Solutions for puffy eyelids
The eyes are one of the first places that people start to complain about looking old. Why is that? The skin and support structures are very thin- in fact, eyelid skin is the thinnest skin
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Going to the Virginia Wine Expo? Here’s a timeline to look your best!
Here at West End Facial Plastic Surgery, we love wine. Especially Virginia wine! Dr. Schmidt and his wife discovered the Virginia wine industry shortly after we first moved here in 2005. We love to go
Read MoreTraining for the Monument Ave 10k? Here’s how to breathe better!
Richmond is an awesome city to get out doors and exercise. Back before I had kids, I used to run a lot. My wife and I lived right off the course of the Monument Avenue
Read MoreNew solutions for your neck in Central Virginia
Let’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 MoreAll about peels!
Here at the blog, we’ve been exploring the wide variety of treatments offered by our team of master aestheticians. So far, we’ve discussed IPL treatments and laser resurfacing. To quickly review, these are skin treatments
Read MoreWhat is laser resurfacing?
Today on the blog, we’re talking about lasers. While we at WEFPS love doing surgery, we also love less invasive ways of helping our patients look better. Previously we discussed intense pulsed light or IPL
Read MoreWhat is IPL and what it can do for you?
Here at West End FPS, we have a lot of ways to help you look your best regardless of your age. We like to emphasize sunscreen for prevention and our retinol-containing skin products to help
Read MoreAcupuncture face lift: Is this really a thing?
I 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 MoreEverything you need to know about rhinoplasty for men
Guys, let’s talk. In our society, most facial plastic surgery clients are women. But it’s okay to want to look better. In my practice, the most common reason men come to see to me is
Read MoreWhat you need to know about a “Saddle Nose”
Rhinoplasty has its own language that can be hard to navigate. Terms like “tip ptosis” and “open roof deformity” aren’t necessarily obvious in what they refer to. Today we’re going to talk about the “saddle
Read MoreJust say “No!” to duck lips
Lots of women come to me asking about lip augmentation. I’d say that the #1 fear that they have is looking “over done”, like they have duck lips. You want to look better, but you
Read MoreA BIG Announcement!
My family and I moved to the Brazos Valley in 2011 after I finished my fellowship in facial plastic surgery. I was hired as an otolaryngologist by St. Joseph and also performed cosmetic surgery through
Read MoreWhy smoking is bad for your skin
Frequent readers will know that I routinely recommend that my patients quit smoking to look and feel their best. All of my handouts about the different surgeries that I do emphasize how important it is
Read MoreEverything you wanted to know about facial plastic surgery: Part 2
Today 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 MoreFour things you should know about Botox®!
Pretty much everybody has heard of Botox®. When I was finishing my training, my wife’s 90 year-old grandmother was heard to say that she was looking forward to having me around because I “could use
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