Undergoing any type of surgery can be intimidating and may cause you a certain amount of anxiety, including voluntary surgeries like plastic surgery. However, by being under the care of a trusted surgeon and staff you have nothing to worry about. In order to be prepared as best as possible, it’s helpful to understand what …
Undergoing Plastic Surgery? 3 Things to Be Prepared For Read More »
This is it: you’ve spent the money and are now enjoying your brand new look. But how can you keep the results for as long as possible? You have put a lot—financially, physically, and emotionally—into this procedure. And following these steps can help you keep your investment in tip-top condition. No matter what type of …
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Thanks to TV, movies, and the internet, plastic surgery has been glamorized. And thanks to its incredible success, it’s been popularized. But how did plastic surgery get its start anyway? It’s a fairly new medicine field, right? Actually, it goes back a lot further than one would expect. Plastic Surgery in the Ancient World Chances …
No matter what kind of cosmetic procedure you are getting, chances are that it will be costing you at least hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. The price of the procedure will vary depending on what it is, how big of a procedure it is, your doctor, your location, and many other things, but one …
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The medical field understands the difference between a residency trained “plastic surgeon” and a “cosmetic surgeon”. Unfortunately, many patients don’t understand this distinction. It is out of control. Gynecologists, internists, ER doctors… everyone is claiming they are “cosmetic surgeons”. Most with little to no formal training. Patients are getting mislead, patients are getting deformed and …
Lack of training in plastic surgery can be deadly Read More »
Discounted, cheap plastic surgery usually implies shortcuts. Shortcuts on training, shortcuts on safety, shortcuts on attention to detail… In the USA today last week there was a series of articles on plastic surgery. One was titled, “Cosmetic surgery gets cheaper, faster, scarier”. There article discussed discounted, cheap plastic surgery and some of the risks involved. …
The hardest part of a patient’s Plastic Surgery journey is often finding the right Plastic Surgeon for them. A great Plastic Surgeon has the accreditation, education, training and experience to sustain his medical skill, as well as the aesthetic, artistic eye for detail that enhancing, reconstructing and otherwise altering the human body requires. It can …
While recently attending a conference, I met a doctor who was exploring the cosmetic market. His training was in ObGyn and he has likely delivered thousands of babies with a very high success rate in the New York area. Because of new insurance restrictions, and with greater government oversight on that type of medical care …
It is amazing how small the world has become. Today I was answering some emails from recent out of town patients of ours and it struck me how many out of town plastic surgery patients we see. Currently over 1/3 of our patients are from out of the state of Utah, some from out of the country. …
The lengths that people will travel for plastic surgery Read More »
Plastic surgery isn’t what is portrayed in the movies and on television. Drugs are not smuggled in breast implants, plastic surgeons are not surgically disguising criminals. The “reality” of TV shows like The Swan and Extreme Makeover is that it is never the goal of plastic surgeons to make a patient virtually unrecognizable to their …
