Tips for Communicating with Your Plastic Surgeon
When it comes to choosing a plastic surgeon, you want someone with the qualifications and skill in the operating room to get the job done--but you also want someone with good soft skills. These skills, like professional demeanor, trustworthiness and likability, can be hard to pin down. They can’t be [...]
Where Will My Breast Augmentation Incision Be ?
If you’ve chosen to have breast augmentation surgery, you want to end up with lovely breasts. Your image of this probably doesn’t include much in the way of visible scars. But breast augmentation is surgery, and surgery includes incisions. Where will those incisions go, and how apparent will their scars [...]
Best Practices for Minimizing Scars
Every scar is a mini miracle of regeneration. Just as a starfish builds a new arm, your skin automatically start rebuilding when you are cut, whether by injury or surgery. Your body starts by creating its own bandaid with the formation of a scab. Under that scab, skin and blood vessels begin [...]
Choosing the Right Approach for Youthful Eyes
Be honest--Have you ever stood in front of a mirror, fingertips pushing back at your temples, looking for your old self? You might not even mind getting older. It’s more about how tired, stressed out and even grumpy you look, even when that’s not how you feel inside. More than [...]
Saline or Silicone: Choosing the Right Breast Implant for You
Once you’ve weighed the pros and cons of breast augmentation and know you want to go forward with the procedure, you might think the decision-making is over. But breast augmentation is not a one-size-fits-all procedure. You will have a few more decisions to make along the way. The Three F’s [...]
How to Choose the Right Sunscreen for your Face
What if there was a product---a cream, say---that you could put on your face that could dramatically slow the signs of aging? Something that was proven to work in study after study. How far would you travel to get it? How much would you be willing to spend? Well, you [...]
The Money Question: How Will You Pay for Breast Augmentation Costs?
You’ve done your research and you know that breast augmentation is the right choice for you. Now you have to decide how you will pay for it. There are several costs involved with any surgery, and breast enhancement is no different. Some costs you may incur include: Surgeon’s fees Implant [...]
3 Things You Should Know about a Tummy Tuck
Just like our bodies, tummy tucks come in different shapes and sizes. Knowing the differences will help you choose the right doctor and make you a good partner in your own care. All of which means a better outcome. A tummy tuck, or abdominoplasty, can successfully flatten out your abdomen [...]
Letters Don’t Matter: Getting the Size and Shape Right
In the world of breast augmentation surgery, you would think all roads lead to a “C” cup. For a large percentage of women, this represents the “just-right” breast size, not too big, not too small. But a C cup on one woman does not look the same as it does [...]