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Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Liposuction and Triglyceride Levels

Apparently liposuction does more than get rid of those unsightly bulges, it may be good for your health as well. Studies have now shown that those people with elevated triglyceride levels (greater than 150mg/dl) prior to liposuction with or without a tummy tuck showed a significant drop (43%) after surgery. Those patients with normal triglyceride Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Eyebrow Hair Transplants

The creation of a fuller and more hair dense eyebrow is done by single follicular transplants from the scalp. The grafts are usually harvested from the scalp hair above the ear. The single grafts are placed in a flush radiating pattern along the thin or deficient eyebrow from the inner aspect near the nose to Read More…

Tummy Tucks and Weight Loss

Tummy tuck surgery can produce some extremely dramatic changes in a patient’s waistline and frontal abdominal contour. But one question that prospective patients often ask is how permanent is a tummy tuck? Will I go through this big operation with the associated recovery and cost only to have the same problem years later? Another common Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Braline Backlifts

Braline backlifts eliminate back rolls that at or below the braline. The back roll is cut out, including skin and fat, and replaced with a horizontal scar that is designed to lay along or within the braline. This creates a flattening of the back for the trade-off of a scar. The following are the typical Read More…

Understanding The Array of Liposuction Technologies

Liposuction is one of the most commonly performed body contouring procedures done around the world. It is unique from all other plastic surgery procedures in that there are no significant incisions and putting tissues back together by suturing is a trivial part of the operation and has no impact on the final result. It is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Exparel Local Anesthetic

The use of local anesthetics is commonly done in numerous plastic surgery procedures for both immediate and prolonged pain relief. One such operation would be a tummy tuck where the rectus muscles are sutured together. This is the most common source of significant pain after the procedure. Indwelling pain pumps or the injection of Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? U.S. World Leader in Plastic Surgery

The United States leads the world in many categories so it is no surprise that the greatest number of cosmetic plastic surgeries are performed here as well. (recent estimates have it as over 20% of the world’s total) With the number of board-certified plastic surgeons exceeding 6,000, the number of procedures performed by them follow Read More…

Case Study: Implant Augmentation of the Deflated Post-Pregnancy Breast

Background: The breasts are well known to be changing structures throughout a women’s lifetime. While gravity does have its own effect over time, the impact of pregnancies is usually more significant. While the increase in size is a well known effect of pregnancy on the breast, less appreciated is the actual loss of breast tissue Read More…