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The Mechanism and Effectiveness of Power-Assisted Liposuction

Liposuction is a plastic surgery technique that relies heavily on mechanical equipment as well as some fundamental physics for effective subcutaneous fat removal. For many years liposuction was done using blunt-tipped cannulas with various hole arrangements just off of its rounded end. Subsequent technological advancements have focused on delivering various energies to the fat tissue Read More…

Botox Approved for Crow’s Feet Wrinkles

It was announced today that the most well known cosmetic drug, Botox, has been approved by the FDA to treat the wrinkles that radiate out from the eye, known as crow’s feet. This may come as a surprise to many since millions of people have received Botox injections around the eyes for years. Why Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review – Refine Soft Tissue Suspension System

The ideal youthful breast has fullness in the upper pole, does not sag, and has a slightly pendulous lower pole. The slope of the upper pole should be slightly convex, straight, or slightly concave. With time, and gravity, many women lose that nice fullness in the upper pole, aging the breast and making it less Read More…

The Physics of Liposuction

Adipose tissue is loose connective tissue that is composed of fat cells, fibroblasts (as well as other cell types), small blood vessels, proteins and water. It serves many important bodily roles from the preservation of body heat, the protection of vital organs to an efficient means of energy storage. However, some people have too much Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Ultra-Projecting Nose

Background: The nose has a large number of aesthetic deformities of which the vast number of them either are tip-based or the tip is a part of the overall problem. When a person has complaints about a nose that is too big, that could mean a variety of issues. The nasal tip could be just Read More…

Case Study: Tummy Tuck for Waistline Reshaping and Weight Loss

Background: The tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) is one of the most popular of all the body contouring procedures. Whether helping to reverse the effects of pregnancy or that of weight loss, it achieves what no amount of diet and exercising can do…the removal of loose/stretched out abdominal skin. But it does so with the aesthetic trade-off Read More…

Use of the Brava Device in Fat Injection Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is one of the top cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed today. It has a relatively long history and its success is based on using either a saline or silicone gel breast implant to achieve its breast expansion effect. Like many medical devices, it is tremendously successful but not complication free. With breast implants Read More…

My Breast Augmentation Checklist

Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular body contouring procedures. Between the many choices of implant options, incision locations, implant placement and size considerations, there are many decisions that a women has to make before her breast implant surgery. Women will also have other questions that relate to their recovery and the long-term effects Read More…

Plastic Surgery Humor – Silicone in Plastic Surgery

The association of silicone materials and plastic surgery dates back almost fifty years when silicone oil injections were first used for breast enhancement and facial rejuvenation in the late 1960s. While silicone oil injections have been banned in the U.S. for a long time due to adverse tissue reactions, silicone gel remains as a Read More…

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Injections as a Hair Loss Treatment

The use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections epitomizes the statement ‘heal thine own self’. Using a patient’s blood, a platelet extract is obtained by centrifugation that can be spot injected to an area of need. Since platelets are well known to be storehouses of growth factors and cytokines, their administration into a variety of Read More…