Category: plastic surgery

Plastic Surgery – The Importance of Getting Second Opinions

One of the many wonderful things about plastic surgery is that there is rarely one way to approach or treat a problem. Plastic surgeons with different experiences, and sometimes different geographic locations and cultural backgrounds, may treat certain cosmetic and reconstructive concerns differently. For this reason, patients considering plastic surgery often get second opinions. Read More…

Plastic Surgery and the Recession

As the recession has gripped the U.S. economy in early 2008, plastic surgery certainly has not been spared. I get asked daily how the economy is affecting my practice. While most everyone’s plastic surgery practice is down in actual major surgeries, we now have numbers to tell us how much so. According to the Read More…

Nasolabial Release for Inverted Folds

Deepening of the nasolabial fold area is a common cosmetic concern. Known as the parentheses (by advertising) or the cheek-lip grooves, they appear and deepen with age. They develop has the cheek tissue above the lip loosens and sags with aging, falling over its junction with the more fixed upper lip. Their level of cosmetic Read More…

Expert Author Status on Plastic Surgery at Ezine Articles

Ezine articles.com is a large electronic article website which matches up expert authors with electronic publishers around the world. Dr. Barry Eppley, plastic surgeon of Indianapolis, has reached expert author status with over 300 submissions. This places Dr. Eppley in the top 400 of thousands of submitting authors and #2 for articles relating to cosmetic and Read More…

The Present and Future of Cosmetic Non-Invasive Treatments

According to a recent plastic surgery society survey, plastic surgeons are not immune to the economic and credit crises. Overall declines are widely reported in major cosmetic procedures. However, even in these tough times, the survey found that both men and women are continuing to spend money on non-surgical procedures to look and feel Read More…

St. Patrick’s Day and the Cost of Plastic Surgery

As St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated across the United States today, one can not help but think of the color of green. Green, St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland have become synonymous. History, however, shows that the true color of this day is really blue. But the wearing of a shamrock in one’s clothes has Read More…

Nine Cosmetic Treatments to Rethink – Examining the Facts

I read an article on MSN’s Health and Fitness section on the internet today, which while covering relevant cosmetic topics, did a disservice and injustice to many of them. The article was intended to suggest that the nine procedures/treatments reviewed were either unsafe or were not effective. As such, you should rethink them. Having Read More…

Plastic Surgery for the Older Patient

The population in the U.S. continues to age. It is estimated that people 65 and older will double in the next two decades. In fact, those 85 and older is the fastest growing segment in society. By 2025, nearly one in five people will be over 65 years of age. Because of this aging Read More…

Plastic Surgery for the Far Away Patient

I regularly get contacted from people out of town and out of the country in regards to their plastic surgery concerns and problems. This is not a surprise as the internet has made the accessibility of information available at the click of a mouse. Since information on the internet spans the globe in a Read More…

Facial Analysis Before Plastic Surgery

As a plastic surgeon, analyzing a patient’s face before surgery is obviously important. For anti-aging facial plastic surgery, a great detailed analysis of a patient’s face is not usually necessary as you are ‘nipping and tucking’ loose sagging skin…essentially trying to restore their look of years ago. For plastic surgery involving actual changes in Read More…