Category: Did You Know | plastic surgery

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Men and Plastic Surgery

While the majority of plastic surgery is still done on women, a slowly increasing number of men are joining the ranks. While some of the procedures are clearly different between men and women due to obvious variations in anatomy, it is also important to recognize that these differences extend between the ears also. Men and Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Contemporary Gynecomastia Reduction Surgery

Male breast enlargement or gynecomastia (Greek derivation, gyne = female and mastos = breast) is a common male chest condition. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, gynecomastia accounts for more than 65% of all male breast disorders. While occurring most commonly in teens, it can affect all men throughout their life due to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Lip Lifts

Lip augmentation is a very familiar and popular procedure. By injecting a variety of substances into the lips, they become bigger and more sensual. But not all lip issues can be adequately treated by injectable fillers alone, particularly older lips. Lips as they age often get longer, thinner and turn down at their corners. Adding Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Impact of Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is one of the most popular and well known cosmetic plastic surgery procedures. With nearly 300,000 women and well over half a million breast devices implanted per year in the U.S. alone, there is no question of its significant role in the aesthetics of modern society. It is commonly perceived that breast augmentation, Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Platelet-Rich Plasma Facial Rejuvenation

There are numerous types of injectable fillers, of which the majority are those synthetically derived. But there are a few autogenous or more natural fillers that are available. One is the use of your own fat as an injection after it is harvested by liposuction and concentrated. The other is an extract from your own Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Shape of the Eyebrows

The one patch of hair that both male and female share are the eyebrows. With few exceptions, everyone is born with a pair of them. Their functional role in mammals is to protect the eye from water and debris from above. But humans go to great lengths to modify their natural hair pattern. Unlike the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Science of Facial Beauty

The concept of beauty has changed over time and does vary amongst different cultures. But the basic tenets of beauty, proportion and symmetry, are timeless and unchanging. Thousands of years ago Nefertiti was considered the most beautiful of all women with her arched brows, high cheekbones, and slim nose. In the 1950s, Grace Kelly was Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Aging Eye Treatment Options

The eyes are always the first area of the face that begins to show the effects of age. They are also the most easily perceived as they are continuously viewed in conversational interactions. But of the many aging eye features that will develop, which is best treated by surgery and which are better treated by Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The 5 Minute Injectable Facelift

The treatment of facial aging has a new twist. Rather than lifting and removing loose skin in a traditional facelift procedure, the concept of adding rather than subtracting has gained some notoriety. The ‘5 Minute Facelift’ employs injectable fillers to add substance to facial areas that have undergone structural changes due to volume loss. Areas Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Facelift Misconceptions

The facelift operation is one of the most misunderstood of all cosmetic plastic surgery procedures. While often perceived as including the entire face, this is not true. The traditional facelift treats only the lower third of the face, the neck and jowls. Through incisions around the ears, loose neck and jowl skin is moved up Read More…