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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…

Liposuction of the Knees – Helping to Reshape the Legs

While liposuction can be performed on almost any body area below the neck, little mention is ever made of fat removal from the knee. Yet, in my practice, I regularly perform knee liposuction particularly when the inner thighs are being treated. Most female patients can benefit from knee liposuction if it is done judiciously Read More…

Facelift Options for Men

Men pose uniquely different challenges than women when it comes to the consideration of facelift surgery. Men age just like women but usually are only concerned with their neck when becomes more of a waddle. As a result, they often are seen in plastic surgery consultation with more advanced facial aging concerns than what Read More…

Treatment Approaches for Double Chin Correction

Whether you are young or old, some people end up with that annoying double chin even if they are not overweight. And while there are some ways to camouflage it, like wearing a turtleneck, that often is not practical or desired. Many times, that double chin or extra ‘neck’ is not seen or fully Read More…

Fat Injections to the Face – A Concept Which Continues To Intrique

Despite the many off-the-shelf injectable fillers which currently exist, none of them can promise permanent results or complete biocompatibility and lack of any type of foreign-body reaction in everyone. Only one’s own fat, when done as an injection, can potentially fulfill those promises. But fat has another problem…..its survival after injection is unpredictable and Read More…

Injectable Fillers for Nasolabial Folds

One of the most common facial areas that bothers many patients is the development of the nasolabial folds, also referred to as the lip-cheek groove, or in a recent television commercial known as the parentheses. You can argue whether it is a fold or a groove but it is probably closer to a fold. It Read More…

Lip Augmentation with Injectable Fillers

The most common method for lip augmentation is with injectable fillers. While other more surgical options exist such as lifts and implants, making the lip bigger by injections are quick, easy to do, and have instantaneous results. (notice that I did not say painless!) While five years ago, only two injectable filler options existed Read More…

The Facelift as a Stand Alone Procedure

The concept of a facelift for many patients, initially, seems extreme. Prospective patients often have a vision of being swollen and bruised for weeks over their entire face. Such thoughts have driven some patients to other less or minimally-invasive procedures which are often inappropriate for their facial aging problem. They may have been less Read More…

Earlobe Reduction – Reshaping Big Earlobes

The earlobe rarely gathers attention unless it is somehow deformed. Split, pierced, too small, or too big are all problems that an earlobe can have. A large earlobe is very noticeable and we all have seen someone with too large an appendage hanging from the side of their head.. Often it occurs in someone Read More…

The Benefits of Upper Blepharoplasty (Eyelid Lifts)

While the anatomy of the upper and lower eyelids is nearly identical, and the aging process which they undergo obviously similar, freshening up the eyelids is different whether you are north or south. Compared to the lower eyelid, the upper eyelid offers a ‘simpler’ procedure that, quite frankly, has fewer risks or complications In Read More…