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Breast Augmentation Surgery Turns into a Home-Based Business

Breast implant surgery is known to produce many things. Always it makes for a better chest contour and clothing options. And most importantly, it improves the self-image and confidence of the woman who is the recipient of them. But sometimes it creates outcomes that are unexpected and even life changing. Such an uplifting story, Read More…

Case Study: Dermal Grafts for Reduction of Glabellar Furrows

Background: Frown lines are a major concern for many people as they make them look like they are scowling and angry. The frown lines are one of the major undesired facial features that have accounted for the meteoric rise in Botox sales and for making it a household name. Unknown to most, frown lines Read More…

How Long Does A Facelift Last?

Facelift surgery remains the backbone of surgical facial rejuvenation as the neck and jowls are primary motivations for seeking out age-related improvement. As part of the consideration of a facelift, patients often ask how long it will last. With understandable concerns about cost effectiveness and the trepidation about another future surgery, the longevity question Read More…

Insurance Predetermination For Your Plastic Surgery Procedure

There are numerous reconstructive procedures that may be covered under your medical insurance program. But plastic surgery is unique amongst medical practitioners in that the insurance companies largely take the position that…anything that involves plastic surgery is unnecessary and cosmetic in nature. While this may not be what their policies say and certainly isn’t Read More…

Suture Reactions and Granulomas in Plastic Surgery

While suturing traumatic wounds and surgical incisions closed is a routinue part of every surgical specialty, doing so in plastic surgery is a near art form. One of the factors that differentiates plastic surgery technique is how the skin level is closed. Most commonly it is done using two different types of sutures, individual buried Read More…

Dimpleplasty – A Cheeky Plastic Surgery Procedure

The cheek is a facial area where many different procedures are available for enhancement. From cheek implants, to cheek lifts, to buccal fat removal, plastic surgery changes to the cheek are numerous. All of these procedures are about altering its volume or shape. But there is one topographic change to the cheek skin that Read More…

Realistic Expectations in Nasolabial Fold Injection Filler Results

Injectable fillers, like Botox, have revolutionized the approaches used for non-surgical facial rejuvenation. While Botox is a paralyzing agent for decreasing expressions, fillers are for adding lost volume or volume that one never had. While each has its own specific facial uses, they are often used in combination for a more significant facial effect. Injectable Read More…

Smartlipo of the Neck and Chin Augmentation – An Early Facial Rejuvenation Approach

The chin and neck angle relationship is one of the most significant facial markers that has a significant influence on the age of one’s appearance. A well defined chin point and a contoured neck angle are what most of us had in the first three to four decades of life. Aging changes the neck Read More…

The Long Forehead – Combining Scalp Advancement and Browlifting

Browlifting is often a frequent component of eyelid rejuvenation. The tired look around one’s upper eyelids may be magnified by a low and falling eyebrow position. The combination of a browlift can make an upper blepharoplasty result look eve better and, at the least, reduce the amount of upper eyelid skin that needs to be Read More…

The Aesthetics of Jaw Angle Implant Surgery

A strong and well-defined jaw angle confers a certain degree of masculinity. Some men have it naturally, while others seek to obtain it from synthetic implants. The jaw angle makes up a portion of the mandibular ramus and its outline is formed by the intersection of its outer posterior and inferior borders. This bony Read More…