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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…

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…