Category: plastic surgery

While aging is inevitable, how it affects the way your face looks and wrinkles is not predetermined or set in stone. You did get the type and quality of skin from your parents, but how you treat it over time will affect how it looks as you get older. A new study of twins confirms Read More…

  The concept of a daily intake of a vitamin pill has been around for nearly one hundred years. Healthy or chronically ill, the taking of a vitamin supplement seems like good nutritional insurance with no real downside. Offering 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of many important vitamins, a multivitamin is a Read More…

  As a plastic surgeon who regularly does procedures to enhance and improve the perioral region of the face, the color of one’s teeth can also make a significant impact on these results. Smiling is an expression that is framed externally by the face and internally by one’s teeth. Full lush lips that move to Read More…

There is sure to be much discussion to a provision in the U.S. Senate’s version of Health Care Reform which would impose a tax (penalty) on elective cosmetic procedures. With a tax rate of 5%, the measure presumably will raise close to $6 billion of the projected $850 billion price tag of the healthcare bill. Read More…

The recent controversy regarding the potential skin color change of Sammy Sosa is fraught with issues of history and culture. If you’ve seen recent photos of him, it is easy to see why it has stirred up such debate. My last visual memory of him was that his skin color was closer to mahogany, not Read More…

Having a complication after an elective cosmetic surgery procedure is usually something no patient envisions…or even gives much thought about. While it may be explained before surgery that there are risks involved, most patients understandably are not focused on those issues. This potential problem is given no more thought than the risk of being in Read More…

In reading a recent entertainment article which I came across in researching a plastic surgery topic, the writer presented an opinion on the top ten plastic surgery disasters in men. Using before and after photographs, they compared the before and afters of several well known male celebrities- of which there is no doubt that these Read More…

As October is Breast Awareness Month, it is important to realize that men, like women, can develop breast cancer. Men just like women have breast tissue that can develop abnormal cancerous cells. But by comparison to women where about 500,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed a year, the number of male cases is around Read More…