Category: plastic surgery

E-Cigarettes and Plastic Surgery

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have increased dramatically in awareness and use over the past few years. In plastic surgery, just like in the rest of the society, we are seeing an increasing number of patients presenting in consultations or for surgery who use them. The number still pales in comparison to patients who use tobacco-based cigarettes Read More…

Real Self 100 – Dr. Barry Eppley

Real Self is one of the internet’s top sites for patient information on cosmetic and plastic surgery procedures. If you are looking to have any face or body cosmetic surgery, Real Self is a great consumer website that is very much a social network for those who want have a procedure done or are looking Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Function of Eyebrows

Why do we have eyebrows? They initially seem to have no specific purpose. They are just a clump of short hairs coming our of the skin over the brow bones which create a wide variety of eyebrow shapes. While their biologic purpose may be perplexing, their aesthetic value can not be debated. They are plucked, Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Supraorbital Nerve Repair by Interpositional Grafting

Background: The frontal nerve of the forehead is better known as the supraorbital nerve. It is the terminal branch of first division of the trigeminal or fifth cranial. Like the rest of the trigeminal nerve, it is responsible for supplying sensation or feeling to its distribution. For the supraorbital nerve, this means feeling to the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product: EMEND Antiemetic Drug

One of the greatest fears of many elective cosmetic surgery patients is the fear that having anesthesia will induce after surgery nausea and vomiting. This is most manifest in those patients that had surgery and general anesthesia before and developed exactly that…prolonged wretching after surgery. It is not the fear of surgery and pain or Read More…

Tongue Patch Method For Short-term Weight Loss

There have been innumerable methods for weight loss over the years from simple pills to invasive bariatric surgery. All have been associated with varying degrees of success and durability. There is no one single method that works for or is for everyone. Surgical approaches are usually associated with the most rapid forms of weight loss Read More…

The Biocompatibility of Silicone Polymer Implants in Plastic Surgery

Short of metal implants used for fixation and repair in bone surgery, most implants used in plastic surgery are composed of a silicone-based material. It may have varying states of being a solid, (soft to more firm) but silicone-containing implants have long been recognized as one of, if not the most, biocompatible synthetic material in Read More…

Plastic Surgery Children’s Book – Ellie Hears An Elephant

Children and teenagers can be afflicted by numerous types of physical birth defects, some of which cause medical problems and others which are more about looking different and being less than ‘perfect’. With a developing and sometimes fragile self-image, prominent appearance differences can be a potential source of embarrassment. Plastic surgeons see children and young teens Read More…

The Selfie Influence on Plastic Surgery

The term ‘selfie’ has become a popular urban term which refers to a self-portrait usually taken with a camera phone. They are usually spontaneous and casual in nature, typically taken at arm’s length or in a mirror and may include just the holder or as many other people that can be gotten into focus. The Read More…

2013 Plastic Surgery Annual Statistics for Cosmetic Procedures

Every year at this time, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons releases the annual procedural statistics from the previous year. This is always a good snap shot of the state of the specialty. From a cosmetic standpoint, there were over 15 million procedures performed in 2013. This includes both invasive surgery, minimally invasive and Read More…