Body Areas

Aging gracefully... an oxymoron or a mantra?  This question is the crux of Plastic Surgery today.  Years ago most people didn’t commit to surgical procedures until a large overhaul surgery in the last quarter of their lives, if at all.  Today many more options exist then ever before, but before we can really have a discussion about how to tame Father Time’s effects we have to talk about what’s really going on during aging.  Knowledge about these processes can be very powerful in diverting them.

I just got back from an intensive five day conference in San Francisco entitled The Art of Rhinoplasty.  This course has been in existence for 47 years, all under the watch of Dr. Leslie Bernstein.  Dr. Bernstein is in his eighties and his enthusiasm for teaching his accumulated knowledge involving the nose to his pupils is electric.  I feel as though I was lucky to meet someone whose found his life’s passion.  Dr.

Throughout a woman’s life her breasts change.  That can mean a lot of different things to those of you reading this.  Small breasts may become large during pregnancy and stay that way, large breasts can deflate and droop later in life, and breast development can seem to never have taken place at all.  As luck, and Plastic Surgeons, would have it there’s a solution to each of these dilemmas.

Breast surgery should center around the three S’s

Size, Shape, and Scars

A woman’s breast size needs to be compared to her body’s

I think most people would agree that there are few areas on the human body that have a deeper connection to who an individual is then the eyes.  I suppose this is because of the eye’s ability to convey emotion and to hint at what an individual may be feeling as in, “a window into the soul”.  When someone is considering cosmetic eye surgery usually their biggest fear is that they don’t want to drastically change their appearance.  Generally what they are saying is that they don’t want to change their identity that they feel they convey with their eyes.  What most of these