Saddle nose is a depression in the nose just above the tip, that can be fixed with rhinoplasty. Where we replace the concavity with cartilage or bone. Is saddle nose serious? Saddle nose is not a life or death situation but can be serious if it’s caused by inflammation where it will continue to get …
The success of using filler on scars depends on the depth of the scars, your skin type, and how well your skin takes to filler. Sometimes it’s useful to do a subcision, where we break the scar from the deeper structures and then use filler to make it flush with the skin. Is silicone good …
Rhinoplasty is the preferred way to fix a bulbous nose. This is one of the more common procedures that we perform with rhinoplasty to refine the nose, particularly the tip. How do you fix a bulbous nose? To fix a bulbous nose, we reconfigure the cartilage in the nose to a more aesthetic position. In a …
A rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty can be performed at the same time. It’s something that we do all the time. The best part of doing them together is that you only have one downtime versus a downtime for each procedure separately, and you are only put under general anesthesia once. It’s cheaper as well because you …
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We perform multiple surgeries at once all the time. It’s very common for facial rejuvenation patients where we perform a facelift with eyelid surgery and/or brow surgery, and we might even throw in a hairline advancement or hair transplant surgery. We do this a lot for gender reassignment patients. If you’re wanting to make your …
Radio frequency does work to tighten skin, but the degree to which the skin is tightened varies from person to person. It depends on which treatment is being used and how well it stimulates your collagen. That being said, everyone should see some improvement. It typically takes 3 to 6 months, and sometimes up to …
A deep plane facelift lasts about 10 to 15 years, but that doesn’t mean in that 10 to 15 years your face is going to go back to the way it was before surgery. What is means is that at the ten to fifteen year mark you might start to see a little bit of …
The cause of a droopy nose, or tip ptosis, could be due to your genetics. Some tips naturally droop down while tips are curved upward. In that case, it really depends on your genes. Other causes of a droopy nose could be trauma to the nose or aging. A previous trauma to your nose, such …
A composite rhinoplasty is a graft that is used during rhinoplasty to bring the nostrils down. The word composite infers that there’s more than one element in the graft, such as cartilage, skin, mucosa, etc. Whenever we say composite graft in rhinoplasty, we’re referring to a graft that contains cartilage plus skin harvested from your …
Nasolabial folds are caused by the depletion of fat in the compartments of the mid-face/cheek area that causes the skin to sag and fold over, creating vertical lines that develop between the nose and the mouth, often called smile lines. Age and rapid weight loss are the prime culprits of this loss of volume in …
Russian lips are the result of injecting filler in the lips to increase the height of the lips and to give definition to the lip borders. This technique gives a very voluptuous look to the lips that has become very popular on social media. How are Russian lips different? Russian lips have more definition in …
A deep plane facelift is done by creating an incision and going under the skin to separate the skin and the SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) from the attachments that hold it down. Once untethered, we move the whole area, the whole face, and/or the whole neck back up to where it used to be. This …
Filler can be used in the apples of the cheeks to give you a more youthful look and a more rejuvenated appearance overall. This is an area of the cheek that you will see flattening over time. In some people, it can become hollow. It’s one of my favorite places to put filler. Restoring that …
Alar base reduction surgery is performed to make the nostrils less flared or rounded or to make the nose narrower at the nostrils. We can do one or both by making an incision around the side of the nose and sometimes in the nose itself to bring in the alar (outer side of nostril) and …
Hooded eyes are those eyes with excess skin of the upper lids that are heavy or push down on the lashes, or in some people, come down over the lashes. This can happen due to age and is typically inherited. Take a look at your family. You might be able hooded eyes in your parents …