Orange County Register Article:  December 9th, 2007 Excerpt:   by Columnist Colin Stewart

Beauty before age

Feature Patient photographed on cover : “Hair coloring is a given for blond, smooth-skinned Gail McClory, 59, formerly of Huntington Harbor and now of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. It's barely worth mentioning  a routine touch-up every three weeks.”

She puts plastic surgery in the same category as hair appointments and cosmetics, but with a longer interval in between.

So far, her looks have gotten several boosts from plastic surgeon Donald Altman at Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center. In the past nine years, he has performed a brow lift, a face-lift, and a tuneup face-lift on her.

And she adds, "I'll probably be back in another 10 years" for more work. After all, she doesn't want to look like her grandmother.

At McClory's current age, her grandmother had jowls and wrinkles.

"She looked like a grandmother," she says.

And, by modern standards, so does McClory, who is herself a step-grandmother.

"I'm not going to be called 'grandmother,'" she says.

“Plastic surgeon Altman says, "It's OK to age gracefully and to be accepting of one's inherent appearance."

"But he has learned to respect patients' wishes for making changes in their bodies, within the limits of what's medically appropriate, he says."

"Some plastic surgeons and dermatologists go much farther than Altman would. They urge patients to embrace the image of a bright, ageless future that can be achieved by frequent visits to the doctor's office."

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