Category: plastic surgery

Decision-Making for the Aesthetic Surgery Patient

I often wonder how the aesthetic patient today makes a decision, having to wade through a sea of information and options available for cosmetic enhancement. It is a daunting prospect to sort out fact from fiction, hype from reality and marketing from credibility. When you grasp how difficult and bewildering this process can be for Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Growing Noses and Ears

Aging affects on aspects of the face from the skin down to the bone. Virtually no structure at any tissue level is spared. But some facial structures have been purported to actually keep growing as we age, a biologic process that seem contradictory to the general aging process where cellular division and turnover slows down Read More…

The Relationship between Dental Health and Facial Aging

There are many factors that contribute to how one’s face ages and they are well known. But one cause of facial aging is not so apparent…your dental health. At least according to a newsletter that I recently received from a local dentist. According to the newsletter…’untreated dental problems can have dire consequences on oral and Read More…

The Trend Towards More Silver (Senior Citizen) Plastic Surgery

While many things have changed in plastic surgery over the past few decades, one of those has been the age of the patients seeking improvements. Older patients appear today for procedures than twenty years ago would have been unimagined. And this does not necessarily refer to the patients who seek facial rejuvenation, an obviously Read More…

Ribcage Narrowing Surgery for a Thinner Waistline

The desire for an hourglass body shape by women has a long history. The concept can be traced to the Victorian era where a very narrow waist, often times ultra narrow, was viewed as the ideal figure for women to have. A narrow waist, often called a ‘wasp’ waist, revealed flared hips and moderately-sized Read More…

The Male-Centric Plastic Surgery Trend

While women will always outnumber men in the number of cosmetic procedures done, men are increasingly jumping into the game. Of the 11 million cosmetic procedures that were performed last year, almost 10% of them were performed on men. That number may seem very low but it represents a doubling of male plastic surgery Read More…

Preventing Constipation after Plastic Surgery

Constipation is a common problem many patients, particularly women, struggle with after plastic surgery. While everyone has their own bowel movement frequency, patients after surgery may lack any movement for days or even a week after their procedures. Such slowed intestinal motility is due to a variety of factors including the effects of anesthesia Read More…

Social Media-Induced Plastic Surgery

In days past, the mirror or a printed picture was how we conceived of ourself. It has been said that at any one time we are three different people, how others see us, how we see ourselves and the way we really look. A normal person is probably the one in which all three images Read More…

Stem Cells and PRP in Plastic Surgery – Anti-Aging Hope or Hype?

Some have said that the power to slow down aging or to ‘heal thineself’ does not come from some external source such as potion or pills but from within. This has led to the popularity of two natural materials derived from blood and fat. Stem cells (in fat) and platelets are located throughout the body Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Fat Atrophy after Trauma

A common observation in blunt traumatic injuries of the face and body that have resulted in large bruises or hematomas (blood collections) is that soft tissue or contour depressions may appear many months later. This is confusing to patients as they do not know why it occurs since they did not have a laceration or Read More…