASER Lipo we can forget about you, and we keep in touch to make sure things are going well and you’re taking our advice.

Below is a list of things you can do to ensure you get the best possible results after your treatment:

1. Wait 2 weeks before exercising again to allow bruising/swelling to settle down evenly and avoiding risk of accidental trauma.
2. Wear compression garment 24/7 for 3 weeks then 12 hrs a day for 3 more weeks.
3. Get a smaller garment once it loosens to help improve the body contour
4. If you can wear compression for longer (3 months) then do, to further ehance the contour.
5. Exercise regularly (after the first 2 weeks) and you will lose more fat and improve the drainage and definition.
6. Maintain a sensible, healthy diet.
7. Drink lots of water.
8. Use Accent Radiofrequency skin tightening programmes to further tighten the skin, reduce the body contour and smoothen out any potential unevenness.

If you’d like to talk to someone about Vaser Lipo, then vsit our website or give us a call on 01582 762877.

If you read Women & Home and Top Sante, you may have caught Dr Ravi Jain talking about ‘beauty snags’ and stretchmarks this month – we can’t reproduce the articles here unfortunately, so you’ll have to buy your own copy!

Dr Ravi also featured in an online article from AOL Living, talking as part of their “Top 10 Embarrassing Problems” feature – click here to read it now.

Quite a lot of coverage for Riverbanks and Dr Ravi Jain in May, including:

• Lots of coverage for our new Macrolane breast surgeon, in the National Post, Yahoo News, and the NY Daily News.
• On the Derma Health Institute blog, Dr Ravi Jain talked about the way that more people are turning to faster cosmetic procedures that can be done over a lunchtime.
• Following on from this, Beauty Pages featured an article Dr Ravi wrote about 20 Cosmetic Procedures You Could Do In Your Lunch Hour.
• The Daily Express quoted Dr Ravi in their feature on “Prepare for the Upturn”.
• Dr Ravi talked about teeth grinding in The Abu Dhabi National
• The fact that Vaser Lipo treatments were more common than Botox and Macrolane was featured in many places

Watch out for us in June!