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Breaking down the Cheek into Aesthetic Subunits: Avoiding Chipmunk Cheeks
Breaking down the Cheek into Aesthetic Subunits: Avoiding Chipmunk Cheeks There is nothing uglier...
Glass of Water Emptying: The Way I Explain the Aging of the Face
Glass of Water Emptying: Â The Way I Explain the Aging of the Face When people ask me whether fat...
Recreating the Lateral Convexity of the Upper Face: How and Why
Applying art to facial rejuvenation is key to making a face appear optimally youthful and at the...
Survival of the Prettiest Part 2: Do Blondes Have More Fun?
As a follow-up to the blog on how we relate to babies, Nancy Etcoff in her book, Survival of the...
Type 1 and Type 2 Eyelids
Type 1 and Type 2 Eyelids One of my colleagues came up with the distinction between two types of...
Breaking the Brow into Subunits: Designing a Brow for Cosmetic Improvement
Breaking the Brow into Subunits: Designing a Brow for Cosmetic Improvement In a previous blog we...
Botox: Understanding Balance
Botox: Understanding Balance One of the most common things that I hear when I am working on a new...
When Do I Do an Upper-Eyelid Blepharoplasty and How?
When Do I Do an Upper-Eyelid Blepharoplasty and How? But should we always just add fillers or fat...
When Do I Do a Lower-Eyelid Blepharoplasty and How?
When Do I Do a Lower-Eyelid Blepharoplasty and How? Like the upper eyelid, I find myself...
Survival of the Prettiest Part 2: Do Blondes Have More Fun?
Survival of the Prettiest Part 2: Â Do Blondes Have More Fun? As a follow-up to the blog on how we...
Recovery and Cost of Fillers vs. Fat Grafting
Recovery and Cost of Fillers vs. Fat Grafting I would like to focus on two specific pros and cons...
Juvederm is My Preferred Choice for Facial Cosmetic Blending
In my effort to find the best filler experience for an individual, I am constantly evolving my...
Top 10 Things People Worry about After a Fat Transfer (During the Recovery Period)
Top 10 Things People Worry about After a Fat Transfer (During the Recovery Period) When I call one...
High or Low Brows?:Â What is Sexier for Men and for Women?
High or Low Brows?: Â What is Sexier for Men and for Women? I am reading a book called Survival of...
Cannulas for Facial Fillers:Â The Evolution of My Technique
Cannulas for Facial Fillers: The Evolution of My Technique Although I would estimate that only 1%...
Fat Grafting: A Little Everywhere
Fat Grafting:Â A Little Everywhere Good taste with clothing means that the items one wears are in...
The Happiness Hypothesis and Plastic Surgery
The Happiness Hypothesis and Plastic Surgery A great book that I read last year was Jonathan...
Fill vs. Lift in Facial Cosmetic Enhancement
Fill vs. Lift in Facial Cosmetic Enhancement This article is a corollary to my other article...
The Two-Finger Rule
The Two-Finger Rule Almost every day a patient comes to me holding up the sides of her face and...
Downturned Corners of the Mouth:Â How To Fix Them
Downturned Corners of the Mouth:Â How To Fix Them One of the banes of women's existence is the...
Understanding the Brow as a Balloon:Â The Role of Fat Grafting to the Brow
Understanding the Brow as a Balloon:Â The Role of Fat Grafting to the Brow One of the most...
Understanding the Role of Artistry in Cosmetic Surgery and Enhancement
Understanding the Role of Artistry in Cosmetic Surgery and Enhancement One of the greatest...
Eyebags, Shorelines, and Rocks
Eyebags, Shorelines, and Rocks When we talk about eyebags, we are focused on the obvious, which is...
How I use Permanent Facial Fillers:Â Fat, Silicone, Bellafill(Artefill)
How I use Permanent Facial Fillers: Fat Transfer, Silicone, Bellafill(Artefill) In my clinical...
Fillers versus Fat: Shifting Sand Concept
Fillers Versus Fat: Shifting Sand Concept Many of my patients try to weigh the merits of fat...
Differentiating Type 1 from Type 2 Eyes When Considering Fat Transfer to the Upper Eyelid/Brow Complex
Differentiating Type 1 from Type 2 Eyes When Considering Fat Transfer to the Upper Eyelid/Brow...
Dismissing Fat Grafting Myths
Dismissing Fat Grafting Myths After speaking with patients who are vaguely familiar with fat...
Blink Effect: How We Perceive Beauty and the Role of Cosmetic Surgery Enhancement
Blink Effect:Â How We Perceive Beauty and the Role of Cosmetic Surgery Enhancement One of the most...
Fat Grafting Recovery: Things You Need To Know Following Your Procedure
Fat Grafting Recovery: Things You Need To Know Following Your Procedure One of the biggest...
Stem Cells and Fat Grafting: My Thoughts
Stem Cells and Fat Grafting: My Thoughts Perhaps the hottest topic that we have today in cosmetic...
Fat Grafting Eyelid Series Part 2 of 2: Rethinking the Lower Eyelid
Fat Grafting Eyelid Series Part 2 of 2:Â Rethinking the Lower Eyelid This second article in the...
Fat Grafting Eyelid Series Part 1 of 2: Rethinking Aging of the Upper Eyelid and Brow
Fat Grafting Eyelid Series Part 1 of 2:Â Rethinking Aging of the Upper Eyelid and Brow...
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 3:Â Donor Dominance
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 3: Donor Dominance A new concept...
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 2:Â The Dip
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 2: The Dip The early swelling of...
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 1:Â Graft Growth
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 1:Â Graft Growth Looking at my...
Balance vs. Symmetry
Balance vs. Symmetry We have all heard that symmetry is one of the cardinal signs of a beautiful...
Rethinking Facial Implants
Rethinking Facial Implants When considering a cheek augmentation, consider truly what would...
Fat Grafting: Rethinking Aging of the Face
Fat Grafting: Rethinking Aging of the Face A revolution is upon us today in how we see aging of...
Leveraging the Hardness of Products in Cosmetic Injectable Fillers
Leveraging the Hardness of Products in Cosmetic Injectable Fillers How hard an injectable product...
Understanding The Anterior Chin: The Upside Down U
Understanding The Anterior Chin: The Upside Down U Aging of the chin area is one of the most...
Why I don’t use Sculptra
Why I don’t use Sculptra First, let me say that I truly do not believe Sculptra is a bad product....
The Importance of the Buccal Zone: Joining the Mid to Lower Face
The Importance of the Buccal Zone: Joining the Mid to Lower Face The buccal area is defined as the...
Recent Fat Grafting Video Testimonials
Recent Fat Grafting Video Testimonials I have had several recent video testimonials by patients...
Accent XL:Â Skin Tightening as an Important Adjunct to Cosmetic Enhancement
Accent XL:Â Skin Tightening as an Important Adjunct to Cosmetic Enhancement Sometimes skin...
Kenny Rogers and Bad Blepharoplasty and Browlift Surgery
Kenny Rogers and Bad Blepharoplasty and Browlift Surgery Obviously, there is quite a bit of...
The Outer Face:Â Converting Double Concavities into Convexities
The Outer Face:Â Converting Double Concavities into Convexities The one thing that I cannot stand...
