Category: injectable fillers | product reviews

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Sculptra Injectable Facial Filler

Sculptra is one of the numerous injectable facial fillers that has an established history of treating the condition known as facial lipoatrophy, most commonly seen in patients with HIV disease as a result of their antiviral therapy. By working as a facial volume restoration method rather than as a wrinkle or lip filler, Sculptra’s mechanism Read More…

Weight Loss Medications after Liposuction Surgery

Liposuction is ideally used to reduce spot areas of fat excess in the trunk and neck. In a perfect world, it is done exclusively in patients that have maximized their weight loss through diet and exercise and are at or near their ideal body weight. In reality, not all liposuction patients fit these preoperative Read More…

The Lateral (Temporal) Browlift for the Aging Forehead

One of the many features of facial aging is changes in the upper face or forehead. As the forehead undergoes aging, horizontal wrinkles appear and the eyebrows descend lower. A lower position of the brows is medically known as brow ptosis. Brow ptosis and excess upper eyelid skin, if severe enough, may even impede Read More…

Military Discounts for Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

Over the past few years, I have noticed a fair number of internet inquiries about the desire for cosmetic surgery from members of the armed services. I get at least once a week such an inquiry from someone stationed either locally or anywhere around the world, most commonly Iraq and Afghanistian. I suspect this Read More…

Implant Options for Temporal Augmentation

Temporal hollowing, also known as narrow or indented temples, gives the face (head actually) an unnatural hourglass shape. Rather than a convex transition from the side of the head into the upper cheek area, temporal hollowing shows a concave or sunken contour. Temporal hollowing occurs due to a variety of reasons. Most commonly, it Read More…

Vertical Reduction of the Long Chin

The chin is the predominant feature of the lower face. Whether it is too short or too long affects the overall look of one’s face. While short chin deformities make up the vast majority of corrections, long chin problems also exist. The overly prominent chin can exist in two dimensions, too far forward (horizontal excess) Read More…

Smartlipo (Laser Liposuction): It’s All About The Heat

The most simplistic understanding of Smartlipo (laser liposuction) is that it induces thermal lipolysis. This accomplished by the direct destruction of fat cells through heat energy delivered by a fine laser probe. A secondary effect of the use of laser energy is that there is a build-up of heat throughout the treatment zone which Read More…

Advanta (ePTFE) Implants for Lip Augmentation

Fuller lips continue to be a desired cosmetic enhancement. Most commonly, the upper lip is augmented in an effort to increase its naturally smaller proportion to that of the lower lip. Injectable fillers continue to be the most common method of lip augmentation due to immediate result and lack of recovery. Lip augmentation with injectable Read More…

Masseteric Muscle (Square Face) Reduction with Botox Injections

Botox or botulinum toxin A has a lot uses that go beyond facial wrinkle reduction. Some of these are well known and FDA-approved and others are not. One of the newer uses in plastic surgery has been in the nonsurgical management of masseter hypertrophy. While well known in the Eastern world, it is not Read More…

Fat Injections for Reconstructed Breast Contour Deformities

Fat injections continue to grow in popularity for numerous applications. While the procedure has good acceptance in the face, its use in the breast for correction of contour deformities is still in its infancy. Its use in breast reconstruction provides another potential tool for breast shaping due to its ease of use, lack of Read More…