If you cannot get it done before surgery, you are not even going to try after surgery. Losing excess weight prior to surgery not only improves you chance for a good result, it also significantly lowers your risk of complications such as bleeding, infection, wound healing problems and blood clots. Weight loss is a lot […]

I started with the “Ten biggest lies in plastic surgery,” but I now have to add #11. It’s the ‘Laser Bra.’ This is primarily a hoax to lure patients into having breast lift surgery by making them believe that a laser will give them a longer lasting result. There are two problems with this:  A. […]

I received an email recently from a patient who wanted to know if I used a laser to separate the muscle off of the chest for breast augmentation surgery. Questions like this one come from patients who read things on the Internet and are swayed by what they read. The word ‘laser’ has been a […]

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has recently released its statistics for 2014 showing trends in both aesthetic and reconstructive surgeries.  They have been collective these numbers from board certified plastic surgeons for 22 years. Last year, there was a notable increase in procedures that are typically performed on patients who have lost a considerable […]

The ever-expanding marketplace of aesthetic manufacturers develops every year, new techniques, procedures and equipment. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of these gadgets and techniques fail to live up to their massive hype and fall by the wayside only to be replaced by new, latest and greatest soon-to-be failures. To promote these expensive products, unsubstantiated claims by […]

The so-called ‘expert’ patient is someone who has had some cosmetic surgery and now considers himself or herself as the world’s expert in that particular procedure. In the past, it was no big deal as they could only misinform one or two people at a time. With advent of the Internet and chat rooms, they […]

Did you know that close to half of the advertisements that you see and hear for plastic surgery are from physicians that have no training at all in plastic surgery? Sad, but true. Regretfully, any physician who has earned a medical degree can call himself or herself a ‘plastic surgeon’ and perform cosmetic procedures on […]

It is simply not possible, not even close. The photographs that you see showing dramatic results from the use of over-the-counter (OTC) skin care products have been digitally altered, falsified and manipulated with favorable lighting in addition to the addition of make-up in the after photos. It is impossible to get anything close to a […]

The ‘week-end facelift’ or ‘lunchtime facelift’ are simply gimmicks to get you in the office. You find out that it’s going to take longer than they implied and then the real recovery is even longer again. The facelift procedure that just cut out a little skin was outdated 30 years ago. Anyone who performs this […]

Several manufacturers of aesthetic equipment have come out with machines designed to eliminate fat without surgery and claim that the fat disappears ‘naturally.’ The human body had four ways to eliminate waste. We exhale gases such as carbon dioxide; we cannot breathe out fat. We can sweat out water and salt; we cannot sweat out […]