Saturday, August 18, 2018

YouTube not a reliable resource for plastic surgery info
An analysis using keyword searches on YouTube for popular facial plastic surgery procedures revealed that many videos were part of marketing campaigns posted by non-qualified medical professionals, researchers reported in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery. Many of the most-viewed videos contained biased information, lacked balanced information regarding risks and benefits and offered potentially misleading information about the practitioner's qualifications, and even some posted by board-certified surgeons were marketing tools designed to look like educational videos, the researchers found.