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If you have excess, hanging skin covering the natural fold of the upper eyelids. If you have loose skin hanging down from the upper eyelids over the eyelashes. If your upper and lower eyelids appear puffy, making your eyes look tired and aged. If you have deep grooves under your eyes.

When pregnancy, severe weight loss, or advanced age leave the stomach area saggy and weak people look to a plastic surgeon for a tummy tuck. Medically referred to as an abdominoplasty, this procedure is a common aspect of a “mommy makeover” package; some women are more eager than others to regain their figures post-pregnancy.

How frequently is a surgery performed?  What is the most most common complaint from the person seeking the surgery? A drainless tummy tuck is essentially a lipoabdominoplasty which was originally described by Avelar as well as Osvando Saldanha, a Brazilian plastic surgeon who first started lecturing on this technique back in the 1990s.

If you’ve been doing research on cosmetic surgery, you’ve likely come across the term “Mommy Makeover.” There is often confusion over this phrase, as some people think it consists of one singular plastic surgery procedure. In actuality, a Mommy Makeover can involve any number of plastic surgeries depending on what the patient is looking for.

We have had a number of patients who come to the clinic having had 2 or even 3 breast augmentations for recurrent capsular contracture only to have it recur again. What many people don’t realize is that in many cases the capsular contracture is due to a slow, indolent, subclinical infection with s. epidermidis which typically grows on the skin.

Did you know that 80% of aging of the skin is due to solar exposure? Yes, it is true. Only 20% of aging of the skin is intrinsic. With that information in mind, you may be asking yourself what can I do to minimize my exposure? It is important to keep in mind that all races are affected adversely by sun exposure.

Dermal fillers Juvederm, Restylane, Belotero, and Voluma contain some form of hyaluronic acid, a substance that naturally occurs throughout the body and skin, with the highest concentrations in the fluids of the eyes and joints. Radiesse is a calcium hydroxyapatite filler, while Sculptra contains L-poly-lactic acid. Fillers can be used to temporarily plump lips, raise depressed scars and level wrinkled skin.

Vitamin B12 is an dietary molecular complex and is involved in the healthy functioning of the central nervous system, blood formation, and cellular metabolism. For individuals who have difficulty absorbing vitamin B12 from food, it has been supplemented through oral sources and injections for many years. More recently, vitamin B12 has been combined with three amino acids called lipotropics for weight loss purposes.

IN this anti-aging age, perhaps it’s unsurprising that vampires ancient, but with forever-young skin are a cultural obsession. Now a cosmetic treatment to fill in wrinkles or to plump up hollow cheeks is being marketed as a “vampire filler” or a “vampire face-lift.”

After decades of wanting bigger, rounder breasts, women are increasingly choosing altitude over amplitude. And modern science has a new array of breast-lift techniques to give them exactly that. In the popular conception of breast surgery, women who seek out the operating room are generally there for the breasts they never had. Whether you always wanted the top half of your hourglass to be bigger or smaller, there was a surgical option for you. Now another group of women is growing rapidly.