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Plastic Surgery Product Review: Radiesse Injectable Filler

While there are over a dozen injectable fillers available for human use in the U.S., many share similar chemical compositions. The vast majority are hyaluronic acid-based and, although they have different brand names and some differences in their duration of effects, they are vastly similar in their handling properties. One of the very different injectable Read More…

The Bluish Skin Discoloration of Injectable Fillers

Injectable fillers are an array of various substances that are injected right under the skin (or even down to the bone) to create a soft tissue plumping effect on the face. They can be placed deep into folds or more superficially into wrinkles. The most popular of these fillers are the hyaluronic acids or Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…

Treatment Options for Vertical Upper Lip Lines

The face develops many visible signs of aging. But none are more problematic or pesky than that of upper lip lines or vertical rhytids. Such lip lines are very bothersome to women as they not only suggest an older lip but also cause problems with lipstick, often bleeding into the lower end of the Read More…

Mini-Mommy Makeover Procedures

The concept of a Mommy Makeover plastic surgery procedure is about combining abdominal and breast reshaping in one operation. The breast and abdominal components are not new and include many well known procedures such as tummy tucks, breast implants, liposuction and breast lifts in whatever combination each individual women needs. While the effects of a Read More…

Product Review: Juvederm Voluma XC

The range of injectable fillers is astonishing today compared to what is was just ten years ago. But the majority of the commercially available fillers are composed of hyaluronic acid which has been proven to have a very low rate of complications and assured resorption over a predictable time period. The degree of cross-linking Read More…

Hyaluronidase for the Treatment of Injectable Filler Problems

Injectable fillers such as Juvederm and Restylane are used to help smooth wrinkles and fill in folds that occur from aging. They are injected into the nasolabial folds, upper and lower lips and marionette lines as the most common treated areas. Newer applications are for such areas as tear troughs, undereye hollows, temples, cheeks and Read More…

The Expanding Role of Injectable Facial Fillers

Injectable fillers have come a long way in the past decade. While once viewed solely as a wrinkle treatment, fillers now have an expanded role to help add facial volume. A host of injectable compositions are now available to help lift, mold and contour almost any facial area. The use of injectable fillers has spurned Read More…

Injectable Fillers and Their Incidence of Complications

Besides Botox, injectable fillers are the most popular form of non-surgical facial rejuvenation. While they have undergone major compositional changes since bovine collagen was initially introduced in 1981, their growing popularity is because they have an instant effect, are largely effective for the right indications and it is generally perceived that they have few complications. Read More…

The Use of Microcannulas for Injecting Local Anesthetics in Plastic Surgery

The use microcannulas has been a major advance in the delivery of injectable fillers. Besides a dramatic decrease in discomfort they result in no risk of bruising…two major improvements over that of traditional needlle delivery approaches. Despite these very obvious benefits, which are apparent in one’s very first use of them, I observe very Read More…