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The Uniqueness of Male Plastic Surgery – Body Procedures

  When it comes to plastic surgery, just like many other areas in life, men are different than women. Not only are their faces and bodies not the same, but their attitudes and expectations about plastic surgery are also different. Having treated a fair number of men over the years in my Indianapolis plastic surgery Read More…

Treatment Options for Vertical Upper Lip Lines

  The face develops many visible signs of aging. But none are more problematic or pesky than that of upper lip lines or vertical rhytids. Such lip lines are very bothersome to women as they not only suggest an older lip but also cause problems with lipstick, often bleeding into the lower end of the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Humor – Being Plastic

  Because plastic surgery has the word ‘plastic’ in it, many have historically assumed that much of this surgical endeavor involves putting in plastic materials to achieve its effects. Besides the material, many overdone cosmetic procedures such as very tight-looking facelifts or having abnormally enlarged breasts have become associated with looking ‘plastic’. Thus the name Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Sunscreens and Skin Aging

Everyone by now knows the value of using sunscreens in lowering the risk of getting skin cancer. By decreasing the amount and duration of ultraviolet light skin exposure, the skin cells have more time to repair themselves and less chance of permanently damaging the natural healing mechanisms of the cell’s structure. In addition, it has Read More…

PMMA as an Aesthetic Cranioplasty Material

The use of skull reshaping with cranioplasty techniques that use synthetic materials dates back for over five decades. While the use of bone grafts is never an option in aesthetic skull procedures, it often is not an option in skull reconstruction either due to the size of the skull defect. This makes the use of Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Muscles of Facial Aging

A facelift, despite being a well known procedure, is frequently misunderstood. The most common misconception is of the actual facial area that is treated. Rather than the whole face, it treats only the lower third of the face, the neck and jowl areas. But the second misconception is what lies under the skin or, more Read More…

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…

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