Archive for February, 2011

We often recommend that patients achieve a healthy weight, hopefully at or near the ideal weight for your body, before getting a tummy tuck. Being at this weight allows us to design a procedure that will help you get the best possible results for you because we can best gauge how much skin to remove […]

Recently, proponents of breast augmentation using fat grafting published an article in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal claiming that the main causes for concern were due to laboratory situations that are not related to actual clinical practice. They claim that because there have been over 2000 fat-grafting procedures to the breast performed without a single documented […]

This month, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons released its statistics on the number of plastic surgery and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures performed in 2010. The figures show that the total number of procedures increased by 5% from 2009 to a total of 13.1 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures. As expected, breast augmentation remains the most […]

Sometimes people ask this question, and the answer isn’t straightforward, nor is it exactly meaningful. A lot of times, people want an answer that will say something like, “you’ll look 10-15 years younger,” because this is a simple calculation. Though a face lift does turn back the clock, it doesn’t turn it back in any […]