Category: plastic surgery history

Plastic Surgery in the Trenches

While plastic surgery today is associated with images of rejuvenated faces and enhanced breasts and buttocks, its origins and history is associated with a bit more nobler objective. From the trenches of World War I came the need to reconstruct faces torn and shattered from warfare wounds. It was the absolute horrors of war that Read More…

Five Things You Did Not Know About Brow Bone Reduction

Brow bone reduction is often aesthetically necessitated when the frontal sinus air cavities become too large. This is almost exclusively a male problem since the development of the frontal sinuses is highly related to levels of circulating testosterone and growth hormone during development. As a result, it is often associated with other strong facial bone Read More…

Combining Liposuction and Arm Lifts – The Brachiolipoplasty Procedure

Arm lift or brachioplasty surgery had become very popular in the past decade, largely due to the preponderence of bariatric and weight loss surgery. While many women would like to have smaller and more shapely arms, liposuction remains the only surgical technique of arm reshaping in most non-weight loss patients due to the scar from Read More…

The Value of Computer Imaging in Plastic Surgery

While the contemplation of having plastic surgery and receiving physical enhancements can be exciting, it can also be intimidating as well. While there are many aspects of undergoing surgery that can potentially go awry, one of the most basic is in the front end of the process…the initial consultation and presurgical planning. How does one Read More…

Liposuction and Fat Cell Biology – Are The Results Maintained? Part 2

Fat cells are well known to release a large of cytokines (adipokines) that help regulate energy homeostasis and overall body fat mass. (leptin, tumor necrosis factor and many others) Leptin, for example, is a hormone produced by fat cells to help regulate body energy balance. Higher levels of leptin release favors energy burning rather than Read More…

Liposuction and Fat Cell Biology – Are The Results Maintained? Part 1

Much of body contouring surgery employs well known methods of liposuction whose effectiveness is based on the removal of fat cells and their lipid contents. While lipoaspiration is highly successful in the short-term, as evidenced by endless before and after pictures from plastic surgeons, patients understandably want to know what is it’s long-term effects. In Read More…

Infection Complications from Overseas Plastic Surgery

Medical tourism, specifically getting plastic surgery outside of the U.S., continues to gain in popularity. Lower costs are the obvious reason and many procedures may be as much as 50% less than in the States, often more. While there is no doubt that quality plastic surgery is available abroad and, in some cases it may Read More…

The Corner of the Mouth Lift For the Sad or Aging Mouth Correction

When it comes to treating the aging face, most everyone immediately thinks about a facelift. While a facelift can be a variable concept depending upon how it is done, many patients assume that it is an effective cure for all parts of the face including the mouth. The reality is that lifting the downturned corners Read More…

The Illegal Practice of Black Market Buttock Injections

On the surface, no one would say to themselves…please inject my body with some foreign substance (of which I don’t know what it is or even care) in an unsterile/unclean hotel room or in a house or aprtment by someone who has no medical training at all. That does not sound like a good idea Read More…

The Emergence of Facial Feminization Surgery

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) in the transgender patient has come a long way in the past two decades. As societal and political changes have occurred, greater patient acceptance and awareness of the need for such external physical changes has become mainstream procedures for those plastic surgeons experienced in doing them. With roughly a 1/4% to Read More…