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BELIEVING IN THE SAFE AND PROVEN

TECHNIQUES OF COSMETIC GYNECOLOGY

By Bill Kress

These days, you just can’t So when Urogynecologist Dr. Jaime use of lasers in the vagina, under the
believe everything you read, Sepulveda learned that energy-based heading of vaginal rejuvenation.”
especially when it comes to your health medical devices were being falsely The root of the problem, he says, is
and well-being – and even more so touted as FDA-approved for use in that marketing terms like rejuvenation,
when it’s about questionable medical so-called vaginal “rejuvenation,” he designer-vaginoplasty, and revirgination
procedures in the field of cosmetic took it as a call to action – to stress are giving room to a whole host
gynecology. the importance of open and honest of procedures that have not been
dialog with patients considering vaginal scientifically proven to be beneficial.
DR. JAIME SEPULVEDA cosmetic surgery. A pioneer in his field, Dr. Sepulveda
Bogus media reports began has been conducting cosmetic
surfacing last year describing fractional gynecological for 25 years. He is
carbon dioxide laser as “approved” by devoted to providing only evidence
the U.S. Food & Drug Administration based procedures – a principal of his
for the treatment of vulvovaginal practice that he regularly conveys to his
atrophy. Immediately, the FDA spoke up. patients.
The agency issued a stern alert to the “At every opportunity, I explain to
medical community in July 2018 that them what the evidence shows and
such clams were entirely untrue. why evidence is so important. That is
“They came on stronger and what the referring physicians have come
swifter that I have ever seen,” says Dr. to expect,” he says. “And that is why my
Sepulveda, “in their warning against the practice is so successful.”
With a sub-specialty in
urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive
surgery, Dr. Sepulveda’s practice is
located in the heart of South Miami’s
medical district at 6200 Sunset Drive.
So not only are women being lulled
by marketing lingo into undergoing
potentially unsafe procedures, he says
rejuvenation is actually a myth!

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