Waching daily Aug 1 2017

Mastering car control and having the ability to prevent your car from violently sliding off the road in inclement weather is an underappreciated skill

Doing it right requires practice and patience—and the right tools

In this case, we had the 2017 Dodge Charger Daytona and the Lime Rock Park skid pad at our disposal

And as a test subject, we had me—a young, overconfident driver who too often relies on all-wheel-drive as a crutch

Here\'s how it went

The Dodge Charger Daytona is an inspired choice for the skidpad

That day at Lime Rock, we also brought a Lexus RCF and a BMW M2, but chose the Daytona for the skid pad because of its cheap tires, undeniable ability to put power directly to its rear wheels, and the uncontrollable urge to put a muscle car sideways

As a semi-novice car slider, the RCF\'s throttle response was a bit too violent for mastering drifts and as for the M2, we wanted to save as much tire as possible for the autocross and big track

The specific Daytona that Dodge loaned us was equipped with the lesser-powered 370-horsepower, 5

7-liter V-8 HEMI instead of the 6

4-liter 392 motor

If you\'re not familiar with the Charger lineup, understand that it is a model of many variations

To name just a few, there\'s the Hellcat, Scat Pack, R/T, and now for 2017, the big-winged Daytona model has been revived once again

Only this time, there\'s no big wing

Though there\'s nothing like being shouted at by a 707-horsepower Hellcat motor, the 5

7 V-8 that our Daytona loaner had was prime for what we needed to do

Basically, this motor allowed us to drive without the car\'s rear wheels constantly spinning without traction, but still with as much hustle as we could possibly need on a backroad—or in this case, a skid pad

Speaking of backroads, we hustled up to Lime Rock on some of best backroads Northwest Connecticut has to offer

Surprisingly, the Charger\'s \"performance suspension\" setup from the Daytona package managed to keep the car together and let us hustle into corners with confidence

In fact, if our Daytona had rubber that had less roll-friendly sidewall than the 20-inch all-seasons tires that were mounted, then we would\'ve been set

Either way, even with the spongey all seasons, the car handled itself surprisingly well

And unlike with the M2, we didn\'t feel bad about burning the Daytona\'s squishy rubber

So it turned out, there wasn\'t really much to pitching the Daytona sideways

Though I anticipated spending much of the morning getting acquainted with the bright orange muscle car on the slick surface, I didn\'t really need it

As the skid pad became slicker and slicker, I brought the Daytona further up in speed so I could feel out the car\'s limits without attempting to force understeer with steering or throttle inputs

I decided I had enough of that rather quickly, so I began attempting lift-off oversteer

By lifting off the throttle mid-corner, some of the Daytona\'s weight pushed forward—off the rear-end and toward the front of the car—which helped pitch the rear-end out

Once it broke free, I countered with the steering wheel

This exercise made for solid car control practice, but didn\'t exactly allow for the sick camera-friendly drifts I was hoping for

This is when I began to add a bit of throttle into the mix

With well-balanced throttle inputs, the Daytona was happy to hang its rear-end out for as long as I could keep it together

I flubbed a few accidental 360s while on the skid pad, but the Daytona never really had issues

After starting the car back up, turning it around, and disengaging traction control, the car was happy to continue its skid pad duties

The Charger Daytona has a starting MSRP just shy of $40,000

That\'s about $5,000 more than the normal R/T Charger with the same engine, but with this package, you don\'t have to deal with staring at that monotonous rental car face every time you get out of the car

The Daytona comes with a trim-specific grille, the sportier lower bumper, more aggressive-looking wheels, unique decals, and a sport exhaust

It\'s like the R/T, but it just looks more special

If you\'re wondering why you should spend that extra $5,000, my thoughts are that the normal R/T is vanilla

The Daytona\'s physical changes from the lower trim push me over the edge into realizing I\'m no longer driving just some rental car

It\'s a Charger—an American-branded rear-wheel-drive sedan with a grouchy V-8 under the hood, and the Daytona package\'s appearance reflects that

The V-8 R/T\'s just don\'t

For more infomation >> The Dodge Charger Daytona Is a Skid Pad's Best Friend - Duration: 5:27.

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Why Saline is Not a Predictor of Cheek Implant Results, and Advantages of Long Lasting Cheek Fillers - Duration: 10:33.

Thank you for your question.

You submitted a question without a photo and you're asking in your question whether use

of saline is a good way to predict how a cheek implant will look.

And you stated that you understand that fillers are an alternative but you want to avoid bruising

and you're looking for something more permanent.

Well, I can certainly help you with this type of question.

We deal with this question pretty much every day in our practice.

A little bit of background, I'm a Board-certified cosmetic surgeon and Fellowship-trained oculofacial

plastic and reconstructive surgeon.

I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.

And I have, throughout my career, used different solutions to help augment the cheeks both

surgically and non-surgically, everything from cheek implants, fat grafting and injecting

fillers.

So I will share with you a little bit of perspective and perhaps help you take a longer view as

to what permanence is.

So to begin with and just talking about the facial implant solution, certainly cheek implants

work and they can be very effective in providing really good volume in the face and have a

nice outcome.

In terms of trying to use a tool for predictability, I think that saline has limited value and

I'll explain why and this is from, again, firsthand experience.

We would often try just putting a little bit of saline to try to create what the volume

can be but the problem is that the saline dissipates very quickly and it creates more

global filling.

It ends up filling the soft tissue as well as the area that we would place the cheek

implant.

So I would say that saline as a predictor is not 100% percent useless but it's not

really as useful for predictability as would be ideal.

I think that it's very important to understand that when we talk about a permanent implant

in the face, we're still having to accept that the face does change with time and that

change involves bone loss.

It involves loss of fat and loss of soft tissue and skin quality and thickness.

So you can certainly want something that's long-term but understand that there can be,

depending on facial anatomy, a change that can be not so great with time when it comes

to permanent facial implants.

Now again, I still strongly believe in the benefits but when I look at my patients these

days and again, having gone through the evolution of cheek implants, fat grafting and fillers

and as a surgeon, I have all the tools in front of me to be able to do these things,

I'm not limited.

As far as that concern about bruising and longevity, I think that you can at least maybe

investigate this concept called structural volumizing and I'll explain further.

Before there were long lasting fillers, we had a lot of limitations.

But once longer lasting fillers such as Juvederm Ultra Plus and Juvederm Voluma came along,

now we have a hyaluronic acid filler that can last considerably longer and it can last

in terms of more than 1 year up to 2 years.

Now that's still not permanent but think of it this way, when we do structural volumizing,

we're placing the filler at the bone level, literally going where the most contribution

to loss of volume is related to facial aging.

And what I find really wonderful about doing this is that I can place the filler at different

areas in a way that I can really customize and sculpt the appearance in way to create

a nice natural look and create the augmentation that I want.

In surgery, it's difficult to do that same thing.

In surgery, we're injecting local anesthetic into the tissue space and we're releasing

all of these connections and then placing the implants accordingly.

Yes, we can try to massage out the fluid and look at the projection of the implants and

the overall shape and try to maximize symmetry.

It's not completely out of the question but we are dealing with a certain amount of

swelling that we can't just always compensate for and you can shape implants so you can

certainly do that.

But now we have these fillers, I find myself routinely using these fillers considerably

more often than I would ever do cheek implants.

And a lot of people have objections to the concept of facial implants and so certainly,

they're not going to consider that anyway.

But if you're open to the idea, you may want to think about using structural volumizing.

And you mentioned that you are concerned about bruising.

When we do these procedures, the technique basically is 99.9% without bruising and it

really works out very well.

This is a unique approach and most physicians don't perform this procedure regardless

of specialty.

It's just a certain learned technique that has worked very effectively in our practice.

And so when I talk about solutions for a particular, let's say, age range of mid 30s to all the

way into the 60s, you actually have a lot of volumetric loss and opportunity to create

volume and do it in a way that's customizable, that is predictable, it's very safe and

extremely convenient.

So what I can do in literally minutes with filler that would take me more than an hour

or actually minutes per side, but in surgery, under anesthesia so you think about just the

total time and the healing process, it really is no comparison.

Now cheek implants do have a role but in my practice, it's basically become a role that

is relevant during patient's whom I'm going to do face lifting.

If someone needs facial volume and is not interested in fillers, well I can offer them

the placement of cheek implants at the time of face lifting to help them with that area

of concern.

But again, by in large, we've been able to help a lot more people with structural

volumizing because of all of the benefits that I described earlier.

So I think you get the best of both worlds by that technique.

You get the long-term benefit, not permanent, but long-term.

At the same time, you avoid the bruisability, you avoid surgery and you are able to get

a very nice outcome that you can have performed at a certain degree of convenience.

A lot of times people who have these types of procedures like cheek implants are still

going to do Botox® injection, are still going to do other fillers, are still going to do

other laser procedures.

So it's not like they're not visiting the doctor's office for other enhancement

type of procedures.

So it makes sense for someone like that to consider structural volumizing as an alternative

to cheek implants.

So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question.

For more infomation >> Why Saline is Not a Predictor of Cheek Implant Results, and Advantages of Long Lasting Cheek Fillers - Duration: 10:33.

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What is keeping us from closing the gender gap? - Duration: 3:06.

I faced many difficulties as a woman since my childhood

be it the political situation or the social and cultural hurdles.

I come from a Bedouin family and a conservative society.

It's not easy for women to leave their homes

and for a woman to work, that is crossing a red line.

They used to say I dream a lot and I can't make it a reality.

But now my aunts encourage their daughters to study

by asking them "Do you want to be like me or like Abeer?"

Things have changed and now they have a role model.