Implants. Here’s why. Forget silicone injections. Like cement and glue buttock injections, liquid silicone injections are illegal, people have died from them. The silicone will not stay in place, irritates the tissues and can never be fully removed. Someone offers you a silicone injection? Run away. Buttock fat injections are legal but rarely last. Fat… [read more]

Both are acceptable. A third approach combines the best of each. Here’s the lower lid blepharoplasty information you need. Most baggy lower lids have excess skin and fat. How to fix this? Traditional blepharoplasty makes an outside incision under the lashes, separates the muscle fibers and voila! Beneath the muscle sits the fat. Bulging fat… [read more]

An implant capsule is thickening of your tissue around an implant. Capsules form when your tissues are irritated. They can develop around gel and saline implants but are more common around gel implants. How common are they? About 15% of implants on average form capsules. They can form soon after surgery or years later. They… [read more]

Similarities: both repair stretched abdominal (core) muscles, caused by pregnancy, surgery or weight loss, correcting appearance, lower back pain and sway back (lordosis). A mini-tummy tuck only repairs lower abdominal muscles. Who needs it? Typically a thin woman who had a big baby carried low in the pelvis. Also people who’ve had lower abdominal surgery…. [read more]

Excellent question. All surgery has risks. Blood clots in the deep veins are especially serious. They can break loose and go to the lungs – a deadly condition called ‘pulmonary emboli.’ Blood clots and emboli are more common after tummy tucks and liposuction than other cosmetic procedures. They occur about 1.2% of the time, or… [read more]

Easy. Liposuction uses either one machine (one-step) or two machines (two-step). One-step liposuction uses one cannula (long metal tube) to break up and remove fat. It is best for most people. Two-step liposuction breaks up fat with laser or ultrasound, removes fat with SAL. This takes longer, costs more and can burn the skin. Both… [read more]

True and false. This is what you need to know. Liposuction is a great operation. It changes your body proportions by removing excess fat. In so doing, fat cells are also removed. Fat cannot return if there are no fat cells. So after liposuction, with fewer fat cells in the area, less fat can accumulate… [read more]

It’s never one-size-fits all. Your face is unique. In some people, every area changes. In others, only a few. Going top to bottom, here’s some of what can be done. Forehead outer brow sags. A lateral brow lift corrects this. Upper lids skin loosens, fat bulges. For this, an upper lid blepharoplasty. Lower lids skin… [read more]

Easy – Board Certified Plastic surgeons, dermatologists and ENT specialists are the only specialists trained in cosmetic treatments. You are safer with a well-trained specialist. Many practitioners do cosmetic treatments for money – it is cash at a time when it is harder to make a living in health care. Depending on state law, any… [read more]

Only in certain cases, e.g. a very tall, thin nose, is cosmetic rhinoplasty (nose job; cosmetic nose surgery), likely to improve your breathing. It can make your breathing worse, unless surgery is specifically planned to prevent this. But it is impossible to generalize – your nose is unique. Of course, all nose operations cause swelling… [read more]