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The Difference between Men and Women with Botox Injections

Botox exerts its effects through a muscle weakening or paralyzing effect. Like all drugs, its effectiveness is going to be dose-dependent. How much Botox® is injected will determine how much weakening of the muscle will occur and to what degree of improvement is seen in the undesired facial expression. The higher the dose given, the Read More…

Improving the Safety of Botox

Botox, the world’s #1 cosmetic facial treatment, comes in a bottle in a powder form. If you look at a bottle on its arrival and hold it up to the light, you would swear there was nothing in it. The amount of powder is so small, and the toxin that it carries so powerful, that Read More…

Pain and Rapid Recovery after Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is a highly successful operation that was performed about 330,000 times in 2007 in the United States. While many wome desire breast enlargement, they may be fearful of the amount of pain after surgery and that they may have a long recovery until they can get back to their normal activities. Breast Read More…

Saline Breast Augmentation: A Potentially Deflating Experience

Breast augmentation continues to be one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures because….the results are immediate and very gratifying for nearly every single woman that undergoes the procedure. Breast augmentation can be done with either saline or silicone implants, both of which work well and create identical results in the end. But there Read More…

Silicone Breast Implants: Fast Forward 20 Years

Now that silicone gel breast implants have been officially back and FDA-approved since 2006, most breast augmentation patients are opting for it. While it is more costly than saline breast implants, silicone breast implants offer a more natural feel, have very little to no implant rippling, and will not deflate in size if they Read More…

Your Breasts and Your Breast Augmentation Result

Breast augmentation surgery will always make a dramatic difference in the size of your breasts but the final shape may be a different matter. It is common for me to see patients who bring in pictures of what they want their breasts to look like, taken from magazines and internet sites. And while these Read More…

The Influence of Breast Implant Shape in Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is an operation that achieves its goal principally through the use of an implant. Whether it is a saline or silicone breast implant, both achieve enlargement of the breast in a near instantenous manner. Traditionally, breast implants have been of a uniform round (oblong really) shape. When this breast implant shape is Read More…

Rippling of Saline Breast Implants

Saline-filled breast implants typically have some amount of rippling or wrinkling which is not usually seen with silicone gel breast implants. (although it can still occur) This is particularly evident in women with thin skin and very little breast tissue. Implant wrinkling is felt on the bottom and sides of the breasts and Read More…

Help For Dark Circles Under The Eyes

The development of dark circles under one’s eyes makes you look tired. Some people develop dark circles with aging, while others have had them from when they were young. Dark circles occur just as frequently in Caucasians as they do in more darkly pigmented people. Dark circles, contrary to popular thought, is not due Read More…

The Endoscopic Browlift – How It Works and Who Is a Good Candidate for it

By the mid- to late 1990s, the impact of the less-invasive laparoscopic approaches to general surgery (particularly that of gall bladder removal) had reached plastic surgery. A wave of endoscopic (laparoscopic approaches infuse a lot of air to make the cavity, endoscopic just uses a camera without the extra air) approaches to a variety Read More…