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Case Study: Correction of Puffy Eyes in Women

Background: The eyes are very good indicators of how the face is aging being the first to show its signs. Aging first starts around the eyes and continues to progress as one gets older. The frequent movement of the eyelids and the thinness of the skin makes for an often early onset of wrinkles. Eventually Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Lower Eyelid Bags

Undereye bags are a well recognized facial entity. Everybody has seen lots of people who have them and eventually many people will see them on themselves as they age. For some few people they will have them even when they are quite young before they have any significant aging. Lower eyelid bags in the aging Read More…

Textured Anatomic (Teardrop-Shaped) Silicone Implants for Breast Augmentation

The concept of an anatiomically shaped breast implant is not new and dates back for over a decade. Simplistically, it is an implant where the retaining shell has a shape that allows more implant volume to be in the lower half than in the upper half. The inexact ratio is about 2/3s volume lower Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Cimeosil and Gelzone Scar Treatments

Scars come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes and can be caused from surgery or injury. But regardless of their origin, many patients are concerned about their appearance and want to participate in methods that can help them heal and disappear as much as possible. While there are no magical potions that can Read More…

The Concepts of Facial Asymmetry Surgery (FAS)

Facial attractiveness is highly influenced by the symmetry of its composite parts. It is well known and studied from the scientific analysis of beauty that the more two facial halfs (one half and its mirror image) are, the more attractive one is perceived to be. This is true whether it is of the male or Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom – The Plastic Surgeon’s ‘Product’

Plastic surgery in many aspects is a product that patients buy. This may not be exactly true in reconstructive surgery where a patients needs the service. But it is most certainly true in aesthetic surgery where the patient will suffer no physical harm if they do not have the surgery. Many patients do ask what Read More…

Abdominal Liposuction – Jelly Belly vs Watermelon Bellies

Liposuction is one of the most popular of all plastic surgery procedures both in numbers of patients done and in body surface areas treated. Of all potential body areas in which fat can be extracted, the abdomen or stomach is the most commonly requested. Even amongst those people who would never consider having any other Read More…

Computer-Designed Custom Facial Implants for Aesthetic Enhancement

Synthetic implants play a valuable role in the treatment of both aesthetic and reconstructive facial problems. While there are a large variety of preformed off-the-shelf facial implants which can be placed in their initial shape or modified during surgery, some patient’s bone and soft tissue volume deficiences are not ideally treated in this manner. While Read More…

Botox and its Effect on Smiling

The importance of a smile in human interaction can not be denied. It is a seemingly simple facial expression that actually involves a large number of facial muscles that must work with great precision to create what one recognizes as a genuine smile. There are 43 muscles in the face and the number that Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: CosmetAssure Cosmetic Surgery Insurance

The number of cosmetic procedures continues to increase every year. The latest statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) for 2012 show that over 14 million cosmetic procedures were performed. While less than one-third of them were major surgical procedures, every cosmetic procedure no matter how minor has some level of risk. While Read More…