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The Stealth Approach To Plastic Surgery

The popularity of plastic surgery is evident by the near 14 million procedures done in 2011. The vast majority of these improvements did not involve invasive surgery but still accounted for well over a million procedures. Together these numbers mean that roughly 4.5% of the American population had some cosmetic improvement done last year. Read More…

Case Study: Rib Grafting for the Saddle Nose Deformity

Background: The dorsal line of the nose, often referred to as the bridge, looks best in most people when it is straight from the top of the nose down to the tip. Disruptions of a straight dorsal line is one of the most common reasons people seek rhinoplasty, usually because a hump exists creating Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Microcannulas for Injectable Fillers

The popularity of injectable fillers is undeniable. Adding instant volume to small lips, deepened nasolabial folds or deflated cheeks is truly a marvel of contemporary aesthetic treatments. But besides cost, the number one reason more people don’t take advantage of these facial volumizers is because it hurts to get it done. Like dentistry, the Read More…

Case Study: Hispanic Mommy Makeover

Background: The bodies of all women are affected by the tissue stresses that pregnancy causes. While some women have good skin elasticity and their bodies bounce right back into shape afterwards, this is more uncommon than common. Loss of breast volume and stretched out skin causes loss of a once perky breast shape to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? King Tut and Gynecomastia

The most well known or at least the most publicized ancient pharaohs of Egypt, King Tut, ruled and died early. The demise of the young pharoah has always been a mystery and much speculation has centered around his cause of death from murder to accidents. But a recent theory based on medical evidence suggests Read More…

A New Innovative Saline Breast Implant

Breast augmentation is largely defined by the implant that is used to create it. At one time in the history of this surgery, from 1991 to 2006, the saline breast implant was the only commercial implant available. Essentially being water in a bag, it has advantages of being able to be inserted through small Read More…

Chest Enhancement in Men with Pectoral Implants

Changing the chest of women is a very commonly done plastic surgery procedure, with nearly 350,000 women having the procedure last year in the U.S. Adding up all the women who have had breast augmentation over the past 20 years, it is estimated that about 1 in 7 women between the ages of 21 Read More…

Case Study: The High Radix Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty involves potential manipulation of all components of the nose. One of the most common areas of change is of the hump or bump on the nose. While frequently though of as just, the nasal hump is actually a combination of bone and cartilage and the highest peak of the hump often represents Read More…

Twin Study on Breast Attractiveness and Aging

Women spend an inordinate amount of attention to the prevention of aging on their face and hands, but what about their breasts? Conversely a lot of cosmetic enhancements are done to breasts to repair or rejuvenate the effects of time and aging on them. But are there things women can do to keep their Read More…

Injectable Fillers and the Theory of Persistence

The use of injectable filler materials, despite their relative recent popularity, have been around for a long time. From 1981 to 2002, the only FDA-approved filler was bovine and human-derived collagen. This seemed a perfectly natural filler material as that was ideally what one wanted to replace. But their short persistence and the need Read More…