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 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 […]

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 The facelift procedure that just cut out a little skin was outdated 30 years ago.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 […]