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Case Study: Removal of A Large Chin Mole

Background:Moles are very common skin manifestations. These well known and recognized colorations are concentrated collections of pigment cells in the skin that have coalesced to create a visible growth. Almost everyone has at least one and most people have an assortment of them located randomly throughout their body. The face is a common location for Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The 5 Minute Injectable Facelift

The treatment of facial aging has a new twist. Rather than lifting and removing loose skin in a traditional facelift procedure, the concept of adding rather than subtracting has gained some notoriety. The ‘5 Minute Facelift’ employs injectable fillers to add substance to facial areas that have undergone structural changes due to volume loss. Areas Read More…

The Role of the Exilis Device In Fat Reduction and Skin Tightening

The desire for fat reduction is ubiquitous and a large number of methods exist from dieting to surgery to achieve it. While liposuction and bariatric surgery are all effective means of fat removal and weight reduction respectively, they are not equivalent and have very different outcomes. But they do share the similarity of being invasive Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Facelift Misconceptions

The facelift operation is one of the most misunderstood of all cosmetic plastic surgery procedures. While often perceived as including the entire face, this is not true. The traditional facelift treats only the lower third of the face, the neck and jowls. Through incisions around the ears, loose neck and jowl skin is moved up Read More…

The Emerging Popularity of the Mommy Makeover

The concept of a Mommy Makeover has become a very popular plastic surgery procedure in the past decade. While sounding like a novel procedure, it is really nothing more than combining traditional breast and abdominal reshaping procedures in a single one-time operation. When put together they change the two body parts most affected by pregnancy Read More…

Liposuction and the Fat Homeostasis Theory

One of the most common questions that patients ask these days in regards to liposuction is…will I gain weight elsewhere after this fat is removed? The basis of this question comes from one study published last year which showed some fat growth in the back and arms after abdominal liposuction in a small number of Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Anatomy of a Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty is well known as being one of the most difficult and challenging of all plastic surgery operations. The obvious reason is that the nose is the most prominent feature on just about anyone’s face and it is easily judged and critiqued. While this is certainly true, it is not the only reason that good Read More…

The Trade-Off Principle of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

What makes anyone want to have cosmetic surgery? Such motivation lies in the combination of physical concerns, whether from aging or from genetics, and the hope of a relatively quick improvement. Even if the physical improvement is not permanent, and many cosmetic surgery results are not, the desire for physical change and self-image improvement can Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Laser Hair Treatments

Your hair is not in your skin¦technically. The dead hair shaft which we see comes through the skin but the hair follicle or bulb, the live part of hair, sits below the deepest part of the skin. This bulb is what laser hair treatments target. Specific wavelengths of laser light are geared towards the dark Read More…

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