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As the last ten years of my practice have quickly passed bye I’ve begun to make a conscious effort to write about the process of becoming, and being, a Plastic Surgeon.  I hope you enjoy what follows.

As physicians we go through many stages during our education and training.  Eventually when those years are behind us, we’re set free and for the first time able to begin shaping the kind of practice we had only dreamed about before.

More so than many of the other surgical specialties Plastic Surgery has two sides.  These are easily split into Cosmetic and Recons

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

It’s that time of year. Those summer days of squinting in the bright sunlight are now officially over. Better yet the holiday season is right around the corner, and if you’re like me you have a High School reunion Thanksgiving weekend to boot. This is by far the most common time of the year for new Botox patients to start making their first appointments. These interactions always seem to focus around the same four issues; 1- “I don’t want to look frozen.” Everyone says this the first time, and fortunately it’s not likely to happen.

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

Well after several months of having this blog I’ve often asked myself what I should I write about.  The problem is that it’s much easier for me to figure out what not to write about when I surf the Internet for ideas.  For instance,  I will not write about celebrity body parts and what seems to have gotten bigger or smaller on the cover of the tabloids.  I will not write about areas that I know nothing about, and I will not write in a way that glorifies Plastic Surgery to be more than it is.

Plastic Surgery means many different things to different people.  S