Lots of people come to me to talk about their options for their sagging necks. There are always options. In some people, we can disguise early jowels with filler. Other patients will be good candidates
Read MoreWhen I use stitches to repair a wound, I inevitably will be asked two questions. How do I take care of them? Are they going to dissolve on their own? I previously wrote about how
Read MoreI love it when the azaleas start to bloom! Here on the blog, we’ve been talking a lot about non-invasive types of treatments that we can use to help you look as good as you
Read MoreLet’s face it. You can use plenty of sunscreen, retinol, and the other things we have discussed in our beauty maintenance series, but you are still going to age. Our beauty maintenance tips series talked
Read MoreI was recently out for a run and came across this store front. Now, I’m certainly not an expert on Eastern medicine, but I am an expert on face lifts and I was quite skeptical
Read MoreToday we’re continuing our series where I answer questions that I hear all the time in conversations with patients, family, and friends. As always, if you have something you want to know, shoot me an
Read MorePeople come and talk to me all the time about things that bother them about their appearance. We discuss their skin texture, their wrinkles, their bulging, sagging tissues, and their noses. I always give them
Read MoreSo, are you on Team Edward or Team Jacob? Just kidding, I have no idea what that means. My wife tells me it’s a thing. Anyway, you may have seen a lot of ads lately
Read MoreEvery autumn, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has a meeting. It’s a time to reconnect with your colleagues from across the nation (and the world for that matter), consult with vendors,
Read MoreIn previous posts, I discussed beauty maintenance tips for patients in their thirties and in their forties. Why were those tips while these are secrets? Well, because when we’re talking beauty maintenance for 50-somethings, we
Read MoreGoing to the doctor’s office can be an intimidating experience. Other doctors have written about this on their blogs from their own specialty’s perspective. Dr. Pari Ghodsi wrote a good article about basic etiquette when going
Read MoreA couple of years ago, I went to a local spa to get my wife a gift certificate for a mani/pedi and saw that they were selling a little machine with metal balls on the
Read MoreIn previous posts we have discussed various ways that plastic surgeons disguise scars. We hide scars in natural boundaries between facial features. We repair skin cancer defects by moving adjacent skin that it is a good
Read MoreMany patients share with me their concerns about anesthesia. In a previous blog post, we discussed simple ways that we make our procedures comfortable. These include numbing cream and injectable numbing medicines which are used
Read MoreOne of the best parts of my job is that facial plastic surgery merges art with the science of medicine. During high school and college, I was very involved with music and theater. Unfortunately, I didn’t
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