What barbells and your nose may have in common …

Muscle & Fitness/Hers, March, 2004 by Jody Buffalo

Next time you lift a barbell, consider this: New advances in reconstructive surgery now allow noses to be rebuilt with the same materials as some barbells--titanium. In the past, damaged noses were repaired using cartilage, a substance that eventually gets broken down by the body and reabsorbed, causing possible changes in the nose structure. Now it's been shown that titanium is a better option. "Titanium is a perfect structural implant entity because it's extremely lightweight, yet very strong and virtually non-reactive," says Michael Evan Sachs, MD, founder and president of the American Society of Revisional Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in New York.

--J.B.