Michael Jackson’s treatment was never successful due to risks.

In 1988 I was part of the World Congress of Plastic Surgery in Fort Lauderdale, USA, where one of the main speakers was the dermatologist who started Michael Jackson’s skin tone change (depigmentation) in hands and face. He commented he was successfully using a formula based on acid and chemicals that took off the pigments of the skin, but also attacked its superficial layers, because the procedure consists on removing the first five protective layers of the skin. This provoked burns and open wounds on Jackson’s hands (that is why he started wearing gloves, to hide them). He also had to recur to therapy in hyperbaric chambers in order to increase the supply of oxygen to the burnt areas and to improve the healing process. These chemicals also lowered his defenses, because they cause damage similar to chemotherapy. That is why before Swine Influenza, Michael Jackson was the first person to wear protective masks to cover his mouth and nose to avoid viral contagion. For this last reason, the treatment never prospered, never had followers. Only Michael, knowing the consequences from the beginning, accepted something like that. It was an informed consent.
With weakened defenses, the King of Pop constantly underwent multiple surgeries: nose, cheekbones, chin, endoscopic frontal traction (to rise the tail of the brows and enlarge the eyes) blepharoplasty, etc; damaging his health even more. These surgeries would not have caused any damage to his body if he had not depigmented it. In any case, each of his surgeries was a challenge for plastic surgeons and doctors of other specialties. For example, in the reconstruction of his nose, they used cartilages from his ears and from the cartilage bank; specialists in aesthetic, reconstructive and functional surgery were needed.
I would have suggested only one nose surgery to the King of Pop: to change the aspect of the tip of his nose, of the wide wings of the nose and the flattened septum. Also, semi-solid silicone implants in cheekbones and chin that would have given him a very natural split chin. He would have looked good, because they would match the rest of his features. (Written by: Cesar Morillas MD)

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