Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women over their lifetime. Sit and think for a moment of someone with breast cancer. Do you have a relative- mother, grandmother, aunt, sister? A close friend? A mother at […]
Botox has few complications. The most common are bruising and “eyelid droop.” There are two reasons for eyelid droop. When injecting right above the eyebrow the botox could affect the levator muscle. In English, your eyelid functions like […]
I have been blogging ad nauseum about VOLUME. I almost never do a facelift under the age of 50 anymore, because those women who look “tired,” “older,” yadda yadda almost all need VOLUME. When analyzing your […]
I don’t get it. I was interviewing potential new assistants to work in my office and one of them has rotated through a bunch of cosmetic surgery offices in the Bay Area. She said to me, […]
Ouch! I got a question from a woman worried she ripped out her internal sutures two weeks after a tummy tuck when she fell. How would she know? Tummy tucks are a two layer repair. The […]
18. The FDA and Italy have decided you should be 18 before doing cosmetic surgery to change your breast. I am a girl who believes in girl power. I think an 18 year old girl in […]
Surgery has risks. Cosmetic elective surgery needs to be as safe as we can make it. It is elective. Most of my patients are moms. Are you at risk? DVT is a blood clot in your leg. […]
I saw a patient today in clinic who wants to change her breasts. She has been unhappy with their size and shape as long as she can remember. Perfect candidate for breast surgery! Sign her up?! […]
I am asked frequently, “How durable are breast implants?” Their worry? Will it break if I do a mammogram, get in a car accident, parachute jump, body slam, bear hug from Aunt Gertie, or my significant other is […]
This story was published in Dallasnews.com a week ago: It stems from an article written by a staff member of realself. He met with some female plastic surgeons (not me) to talk about social media: facebook, […]