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Liposuction To Pass The Military Body Fat Percentage Test

Liposuction is a well known body contouring procedure that is widely used to remove excess areas of fat that is resistant to diet and exercise. There are many reasons that people undergo liposuction and the timing may be related to an upcoming event (wedding, vacation, reunion) or that they just have gotten frustrated with it Read More…

Case Study: Full Anchor Pattern Breast Lifts

Background: A change in a woman’s breasts is an assured phenomenon over her lifetime. Through pregnancies, weight gain/loss and gravity, breasts usually drop or sag with age. The amount of sag is often exaggerated by the concomitant loss of breast volume as well. While many women want larger breasts, just as many want or need Read More…

Patient Testimonials: Corner of Mouth Lift

Corner of Mouth Lift ‘Thank you very much for my corner of mouth lift. My mouth has changed now. I came home from United States last week and my friend saw me with my new mouth and she was amazed. She said to me that my mouth is marvelous and is much better now. She Read More…

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Eyelid Lift (Blepharoplasty) Surgery

Eyelid lifts or tucks are one of the most successful and commonly performed of all the anti-aging or facial rejuvenation procedures. While the number of eyelids outnumber any other facial structure, the number of eyelid surgeries performed is also due to the early onset of bothersome and visible aging which takes its earliest effect Read More…

Injectable Fillers vs Fat Transposition Blepharoplasty for the Tear Trough Deformity

The tear trough is a natural depression that runs from the inner aspect of the eye down along the infraobital rim, usually stopping at about a vertical line drawn down from the pupil of the eye. With aging, it becomes deeper and more visible and then becomes known as the tear trough deformity. Extending from Read More…

Scar Revision Strategies in Hypertrophic vs Keloid Scars

While scars have a negative connotation due to the imperfect appearance of the skin, they are a normal result of most injuries and surgeries. This is part of the wound healing process and their appearance (or perpetuation) is the expected result of this dynamic process. It is only deviations from normal wound healing, hypertrophic scars Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Missing Element in Jawline Enhancement

A strong jawline is a well known perceived desirable facial feature. While an obvious aesthetic asset in men, it is even so in women as long as the chin does not protrude too much. What what makes up a nice and well defined jawline? The jawline comes from the mandible or lower jaw which is Read More…

Five Misconceptions About Facelifts

The facelift procedure is one of the most recognizable operations in all of plastic surgery. Between the historic belief that all facelifts result in a ‘windblown’ or overdone look to the well advertised Lifestyle Lift of today, facelift surgery carries with it many perceptions and opinions…many of which are either blatantly wrong or misinformed. Read More…

Nasal Lengthening in the Asian Nose

Rhinoplasty in the Asian nose is well know to be an augmentation operation, raising the bridge of the nose and increasing tip projection. Together these changes fundamentally increase nasal length which is measured as the distance from the nasion to the tip-defining point. Besides nasal length, other measurements used to define the short nose including Read More…

Case Study: Lip Advancement for Lip Asymmetry

Background: The size and shape of the lips is controlled by many factors. But one of the most important is the pink part of the lip known as the vermilion. The size of the lips is largely controlled by the vermilion height of the vermilion. (lip line out to the skin edge or vermilion-cutaneous junction) Read More…