Category: plastic surgery

I have come to learn over the years of a patient phenomenon of what I call…the unrecognizeable problem. While it is not quite that common for major surgical issues, it has become more evident in minor plastic surgery procedures and, in particular, with all of the new injectable treatments that now exist. It is when the Read More…

  Amongst the many adverse effects of smoking on the body is its detrimental impact on wound healing. This phenomenon has been recognized since the late 1970s when a correlation between smoking and an increased risk of wound problems in surgery was established. This is quite important in plastic surgery where large skin flaps area Read More…

  In the most recent copy of the Plastic Surgery News, the statistics for procedures were reported for 2007. The total number of cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were not really different from 2006 with more than 1.8 million procedures performed for 2007. The top five cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were breast augmentation (348,000, + 6% Read More…

Plastic surgery encompasses a wide variety of procedures for the face and body. From nose jobs to breast implants, we perform a broad scope of body changes. While the vast majority of these procedures do very well and patients have an uncomplicated after surgery course, some patients will experience complications. The occurrence of complications in plastic surgery, Read More…

  Next to orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery as a medical specialty uses a significant number of implants and implant materials to help achieve its surgical outcomes. Whether it is breast implants or an injectable filler, the use of synthetic or foreign materials is common in plastic surgery. Often when a plastic surgery patient needs an Read More…

  As the economy continues to tighten, the level of insurance reimbursements from medical procedures continues to get worse. Amidst the presidential campaign banter is the cry for universal health coverage, talked about as if such a system would end up better than what we have now. That is an issue for a different debate, Read More…

One of the most important things we do as plastic surgeons or any surgeon for that matter…is to match the solution to the problem. Large operations for small problems run the risk of creating complications that exceed the scope of the original problem. Small operations for big problems simply will not work and are destined Read More…

  Cosmetic plastic surgery is very unique from traditional medicine in one significant way….it is elective. The ‘problems’ treated do not absolutely need to be treated, operating on them is elective. Therefore, one of the contributing factors used in deciding whether to go with one treatment or another is the concept of value. What result Read More…

One of the most frequently asked questions to me by patients, and undoubtably looked for on websites and the internet, are photographic results of plastic surgery. Specifically, plastic surgery pictures from the specific plastic surgeon that they are evaluating. Given that everything we do in plastic surgery is visible and capable of being photographed, most Read More…