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Mirrors in Plastic Surgery

  How one sees themselves is a very important element, perhaps the most important, in aesthetic plastic surgery. What motivates a patient to come in for surgery and how they judge their surgical endeavors afterwards is what they see in the mirror. We assume that mirrors are accurate reflections of ourselves and there would be Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Plastic Surgery in Afghanistan

Plastic surgery is done in almost every country in the world, regardless of their political and economic climates. One would think that such plastic surgery may be just reconstructive procedures in some of the more ‘extreme’ conditions of some countries, but cosmetic procedures exist just as well. Perhaps not as extensively performed as in the Read More…

Complete Decompression of the Supraorbital Nerve in Frontal Migraine Surgery

The treatment of frontal-based migraines by supraorbital and supratrochlear nerve decompression (stripping the muscle away from the nerves) has made a significant contribution to improved results for well qualified patients. (positive Botox responders)While it does not always cure every patient, numerous studies support that migraine headache frequency and severity are decreased in the majority of Read More…

Case Study: Male Lip Implant Augmentation

  Background: Lip augmentation is a popular procedure that is most commonly done with the use of injectable fillers. Any of the family of hyaluronic-acid based fillers offers an immediate improvement in which the material can be placed in a variety of lip locations to create both increased size and/or enhancement of various lip features. Read More…

Swelling and Bruising after Liposuction

  Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure that is both common and effective, characteristics that many cosmetic operations share. But one unique feature of liposuction is the degree of tissue trauma that it creates. Despite the many glitzy advertisements for the procedure and countless impressive before and after photographs available on the internet, fat removal by Read More…

The Need For Facelift Touch-Ups

  The facelift is one of the most recognized surgeries for facial aging. Patients ranging from their forties until the late eighties receive substantial benefits from a variety of facelift techniques. Cleaning up loose skin and fat from the neck and jowls and re-creating a youthful jawline is the objective of any facelift procedure and Read More…

The Moustache Hair Tranplant

  Hair transplantation has a long history of use with many recent advancements. The old style hair transplant of a plug has long given way to single follicular transplants which look more natural and have better survival rates. Rather than strip grafts, harvest techniques include follicular extraction methods. These advancements have allowed hair transplants to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Male Beauty Trend

While women make up the vast majority of plastic surgery and skin care patients and always will, the number of men having procedures and using advanced forms of skin care is increasing. While just a few percent of the total beauty pie decades ago, it is now around 10% of almost 9 million procedures performed.. Read More…

Avoiding Complications from Buttock Implants

Buttock enhancement is one of the most popular cosmetic body procedures and the fastest growing operation due to its relative newness.  The most common method of buttock augmentation today is fat injections but the most predictable is that of inserting an actual implant. Implants do not resorb and provide a permanent result but they take Read More…

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