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Ljswave Posted 13 years ago
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I can't see what the bold words mean in #1.Please help me~
I read and heard the news about a plastic surgery below
but, I can't see what the bold words mean in #1.
#1. The procedure costs about three-thousand dollars, is not covered by insurance, and is nothing new.
I'm gonna attach all of the news for the understanding of the context.
----------The whole script goes like:
Friends joke with him about looking tired or staying out late even when he’s wide awake.
“When I look in the mirror, you know, I do see the puffiness and it gets annoying after awhile.”
Twenty-nine year old Greg McCool says it’s genetic. His father has under-eye puffiness and so did his thirty-two year old brother, until a year ago.
“My brother, Matt, after seeing the results of, I was really impressed, and I was like, I definitely have to get that done.”
Today, it’s Greg’s turn. He’s come to New York Cityplastic surgeon, Dr. Amiya Prasad, to undergo a minimally invasive procedure to correct the bags under his eyes.
“We used a radio-frequency-wave technology to get into the fat pockets and very cleanly close the blood vessels and do this so there was almost no bleeding at all.” “Taking a lot of fat out.” It takes just ten minutes per eye for Dr. Prasad to remove the fat pockets under Greg’s lower eyelids.
“You are going to do the ice packs today and tomorrow.”
Patients can go back to work the next day, but full recovery takes about two weeks.
- “What a difference that is.”
The procedure costs about three-thousand dollars, is not covered by insurance, and is nothing new.
What’s surprising is Greg’s age.
“Or in younger males, a rhinoplasty, or a nose job, is a common procedure, almost as common as it is in young women.”
But, eyelid surgeries in young men are rare. Last year, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery says only about eleven hundred were performed on men, under the age of thirty-four. And, among men thirty-five to fifty, it’s the third most common procedure. In New York, Todd Connor.
but, I can't see what the bold words mean in #1.
#1. The procedure costs about three-thousand dollars, is not covered by insurance, and is nothing new.
I'm gonna attach all of the news for the understanding of the context.
----------The whole script goes like:
Friends joke with him about looking tired or staying out late even when he’s wide awake.
“When I look in the mirror, you know, I do see the puffiness and it gets annoying after awhile.”
Twenty-nine year old Greg McCool says it’s genetic. His father has under-eye puffiness and so did his thirty-two year old brother, until a year ago.
“My brother, Matt, after seeing the results of, I was really impressed, and I was like, I definitely have to get that done.”
Today, it’s Greg’s turn. He’s come to New York Cityplastic surgeon, Dr. Amiya Prasad, to undergo a minimally invasive procedure to correct the bags under his eyes.
“We used a radio-frequency-wave technology to get into the fat pockets and very cleanly close the blood vessels and do this so there was almost no bleeding at all.” “Taking a lot of fat out.” It takes just ten minutes per eye for Dr. Prasad to remove the fat pockets under Greg’s lower eyelids.
“You are going to do the ice packs today and tomorrow.”
Patients can go back to work the next day, but full recovery takes about two weeks.
- “What a difference that is.”
The procedure costs about three-thousand dollars, is not covered by insurance, and is nothing new.
What’s surprising is Greg’s age.
“Or in younger males, a rhinoplasty, or a nose job, is a common procedure, almost as common as it is in young women.”
But, eyelid surgeries in young men are rare. Last year, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery says only about eleven hundred were performed on men, under the age of thirty-four. And, among men thirty-five to fifty, it’s the third most common procedure. In New York, Todd Connor.
Top answer
This is plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons only (not health-related reasons), and in the US, plastic surgery that is cosmetic only is not covered by heath insurance. The underlined sentence means: the surgery costs $3000; the patient must pay all of this out of his own pocket, with no participating payment from his heath insurance company, since it is for cosmetic reasons only; and the procedure is well-established and has been done for years, and is not something new and experimental (however, the article points out that if there is anything about it that is "new," it is the age of the patient, and his gender - this type of procedure is rarely done in the US on men under 34).
- This is plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons only (not health-related reasons), and in the US, plastic surgery that is cosmetic only is not covered by heath insurance.
- The underlined sentence means: the surgery costs $3000; the patient must pay all of this out of his own pocket, with no participating payment from his heath insurance company, since it is for cosmetic reasons only; and the procedure is well-established and has been done for years, and is not something new and experimental (however, the article points out that if there is anything about it that is "new," it is the age of the patient, and his gender - this type of procedure is rarely done in the US on men under 34).
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This is plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons only (not health-related reasons), and in the US, plastic surgery that is cosmetic only is not covered by heath insurance.
The underlined sentence means: the surgery costs $3000; the patient must pay all of this out of his own pocket, with no participating payment from his heath insurance company, since it is for cosmetic reasons only; and the
The underlined sentence means: the surgery costs $3000; the patient must pay all of this out of his own pocket, with no participating payment from his heath insurance company, since it is for cosmetic reasons only; and the
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An0nymousThe underlined sentence means: the surgery costs $3000; the patient must pay all of this out of his own pocket, with no participating payment from his heath insurance company, since it is for cosmetic reasons only; and the procedure is well-established and has been done for years, and is not something new and experimental (however, the article points out that if
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The "is nothing new" apparently serves as a link to the last part of the article, where it stresses that the procedure is rare in men of his age.
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ljswaveIf I asked you just like this, "What is the meaning of " nothing new" in that sentence?"Are you going to reply just like this ," the procedure is well-established and has been done for years, and is not something new and experimental "?Yes, I would interpret that the procedure is not newly developed, and is very routine. Thus it is likely safe with few
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