Everyone wants beautiful lips that are full, natural looking, and free from lip lines. Traditionally, wrinkles around the mouth as a result of smoking, puckering and just plain living, have been one of the more difficult areas for plastic surgeons to treat successfully. These lines are not typically corrected with a facelift or any other type of surgery.

Fortunately, there are now some new tools that we have to help treat those fine lines around the mouth, the deeper lines between the nose and corners of the mouth, and enhance the lips without the awful puffed up Hollywood lips that most women and men abhor.

For the lines between the corners of…

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Tags:Exilis,Juvederm,Restylane,Restylane Silk

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery statistics for 2014 indicate that more men than ever are opting for plastic surgery. This certainly has been the case for our practice at the Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery.

Over the past five years, the increase in male cosmetic procedures has risen by 43% nationally, with blepharoplasty, male breast reduction and facelift being the most popular surgical procedures. For non-surgical procedures, Botox, dermal fillers, non-surgical skin tightening and Intense Pulsed Light are the most popular.

At our practice, these same trends apply, although non-surgical fat reduction procedures like CoolSculpting and Vanquish are also extremely popular with…

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Tags:male plastic surgery,Plastic surgery

Fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing can be a confusing term. What is fractional laser skin resurfacing and why might it be something for you to consider for rejuvenating your skin?

Fractional laser resurfacing is recent laser technology, performed in the office that rejuvenates the skin and offers minimal recovery time with a low risk of complications. It is considered to be fractional because it is able to treat very specific areas of the skin while sparing others, resulting in  smoother, refreshed skin.

Some laser skin treatments are ablative and others, like our ICON IPL laser, are non-ablative. What is the difference? Lasers operate with various wavelengths for different…

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Posted in: Laser Treatments
Tags:fractional laser,IPL laser,laser resurfacing

After all the holiday consumption, January often finds people consumed with losing some of the extra fat they picked up from November to January. It is not surprising that January through March are a very busy times in our office for non-surgical fat reduction techniques Vanquish and CoolSculpting. But what, exactly, is the difference between the two procedures?

CoolSculpting is an FDA cleared fat reduction technique that literally freezes a specified area of fat. It is an office procedure that takes about one hour per area (flanks would be considered two areas); so many people have two-hour sessions per treatment. CoolSculpting requires no anesthesia….

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For those who want to experience what it would be like to have fuller breasts but without committing to a breast augmentation, a new technique developed by New York plastic surgeon, Dr. Norman Rowe offers patients a chance to experience “vacation breasts” but only for about 24 hours with saline breast injections.

The technique basically takes about 20 minutes to perform. The injection site, at the edge of each nipple is anesthetized, and about a half liter of saline solution (salt water) is injected into each breast and, voila- instant breasts. The body then absorbs the salt water naturally within about 24 hours.

According to Dr. Rowe, who has performed many of…

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Posted in: Breast Augmentation,Breast Surgery
Tags:breast augmentation

It came as great news yesterday that the FDA approved Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Ideal Breast Implant for use in the U.S.

Back at our Virgin Islands Workshop in 2010, a friend and plastic surgery colleague, Dr. Robert Hamas, introduced plastic surgeons at our meeting to a prototype for an implant he had developed. The new implant, which he called the Ideal Implant®, combined the best of silicone gel and saline implants.

Dr. Hamas felt that many women liked the natural result of the silicone gel implants, but preferred the safety of a saline implant should the implant leak or rupture. Regular MRI scans are typically the only way women can detect a leak…

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For those who have a little extra fat to spare, which includes just about all of us, the option of having liposuction and using some of the excess fat for facial fat grafting or augmentation can make perfect sense for the right candidate.

Fat grafting is basically a fat transfer procedure that removes fat from one area, often the abdomen, through liposuction. The fat is then processed, and reinjected to the face as a natural filler for wrinkles and volumizer to the face thereby creating a more youthful appearance.

There are some other benefits of fat grafting over other injectables or facial fillers.Since the fat is from your own body, there are…

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Deciding the best time for a facelift is a personal decision and is not determined by age alone. Once skin has begun to show signs of deepening wrinkles, loosening or jowling, is the time many patients opt for surgical solutions. This can occur anywhere from the 40’s through 70’s. Today, younger men and women than ever are opting for facial plastic surgery or a MACS lift, so that they enjoy longer lasting results. There are several reasons why this may be desirable.

It has been shown that patients with more skin elasticity tend to have better and longer lasting results. Additionally, once skin has lost its elasticity, more skin needs to…

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We are happy to announce a newcomer in the non-surgical fat reduction arena; Vanquish by BTL Aesthetics. Unlike CoolSculpting, which reduces a very specific area of fat by freezing,  Vanquish utilizes multi-focused radio frequency technology to heat and reduce fat in a broader treatment area.  Vanquish is able to target fat beneath the skin and heat  it to 120 degrees while maintaining a temperature of 101 degrees on the surface of the skin.  FDA cleared for deep tissue heating, a known form of fat reduction, Vanquish destroys the fat cells which are later eliminated naturally through the body’s own metabolic process.

While not a replacement for weight loss, diet or exercise,…

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The idea of a Laser FaceLift is a bit of a mystery to many.  It sounds rather futuristic, and actually, it is one of the newest techniques in achieving facial rejuvenation, but it is not for everyone.

We have recently acquired the Precision TX laser for facial rejuvenation. This system is very much like our Cellulaze treatment that treats cellulite with a very small laser fiber that is side-firing and works close to the surface of the skin to break up the septae or bands that hold fat in place.  In the case of facial rejuvenation, very small (think pencil lead small) incisions are…

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Posted in: Laser Facelift