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Faster Recovery and Healing After Plastic Surgery

Healing after many plastic surgery procedures is uneventful and expected. However, certain types of patients and plastic surgery procedures result in outcomes that have wound healing problems. While not all wound healing complications can be prevented, some can be averted or lessened in their severity by preoperative preparation I like to think of major Read More…

Dosing Recommendations for Botox Facial Injections

The elimination or softening of unwanted facial expressions has been made possible by drug-induced chemodenervation, otherwise known as Botox injections. Botox continues to increase in popularity because it is highly effective at achieving facial expression manipulation through a simple set of injections without any visible signs of having it done or recovery. Botox is Read More…

Fat Injection Enhancement of the Aging Face

As the face matures ages over time, some people will develop fat loss which can make the face appear somewhat hollow and sunken. While this may have been a good look when one was young, in the older face such fat loss makes it appear much older and even a bit ill-appearing. A good Read More…

Oral Nutritional Supplementation in Bariatric Plastic Surgery

The treatment of obesity with bariatric surgery is a commonly done and highly effective procedure for generating large amounts of weight loss. (> 100 pounds) This has led to a large population of such weight loss patients seeking body contouring surgery to deal with their hanging skin issues. Many of the body contouring surgery Read More…

Assessment of Patient Satisfaction With Botox Facial Injections

Botox is the world’s most popular minimally invasive facial treatment for cosmetic purposes. Temporarily decreasing or eliminating certain forehead and eye wrinkles that result from reflex facial expressions has proven to be highly desired throughout much of the civilized world. I have always said that Botox is so popular because it simply works well Read More…

Avoiding An Unnatural Cheek Implant Result

Cheek implants are a fairly simple and effective method of enhancing this important aesthetic part of the face. By placing implants through an incision on the underside of the upper lip, the cheek area can be enhanced in various three dimensional ways with different types of implant designs. While once used exclusively for people Read More…

Hump Reduction in Rhinoplasty

A bump or hump on the nose is one of the most common reasons one seeks a rhinoplasty procedure. Reducing a hump and having a smoother bridge of the nose makes it appear more pleasing. Even if many other features of the nose are being changed , one of the signs of a successful Read More…

The Suture Suspension Facelift (Threadlift) – Does It Work?

The appeal of using specialized sutures to resuspend sagging facial tissues in a minimally-invasive operation is enormous. Doing a little facial tightening or tuck-up as an office procedure with little downtime has its obvious advantages. As a result, numerous types of barbed sutures have become available over the past five years and many such procedures Read More…

The Elbow Lift – An Extension of the Upper Arm Lift

The elbow lift, or removing excess skin from around the elbow (middle) area of the arm, is an uncommon procedure in body contouring surgery. Most of the time an upper arm lift ( between the elbow and the armpit) is enough to take care of one’s arm concerns. But the extreme weight loss patient can Read More…

Common Myths About Breast Reduction

Breast reduction is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures in the United States. Reduction of large breasts provides immediate and long-term improvement in back, shoulder, and neck pains that come from a woman having to carry around excessive breast weight. Despite the common performance of the breast reduction operation, there are numerous Read More…