Category: plastic surgery

  Over the last half of the prior century, cosmetic plastic surgery was largely associated with the female gender. From breast augmentation to facelifts, women made up 85% to 90% of the procedures for making one look younger, more fit and to feel better about themselves. Men constituted a minority of the procedures and included Read More…

A recent article published on CNN online and picked up by numerous news agencies was entitled’ Smoking May Make Your Nipples Fall Off’. As sensationalized as that headline appears, there is more than just a kernel of truth to it. This is referring specifically to those folks who undergo plastic surgery of the breast, not Read More…

  The use of sutures is an absolute must for the closure of any type of incision in plastic surgery. Careful approximation of the wound edges and providing underlying layers of support by sutures are what makes the resultant scar from any elective plastic surgery procedure usually favorable and minimized. While the use of sutures  Read More…

The pursuit of the perfect female body is not a realistic goal for any woman, regardless of what plastic surgery techniques exist. Improving your own body through diet and exercise, and perhaps a little plastic surgery, is a more common sense approach. Women should only want to have good body proportions that fall within the Read More…

  Plastic surgery, like every other surgical specialty, relies on medical devices to create their desired results. In many ways, plastic surgery is a device-driven specialty as instruments and implants make possible many of its most well-known operations. One could argue that the hands of the plastic surgeon and their skill and experience who uses Read More…

  Weight loss surgery in the United States had grown considerably in the past decade. There are now over 200,000 bariatric surgeries performed each year consisting mainly of either a bypass or lapband procedure. Bariatric centers are located in every major city and I can count at least four major bariatric centers in Indianapolis alone. Read More…