Blog

Rhinoplasty Surgery – What To Expect After Surgery

Rhinoplasty or nose reshaping is one of the most popular facial plastic surgery procedures. Because the nose occupies such a prominent place on the face, the desire to change one’s nose is a big decision. In addition to the uncertainty of how one will ultimately look after surgery, concerns about how one will appear Read More…

Plastic Surgery Videos

I stumbled across recently the website entitled About.Com and discovered that they had a lot of health-related videos (297 to be exact). These videos are short ( a few minutes) but are of excellent quality with outstanding 3-D animations. They specifically have 10 that are for plastic surgery on the following topics. Breast Augmentation Read More…

Liposuction – What To Expect Right After Surgery

Liposuction remains one of the most popular of all plastic surgery procedures. If you count all the different body areas from which fat is removed , liposuction is the #1 plastic surgery procedure performed in the United States. While liposuction continues to evolve with newer methods of fat emulsification (e.g., ultrasonic, laser), the basic Read More…

Buttock Implants vs. Fat Injections for Buttock Enlargement Surgery

Enlargement of the buttocks or buttock enhancement is a plastic surgery procedure that has become more commonly requested and performed in the past several years than ever before. Ten years ago, this was a procedure that was unheard of and rarely done. Due to cultural influences and a changing population mix, the shape and Read More…

Breast Augmentation – What To Expect Right After Surgery

Breast augmentation is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures performed in the United States and also one of the most euphoric cosmetic procedures due to the instantaneous results. In one hour of surgery, an immediate increase in breast size is achieved. Despite the successful nature of breast augmentation surgery and the immediate Read More…

Facelift Surgery – What To Expect Right After Surgery

Facelift surgery brings dramatic changes to the neck and jowl area and helps to completely reverse the effects of aging and gravity on this visible facial area. While the euphoria of the final result is what many patients understandably think about, there are some expected after surgery events that happen that can be disturbing Read More…

Thighplasty (Thigh Lifts) after Extreme Weight Loss

The thighs suffer loose and hanging skin after extreme weight loss and often look like ‘wax melting on a candle’. Thigh lifts or thighplasty is the plastic surgery procedure that can address some of these issues. Thigh liftsconsist of a variety of procedures that differ based on the location and extent of the procedure. There Read More…

When To Replace Your Breast Implants

Breast augmentation is an operation that works exclusively because of the implant. Like joint replacement surgery, the operation is completely dependent on a medical device for its result. Like all medical devices, breast implants will eventually fail for some patients at some point in their lives. Because of this concern, I not infrequently hear Read More…

Nutritional Issues in Bariatric Plastic Surgery Patients

Body contouring plastic surgery after extreme amounts of weight loss must take into consideration the nutritional condition of the patient. Unlike traditional cosmetic surgery where one can assume that the patient can heal satisfactorily, such an assumption can not be safely made in patients who have lost a lot of weight. This is particularly Read More…

Pubic Lifts (Monsplasty) in Extreme Weight Loss Women

One area of sagging skin in the abdominal region that is not frequently addressed is in the pubic or mons area. Although a tummy tuck or body lift removes a lot of loose abdominal skin, it can still leave excess pubic skin behind resulting in a mons sag. This is often disturbing for patients as Read More…