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Case Study: Hispanic Mommy Makeover

Background: The bodies of all women are affected by the tissue stresses that pregnancy causes. While some women have good skin elasticity and their bodies bounce right back into shape afterwards, this is more uncommon than common. Loss of breast volume and stretched out skin causes loss of a once perky breast shape to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? King Tut and Gynecomastia

The most well known or at least the most publicized ancient pharaohs of Egypt, King Tut, ruled and died early. The demise of the young pharoah has always been a mystery and much speculation has centered around his cause of death from murder to accidents. But a recent theory based on medical evidence suggests Read More…

A New Innovative Saline Breast Implant

Breast augmentation is largely defined by the implant that is used to create it. At one time in the history of this surgery, from 1991 to 2006, the saline breast implant was the only commercial implant available. Essentially being water in a bag, it has advantages of being able to be inserted through small Read More…

Chest Enhancement in Men with Pectoral Implants

Changing the chest of women is a very commonly done plastic surgery procedure, with nearly 350,000 women having the procedure last year in the U.S. Adding up all the women who have had breast augmentation over the past 20 years, it is estimated that about 1 in 7 women between the ages of 21 Read More…

Case Study: The High Radix Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty involves potential manipulation of all components of the nose. One of the most common areas of change is of the hump or bump on the nose. While frequently though of as just, the nasal hump is actually a combination of bone and cartilage and the highest peak of the hump often represents Read More…

Twin Study on Breast Attractiveness and Aging

Women spend an inordinate amount of attention to the prevention of aging on their face and hands, but what about their breasts? Conversely a lot of cosmetic enhancements are done to breasts to repair or rejuvenate the effects of time and aging on them. But are there things women can do to keep their Read More…

Injectable Fillers and the Theory of Persistence

The use of injectable filler materials, despite their relative recent popularity, have been around for a long time. From 1981 to 2002, the only FDA-approved filler was bovine and human-derived collagen. This seemed a perfectly natural filler material as that was ideally what one wanted to replace. But their short persistence and the need Read More…

Case Study: Breast Reduction in Older Women

Background: A large breast size is well known to put a strain on back, shoulder, and neck muscles. The constant pulling of the breast weight across the shoulders strains the entire upper body. This is magnified when the large breast also have a large amount of ptosis or sagging, as most large breasts do Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Barber Poles and Plastic Surgery

The history of the barber pole and its classic red and white stripes is well known. The original barber-surgeons of the Middle Ages and Renaissance provided a variety of medical services such as cutting hair, tooth extractions, minor surgery and blood letting. It is the practice of blood letting that epitomizes the classic spiral Read More…

Drug Levels and Blood Loss After Liposuction and Abdominoplasty

Liposuction remains one of the most common body contouring operations in cosmetic surgery. While often viewed as ‘simple’ with little recovery and promising dramatic results from the perspective of how it is often marketed and promoted, liposuction is a very invasive procedure that induces a lot of tissue trauma. The small size of the cannula Read More…