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The Need For Facelift Touch-Ups

The facelift is one of the most recognized surgeries for facial aging. Patients ranging from their forties until the late eighties receive substantial benefits from a variety of facelift techniques. Cleaning up loose skin and fat from the neck and jowls and re-creating a youthful jawline is the objective of any facelift procedure and Read More…

The Moustache Hair Tranplant

Hair transplantation has a long history of use with many recent advancements. The old style hair transplant of a plug has long given way to single follicular transplants which look more natural and have better survival rates. Rather than strip grafts, harvest techniques include follicular extraction methods. These advancements have allowed hair transplants to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Male Beauty Trend

While women make up the vast majority of plastic surgery and skin care patients and always will, the number of men having procedures and using advanced forms of skin care is increasing. While just a few percent of the total beauty pie decades ago, it is now around 10% of almost 9 million procedures performed.. Read More…

Avoiding Complications from Buttock Implants

Buttock enhancement is one of the most popular cosmetic body procedures and the fastest growing operation due to its relative newness. The most common method of buttock augmentation today is fat injections but the most predictable is that of inserting an actual implant. Implants do not resorb and provide a permanent result but they take Read More…

Case Study: Extreme Chin Augmentation with Combined Osteotomy and Implant

Background: Chin augmentation is a very common plastic surgery procedure that helps bring into balance the lower face with more projecting upper facial features. It is by far most commonly done with synthetic implants that provide varying amounts of increased horizontal projection as well as some width changes. Less frequently, sliding genioplasties (chin osteotomies) Read More…

Necklifts for the Younger Patient

While the face in theory ages evenly, one’s concerns about different facial changes is not. Besides the eyes, the neck is a frequent target of aging dissatisfaction. While the neck is composed of various tissues, one wants see is loose and hanging skin. This makes one yearn for the days when the skin between Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom – Uncommon Plastic Surgery Procedures

Plastic surgery is the one surgical specialty that is recognized to be the most innovative and creative. Much of that has to do with the many procedures that are performed over the entire body. The history of creativity in plastic surgery is a long one which has its origins in the demands of reconstructive surgery Read More…

Is Liposuction Dangerous? Assessment of Safety Factors

Liposuction is certainly one of the most commonly performed aesthetic plastic surgery procedures. And by definition it treats the largest body surface areas of any cosmetic operation. Since its introduction in the U.S. over 40 years ago, it has risen to prominence because it not only treats refractory fat issues, which are ubiquitous, but Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Expression Injectable Filler

Injectable fillers for aesthetic facial use continues to expand in popularity as well as in the number of available products to do it. The most commonly used injectable fillers with the lowest rate of any adverse effects are hyaluron or hyaluronic-acid based. More than two-thirds of available injectable fillers used around the world are Read More…

Contemporary Implant Concepts For Surgical Jawline Enhancement

‘All societies in history were and are preoccupied with facial beauty’ ‘ Facial balance and symmetry are the key features to attractiveness’ ‘All people regardless of race, class or age share a similar sense of what is attractive’ ‘Square jawed males are viewed as more masculine, gain higher ranks in the military and have Read More…