Your plastic surgeon will take a complete medical history and will also conduct a careful examination in order to evaluate your general and overall health. With an ideal tummy tuck, the patient will have no health problems, and he or she will only wish to remove any excess deposits of loose abdominal fat or skin. [...]
The process of aging will likely cause unwanted changes to a person’s expressions, causing them to look permanently fatigued or even older than they really are. These changes in appearance will likely cause emotional distress or sometimes even an impairment in vision. An eyelid lift is made to rejuvenate a youthful appearance to the eyes [...]
An eyelid lift (eye surgery), technically known as blepharoplasty, focuses on the human eyes. Eyes occupy a very prominent part of a person’s facial features. It is however the surrounding skin of the eyes, rather than the eyes themselves, that convey emotion. The muscle, fat, tissue, hair, and lashes all contribute to a very wide [...]
There are many reasons for a nose job including removal of bumps, reducing the size of the nose, and improving the angle of a person’s nose. All of these conditions can be due to natural causes or external trauma to the face. Rhinoplasty surgery is also able to help patients who have a difficulty with [...]
Any person that is receiving a rhinoplasty is going to be doing so in order to reshape or re-size their nose. For any person who is dissatisfied with the appearance of the size and shape of their nose, appearance can be improved. Reconstruction of one’s nose was one of the very first cosmetic surgery procedure [...]
An ear pinning procedure is capable of improving the overall balance of a person’s face. The ears will be pulled in closer to their head and/or reduced in size, producing a more natural look. Los angeles cosmetic surgeons are able to accomplish these effects by either removing the skin to pull the ears back or [...]
Otoplasty is typically performed on children between the ages of four and fourteen. Otoplasty surgery for adults is a possibility as well, and there are no additional risks or problems that are associated with performing the surgery. The surgery is capable of helping a child avoid any teasing from his peers because of his or [...]
Rhinoplasty, also known as Nose Surgery, is a procedure meant to improve the appearance of the nose through surgery. Most female patients generally have a nose surgery procedure to reduce the prominent “hump”(also referred to as a nasaldorsum) on the bridge of the nose. Rhinoplasty surgery also provides for narrowing the shape of the nose [...]
Realize that plastic surgery is a very in depth field. Everyday a large number of plastic surgeons take a role in advancing the techniques and methods used in order to make plastic surgery procedures safer, and increase the probability of successful surgical procedures. Currently there are many techniques, and advancements for products such as Breast [...]
Gynecomastia is the proper medical term used to describe irregular breast development in males. Gynecomastia is a condition that affects almost half of males during development and it is a fairly common condition that can occur on either one or both sides of the chest. This condition is the result of extra breast tissue, fat, [...]
A person with a small chin can appear weak and a small chin can also be the source of teasing and ridicule. A lower jaw that has not properly developed, with an irregular contact of teeth in the upper and lower jaw (a condition known as malocclusion) or an overbite requires a combination of orthodontic [...]
Currently, there are many lasers used for facial and skin rejuvenation and to treat sun damage and photo-aging of the skin. One older laser system, the carbon dioxide laser, has been very effective for treating sun damaged skin but has fallen out of favor. This is because it routinely caused extensive rawness of the skin [...]
Recent advances in breast surgery techniques allow for breast reduction (or reduction mammoplasty) using tumescent liposuction alone (scarless). Los Angeles plastic surgeons perform scarless breast reduction only in selected candidates, and may be performed without any of the traditional reduction surgery scars. Patients can demonstrate a 30-50% reduction in size of their breasts. Breast reduction [...]
Los Angeles plastic surgeons usually perform a mini tummy tuck procedure on people who have subtle excess fat and skin in the lower region on their abdomen. It can also be performed to remove previous surgical scars (such as a C-section). The scars from the procedure are usually much smaller than a traditional tummy tuck [...]
Plastic surgeons use the latest in surgery techniques in performing their forehead or Los Angeles and Santa Monica forehead lift and brow-lifting procedures. Forehead lift procedures can reposition and elevate brows that have become droopy and tired, and they can also improve the wrinkles that are between the forehead and the eyes. According to Los [...]
Any woman facing mastectomy also faces another difficult decision, the desire for and timing of reconstructive breast surgery. While the procedure is able to be performed many years after the mastectomy, recent advances encourage that women undergo simultaneous removal and reconstruction. Simultaneous breast reconstruction offers several distinct emotional advantages: the avoidance of a non-reconstructed breast, [...]
Plastic surgeons have outlined the important beauty differences as a means to quantify, identify, and evaluate the cheeks for a cheek augmentation using cheek implants. If a surgeon were to use the wrong size or shape of cheek implant, it may lead to a gender non-specific alteration of the face. Simply put, the cheek implants [...]
There are many gynecomastia patients who are men that never lost the extra bit of puffiness they had on their chest while going through puberty. According to Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Teitelbaum who performs male breast reduction in Beverly Hills, these people cannot see the outline of their pecs no matter what they [...]
Like starting to shave, the lowering of one’s voice, or developing an Adam’s Apple, a flat and strong looking chest is seen as a sign of masculinity. It is humiliating to have a chest that looks even the slightest bit feminine. Many women seek breast augmentation because they say, “I look like a boy and [...]
Augmentation mammoplasty, more commonly referred to as breast augmentation is a cosmetic surgery procedure that is used to enhance the shape and size of a woman’s breasts for many different reasons. According to Dr. Ameen Habash, a Palm Desert plastic surgeon, the reasons include but are not limited to: To balance a difference in size [...]