This 78-year-old woman had a history of heart problems and required a pacemaker. Otherwise, she was generally healthy just had high blood pressure but had never had a heart attack. She was hopeful to have a full facelift and upper blepharoplasty with concerns primarily related to her neck. To undergo this type of surgery, either…
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Isolated Neck Lift-Improves Sagging Neck Line
The sagging neck is one of the first things that start to bother women as they age. In fact, even younger people often “hate their neck”. The advent of videoconferencing and Zoom meetings really led to more and more interest in surgical and non-surgical treatment options for the aging neck. Non-surgical options include Sofwave- which…
Submental Liposuction – An Effective Procedure for Neck Contouring
Submental liposuction (also called neck liposuction) is an effective tool for the proper patient to achieve slimming and better contour of the neck. It is especially successful for patients with good skin tone, not a lot of loose skin and fat that is distributed above the underlying neck muscles. In many cases, a thick appearing…
Benefits of Upper Blepharoplasty – Eyelid Surgery
Upper blepharoplasty is a relatively straightforward procedure that can have a huge impact on facial appearance. With aging, patients develop some loose skin of the upper eyelids and sometimes the skin rests on the eyelashes. This gives an aged appearance and often makes patients look tired. The procedure, which can be done with local anesthesia…
My Ellevate : Minimally Invasive Neck lift-Great Technology with Limitations
My Ellevate Is a minimally invasive procedure pioneered by Dr. Gregory Mueller in Beverly Hills. It involves minimal incision to perform liposuction and/or skin tightening of the neck and placement of a percutaneous support suture which helps to define the jaw line with an internal suture. For properly selected patients, it can be quite sufficient…
Tummy Tuck and Hernia
Many women with desire for abdominoplasty have an umbilical hernia or other hernia associated with large diastases rectus. Provided that these are not complex hernias, they can be repaired safely during the performance of the diastases repair and generally, do not need any supporting mesh as the umbilical hernia repair is reinforced by the correction…
Chest wall asymmetries and deformities and Breast Augmentation
Preoperative photograph showing pectus excavatum deformity Breast augmentation with symmetric breasts is a fairly routine procedure. The plastic surgeon must take account of asymmetries which are very common. Careful measurements of the sternal notch to nipple distance and breast diameter are part of a thoughtful preoperative plan. These asymmetries must be pointed out to the…
Top 5 Reasons for Breast Implant Removal in North Carolina
Many women decide to remove their breast implants without replacement. I do a large number of explantations and had found that the reasons for my patient’s decision varies. Although there are a number of more recent concerns about implant safety, the majority of women choosing explanation do not have those as a primary concern. The…
Beautifying the Chest-How Breast implants can have dramatic results.
Breast augmentation can have a dramatic result on the appearance of a woman’s chest. Certainly, it is designed to enlarge the patient’s existing breast. Women with well formed breasts have the optimal outcome as the breast implant merely enhances the naturally well shaped breast. In some cases where severe breast underdevelopment occurs, the augmentation virtually…
Breast Explantation Surgeons – use Caution!
Breast explantation surgeons: use caution! I perform a fair number of breast implant explantations. The reasons women chose to remove their implants is varied. In some cases, their implants have aged, failed, ruptured, or developed a contracture which distorts the breast or causes pain. In many cases, the patient’s breasts have changed or grown larger,…
