Cosmetic surgery allows you to improve areas of your body that directly impact your satisfaction and happiness. There are a number of effective procedures that can dramatically improve how you feel about certain parts of your body; however, perfection will never be attained. Why? It’s subjective and impossible to achieve. The following are two reasons you shouldn’t pursue cosmetic
surgery:

Not interested in going “under the knife”? There are now many nonsurgical treatment alternatives that we can perform to slow down the obvious signs of aging. In fact, modern times and technology have truly changed how surgeons deal with the aging face. For many decades, the only option was a face lift, a major procedure that requires months of recovery time. Many new noninvasive procedures are now available that can be performed with almost no recovery time and at a fraction of the cost.

It’s one thing to make the decision that a tummy tuck is what you want, it’s another thing to understand what the procedure will entail and how to be prepared for it. The following is a good summary of what to expect from this procedure.

Like liposuction, a tummy tuck, also known as abdominoplasty surgery, is one of the most commonly sought-after procedures at a plastic surgeon’s office. In its most basic form, it involves removing excess skin and stretch marks from the abdominal area, tightening the abdominal muscles, and perhaps, utilizing some liposuction to complement the results. The majority of people who seek out this procedure do it after they’ve given birth or after having lost a significant amount of weight, either naturally or through bariatric surgery.

In my previous post, I introduced the most common reasons someone may consider liposuction. Let’s say you’ve determined this is a procedure you want to pursue…what does getting liposuction really mean?

​I’ve spent several posts addressing what it takes to be physically and emotionally ready to have the cosmetic procedures of liposuction or the tummy tuck. In the next several posts, I’m going to address these procedures respectively and what to expect. We’ll first cover liposuction.

In my previous post I discussed what a rhinoplasty procedure involves and how different each case is depending on your concerns and needs. As with any procedure, it’s important to have healthy expectations for your procedure and what can be accomplished. The following are pieces of advice I give my patients:

Rhinoplasty – the cosmetic surgery commonly known as a “nose job” can deal with a number of different aspects regarding your nose. Your surgeon can change the width of your nose, reduce the hump of the nose, and fix a crooked nose, and finally, there’s the tip of the nose.

When it comes to making an instance impression, your eyebrows play a big role in catching someone’s attention. As we age, some may feel the impact of their brow area shift from dramatic to droopy or harsh.

As I’ve discussed in previous posts, plastic surgery cannot make an obese person skinny. It may remove problem areas of fat that you have trouble getting rid of with diet and exercise, or remove loose skin that occurs with aging, after losing weight, or after childbirth; but it’s unrealistic to think that plastic surgery can make someone who’s very overweight look thin.