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Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Fat Atrophy after Trauma

A common observation in blunt traumatic injuries of the face and body that have resulted in large bruises or hematomas (blood collections) is that soft tissue or contour depressions may appear many months later. This is confusing to patients as they do not know why it occurs since they did not have a laceration or Read More…

Blepharoplasty with Fat Injections

The most common procedure for rejuvenation of the periorbital area is surgical blepharoplasty. Removing skin from the upper and lower eyelids as well as fat mainly from the lower eyelid can make the eyes appear refreshed and more open. But tissue excess is not the exclusive problem that occurs around the eyes as they age. Read More…

The Need for Revisional Surgery in Combined Breast Lifts with Implants

  It has been a repeated mantra of mine that the ultimate cosmetic breast reshaping operation, a combined breast lift with implants, has a high rate of ‘complications’ or need for revision.  It is something that I repeatedly counsel women on before surgery. My stated rate of revisional surgery in augmentation mastopexy patients is potentially Read More…

The Anatomy of Temporal Implant Augmentation

Augmentation of the temporal region is a new area for synthetic facial implants. While every other facial implant designed is for bony augmentation, temporal implants provide enhancement of the soft tissue (muscle) region of the side of the forehead and eye.  While injectable filler and fat provide a less invasive approach, they do not offer Read More…

Preoperative Implant Sizing Reduces Breast Augmentation Revisions

One issue that women gloss over in the consideration and planning of their breast augmentation is the potential need for revisional surgery. There are many reasons a breast implant revision may need to be done including infection, bleeding, implant malposition, asymmetry, capsular contracture and unhappiness with the size selection. In reading breast implant package inserts, Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…

Herbal and Supplement Medication Guidelines in Plastic Surgery

  The use of dietary supplements is the norm today rather the exception. Between the use of vitamins and herbal supplements, it is estimated that nearly half of the U.S. population is partaking of these alternative or complementary oral aids. This does not take into account whatever pharmaceutical medications that they may also be ingesting. Read More…

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