Cosmetic Surgery Center

The options for changing your body and face are almost limitless, and the results can be stunning. Traditional cosmetic surgery procedures that cut off leathery, thick, lined, and sagging skin long abused by the sun can subtract years from a person's appearance. Laser resurfacing can create smooth skin and remove skin discolorations. Dermal fillers can plump up wrinkles and minimize acne scarring. Endoscopic face-lifts can rejuvenate the face using tiny incisions without any cutting and pasting of the skin.

In the past, many people waited until they were in their late 50s and 60s, with noticeably aging skin, before they even contemplated cosmetic surgery. All that has changed with the advent of relatively non-invasive, lower costing procedures such as laser resurfacing, Botox, and dermal fillers.

Women in their early 40s and 50s may want to undergo cosmetic surgery to deal with sagging corners of the mouth, slight pouching or sagging of the chin and jawline, and folds along the forehead. Though hardly considered aging by some standards, these annoying signs of middle age are easy to change.

There are also endless options for cosmetic procedures that are only about maintenance or reshaping the face. Whether it is acne scarring, excess fat or skin, surfaced face veins, skin discolorations, hair removal, or changing the appearance of your nose or lips, facial enhancement has many options from which to choose.

We are in a new era of accessibility to cosmetic surgery and many people are thrilled to know their face doesn't have to look as old as they really are. There are many options for change these days. As long as the procedure is safe and the results are impressive, people will want to stay young-looking via any procedure that is relatively non-risky and permanent (although all cosmetic surgery has duration limitations).

For answers to all of your cosmetic surgery questions, please contact us online today or call us to set up your personal consultation with Dr. Rai at the Cosmetic Surgical Center, serving patients in Dallas, Texas and surrounding areas.

While many of us have body imperfections that we'd like to improve upon, there is probably no greater trouble area than our stomachs when it comes to excess fat and lack of tone and definition. After years of healthy eating and exercise, many people are still left to suffer with those stubborn tummy bulges and loose skin.

But thanks to the wonders of plastic surgery, there are options for both men and women who are battling the bulge in their stomachs. There are two options that are quite popular today to tone the stomach and minimize the amount of excess skin: liposuction and tummy tucks (abdominoplasty). Though both are aimed at improving the looks of your abdomen, the two treatment procedures are quite different.

If you have a "fat pocket" in the lower abdomen, thighs, buttocks, upper arms or under the chin that simply won't get smaller no matter how much you exercise, you may consider liposuction. If you're suffering from stretch marks, skin laxity, or a jelly-like appearance of your abdominal skin, you may need to have a tummy tuck.

Liposuction may be for you if:

Your actual body weight is close to your ideal weight, at least within 30%.
You have excess subcutaneous fat that is resistant to diet and exercise.
You want to remove fat pockets in the abdomen, arms, knees, thighs, chin, neck, hips, calves, and ankles.
You have good skin tone and elasticity without the existence of loose, saggy skin or stretch marks.

A tummy tuck may be for you if:

You have been pregnant and have stretched and weakened abdominal muscles and stretch marks in the lower abdomen.
You have a loose and sagging abdominal wall.

Risks of liposuction:

Asymmetry
Rippling
Pigmentation changes
Skin injury

Risks of tummy tuck:

Scarring
Skin loss
Need for second operation

The cost involved with liposuction and tummy tucks also varies. Liposuction can cost $1,000-$10,000 depending on how much fat is removed and which areas of the body are targeted.

The cost involved with a tummy tuck can cost $4,000 to $8,000 depending on the problem and the complexity of the surgery.

For answers to all of your cosmetic surgery questions, please contact us online today or call us to set up your personal consultation with Dr. Rai at the Cosmetic Surgical Center, serving patients in Dallas, Texas and surrounding areas.

Plastic Surgery, also referred to as cosmetic surgery, deals with the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, cranio-maxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk, and external genitalia. It uses aesthetic surgical principles to improve undesirable physical attributes of otherwise normal structures as well as reconstructing defects in someone's appearance.

Special knowledge and skill in the design and surgery of grafts, flaps, free tissue transfer and replantation is necessary. Competence in the management of complex wounds, the use of implantable materials, and in tumor surgery is required. Plastic Surgery has been prominent in the development of innovative techniques such as microvascular and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, liposuction, and tissue transfer. The foundation of surgical anatomy, physiology, pathology, and other basic sciences is fundamental to this specialty.

Competency in plastic surgery implies a special combination of basic knowledge, surgical judgment, technical expertise, ethics, and interpersonal skills in order to achieve satisfactory patient relationships and problem resolution.

There are basically two parts to plastic surgery:

Cosmetic surgery is performed to reshape normal structures of the body in order to improve the patient's appearance.

Some of the most common cosmetic surgery procedures are:

Breast enlargement
Rhinoplasty (nose jobs)
Face lifts
Eyelid lifts
Liposuction

Reconstructive surgery is performed on abnormal structures of the body, caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors or disease. It is generally performed to improve function, but may also be done to approximate a normal appearance.
Some of the most common reconstructive surgery procedures are:

Breast reduction for hyperplasia
Burn care
Craniofacial surgery
Correction of congenital anomalies such as cleft palate, cleft lip
Excision of tumors

Sometimes there is overlap with certain procedures. For instance, there can be reconstructive rhinoplasty to correct a nasal deformity, but there can also be cosmetic rhinoplasty, simply altering the shape of a normal nose.

For answers to all of your cosmetic surgery questions, please contact us online today or call us to set up your personal consultation with Dr. Rai at the Cosmetic Surgical Center, serving patients in Dallas, Texas and surrounding areas.

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