With the holiday season coming up, certain stress factors are inevitable: finishing all of your work on time, booking flights, traveling, visiting family, holiday shopping – the list goes on and on. Undertaking plastic surgery during the holiday season definitely provides the additional time to plan, rest and recover. With all the additional stressors of… READ MORE
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It’s that time of the year again! Only several more shopping days left to purchase last minute gifts and finalize your wish list. It’s easy for all of us to get bogged down with the holiday “hustle and bustle.” However, why not take a moment and look past the tangibles, the need-to-haves, and ask yourself… READ MORE
Most of us have at least one area that’s going to annoy us forever. No matter how many calories you cut and miles you run, you can’t get away from it. There’s a bulge or a spillage of fat that stubbornly clings to your body like a parasite. It’s no wonder that liposuction is the… READ MORE
Fall has arrived and for most of us, that means a return to normalcy from summer vacations, sun-filled weekends outdoors and barbeques in the backyard. Maybe all that time outdoors has led to some skin damage and hyperpigmentation or sun spots? Has running around from parties to the beach made you realize there are some… READ MORE
Cosmetic Surgery Vacations Can you kill two birds with one stone? The saying goes, “You can kill two birds with one stone if you’re very lucky or if you have a very big stone.” Lately, there are two attractive “birds” that have been packaged together: plastic surgery and a vacation. A typical plastic surgery/travel website… READ MORE
A recent article just came out discussing whether or not face and neck exercises can help make you look younger. The answer: Probably not. If you run a Google search, many electronic and manual devices will come up, but none can conclusively help target facial muscles and rejuvenate your face. While practicing healthy habits like… READ MORE
NEW YORK, NY (March 20, 2012) – The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) today released their 15thannual multi-specialty procedural statistics. The Aesthetic Society, which has collectedplastic surgery procedural statistics since 1997, says the overall number of cosmetic procedures has increased 197 percent since the tracking of the statistics first began. Almost 9.2 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures… READ MORE
The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery recently discussed autologous fat grafting as a means to increase breast size in appropriately selected women patients, rather than using the current standard of care, silicone or saline implants. What follows can be found at the official website for the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery www.surgery.org…. READ MORE
Because of the importance of this information and post for women with breast implants, it has not been altered and can be found on the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery website www.surgery.org. The controversy started in France. Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), a breast implant manufacturer, was shut down when French authorities alleged that… READ MORE
Do you know what really irritates me? As a board certified Houston plastic surgeon, I help my patients in answering their questions about “too good to be true” advertisements in my field. Liquid facelift is a common topic. Plastic surgeons define a facelift or rhytidectomy as a surgical procedure to remove excess skin of the… READ MORE