Category: Did You Know | plastic surgery

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Board Certification Matters

Every prospective patient who seeks cosmetic enhancements knows to ask or look for ‘board certification’ of their surgeon or treatment provider. While this is a seemingly good question, a positive answer may still not be a reassuring one that guarantees your doctor has all the requisite training and experience to give you the best Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Missing Element in Jawline Enhancement

A strong jawline is a well known perceived desirable facial feature. While an obvious aesthetic asset in men, it is even so in women as long as the chin does not protrude too much. What what makes up a nice and well defined jawline? The jawline comes from the mandible or lower jaw which is Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Rhytiphobia and Botox

As we age the development of wrinkles on our faces is inevitable. The motion of the muscles of facial expression eventually cause permanent creases or wrinkles to develop in the skin. For some people wrinkles represent a positive reflecting signs of knowledge and experience. For others they are a sign of losing one’s youth Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Anatomy of the Protruding Ear

The ears on the side of the head are relatively inconspicuous unless they stick out too far. A good looking ear is one that goes unnoticed, only bad looking ears catch our attention. But despite the small size of the ear, it has a compact anatomy that is filled with ridges and valleys. By Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Breast Implant Serial Numbers

Right out of the files of ‘CSI Plastic Surgery’, a recent case out of China reported on the solving of a missing person’s case by their breast implants. A young murdered female was identified using an exposed silicone breast implant. Through the coding on the silicone breast implant, the police tracked the product back to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Fat Atrophy after Trauma

A common observation in blunt traumatic injuries of the face and body that have resulted in large bruises or hematomas (blood collections) is that soft tissue or contour depressions may appear many months later. This is confusing to patients as they do not know why it occurs since they did not have a laceration or Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Pectoralis Muscle Atrophy after Breast Augmentation

The most common location for placing the implants in breast augmentation is under the muscle. What this means is that a pocket is made between the thicker outer pectoralis major muscle and the thinner underlying pectoralis minor muscle. When it comes to nerves in breast augmentation the most common concern is about nipple sensation and Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Original Nosejob

The desire to change or make up a new nose has been around for a long time. The first recorded nose job is written in the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts around 600 BC. Doctor would reconstruct noses by taking a strip of skin from the forehead or cheeks, twisting the skin side over a Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know: The Need for Strong Male Jawlines

A strong jawline has been deemed as both a desireable and attractive male facial feature for millenia. A strong male jawline is not a passing fad or temporary fashion statement. It has been and always will be an important feature of a male face. Everyone knows that a strong jawline implies increased masculinity and increased Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Sunscreens and Skin Aging

Everyone by now knows the value of using sunscreens in lowering the risk of getting skin cancer. By decreasing the amount and duration of ultraviolet light skin exposure, the skin cells have more time to repair themselves and less chance of permanently damaging the natural healing mechanisms of the cell’s structure. In addition, it has Read More…