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Facial Sculpting: Slimming a Chubby Face With Buccal Fat Removal & Cheek Liposuction

Removing fat It is also very trendy to add more volume to the face with fillers or fat. The motto seems to be “More Volume. . . at any cost.” (Facial Contouring by Targeted Restoration of Facial Fat Compartment Volume: The Midface Wang, Wenjin; Xie, Yun; Huang, Ru-Lin; More Plastic […]

Understanding Liposuction and Tummy Tuck To understand why these procedures pair so well, it helps to separate what each one is actually designed to do. Patients sometimes use the terms interchangeably because both can create a flatter-looking midsection, but they work in very different ways. Liposuction is the removal of […]

The central issue is this: surgery is not just the operation. It is the consultation, the medical evaluation, the anesthesia, the facility, the judgment of the surgeon, the postoperative monitoring, the follow-up care, and the management of complications if they arise. In the United States, those layers of protection tend […]

When I perform a tummy tuck, I am doing much more than removing a little loose skin. I am reshaping the abdominal area by lifting the skin and soft tissue away from the abdominal wall, removing excess tissue, and often tightening the muscles underneath. In the short term, that creates […]

Why get a Tummy Tuck? A tummy tuck can be the key ingredient for body contouring. Unlike liposuction, the main purpose of a tummy tuck is NOT to remove fat per se, although some fat is removed, of course. The idea with a tummy tuck is to remove excess skin […]

Over the past couple of years, I have refined my technique so patients get shape and contour along the entire length of the lips and mouth area, not just adding volume in a straight line. This results in a much more natural look. There are 2 basic ways to enhance […]

Designing breast lift scars Many women want a breast lift, but they get understandably hung up on the subject of scars. I hear some version of this every week: “Can I just have the smaller scar?” or “Can you lift my breasts without that line down the middle?” I understand […]

When women come to see me after pregnancy, they often say some version of the same thing. They are grateful for their children, they know what their bodies accomplished, and they are not looking to erase that history. What they want is to feel more comfortable in their clothes again, […]

In this blog post, I’d like to explain why some women can’t restore their pre-pregnancy bodies on their own and why exercise and diet will NOT help you overcome true diastasis recti completely. I’ll also show some diastasis repair before and after pictures so you can see what the procedure […]

Scar revision Why do scars heal poorly? This is one of the key questions of surgery and we may never get a 100% complete answer. Wound healing is clearly genetic to a large extent with some people being more prone to making thick scars than others. For instance, African American […]