The number of plastic surgeries you can have at once depends on the type of surgeries you’re getting done together. If the surgeries are on the smaller side, a number of them can be done at once. Whenever we do facial rejuvenation surgery, there may be five or six different surgeries that we do all …
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The best facial rejuvenation treatment depends on the person, their aging process, and their genetics along with what bothers them about their face. For most people, the facelift is the best bet. It’s what makes people look younger, taking up to 10 years off, and makes them look more vibrant overall. For other people, we …
A wide nose tip is mostly the result of genetics but can sometimes be due to trauma to the nose. Another cause could be thick skin, which makes the nose tip look a bit wider. How wide should the tip of your nose be? The ideal width of the nose is not measured in inches …
Women commonly get hairline surgery for a variety of reasons, such as having a high forehead or for those who don’t like the shape of their hairline. For high foreheads, I keep the shape of the hairline in tact while bringing it forward and shortening the forehead. For other women who want more of an …
The best procedure to make your face look younger depends on your individual aging process. For most people, a facelift will help you look younger. This re-suspends the muscles and soft tissue of the face, putting everything back to where it used to be. As we age, we also lose volume in the face. Augmenting …
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Rhinoplasty can be done on a nose with thick skin, but it’s done with a slightly different technique than a typical rhinoplasty because thick skin tends to hold onto swelling. This means it could take a few more months to see results than with a typical rhinoplasty. It’s best to seek a surgeon who is …
Revision rhinoplasty is more expensive than first-time rhinoplasty because it’s more complex. Since, it’s best to have revision rhinoplasty done by specialist, it can be more expensive because these surgeons charge for their expertise. Also, the procedure itself can take longer than primary rhinoplasty, so your operating room and anesthesia costs may be more as …
Augmentation rhinoplasty is permanent. It’s done by adding cartilage or bone to your nose to create the desired shape. Your body heals around these grafts and shouldn’t change much over time. What is augmentation rhinoplasty? Augmentation rhinoplasty is a procedure where we add to the nose rather than subtract. Most often we perform this type …
There are various causes of saddle nose, which is defined as a collapsed dorsum, or bridge of the nose, which causes it to curve inward from the forehead to the tip. The nose tends to look like the area on a horse where the saddle is placed. Saddle nose can be a result of surgery, …
Rhinoplasty will fix a snub nose. Since this type of nose is too short and/or upturned for some people, we use your own cartilage harvested from a rib, or cartilage that has been donated, to lengthen the nose and create the tip dimensions and angles that is more aesthetically pleasing. Your snub nose can be …
To treat swollen turbinates there are surgical and nonsurgical options. Medical therapy is a non-surgical option where steroid sprays or rinses are used daily at home to help reduce inflammation. We can also reduce turbinates with radio frequency. The surgical option is a turbinate reduction where we take out part of those turbinates. Do swollen …
Most laser resurfacing is not painful, but it depends on the type of laser used. When I do a full CO₂ resurfacing, where we remove 100 percent of the skin to give you that even skin texture that you want, the process is not painful. However, if we do fractionated CO₂ or YAG laser, there …
There are two different causes of a pollybeak deformity of the nose, which is a fullness that is just above the tip. We call that a super tip. One of the causes is a soft tissue pollybeak deformity in which if you’ve had a rhinoplasty procedure and too much of the structure under the cartilage …
A string facelift is something that I don’t do, but it is done with dissolvable threads that are placed under the skin to lift the skin and anchor it to structures higher up in the hairline and around the jawline. How long does a string facelift last? The length of time that a string facelift …
A Tinkerbell nose lift is performed using filler that is injected into the nose to project the tip a little bit, and bring it up. This gives the nose that little scoop that Tinkerbell had. How long does a Tinkerbell nose lift last? The length of time that a Tinkerbell nose lift lasts depends on …