High or Low Brows?: What is Sexier for Men and for Women? I am reading a book called Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff in which she says studies have shown that a higher brow actually looks less attractive to subjects who viewed various individuals with...
Category Archives: fat transfer
The Outer Face: Converting Double Concavities into Convexities
The Outer Face: Converting Double Concavities into Convexities The one thing that I cannot stand is seeing a face that appears disjointed, i.e., part of the face has been over augmented relative to another. Perhaps the two biggest problem areas that I see are the...
Cosmetic Facial Enhancement: A Mechanic vs. an Artist
Cosmetic Facial Enhancement: A Mechanic vs. an Artist I had a lady come to my office a few months ago who said that she went somewhere else for a facial fat transfer because it was a couple of thousand dollars less than what I charged. She then came to me to touch...
Fat Grafting: A Little Everywhere
Fat Grafting: A Little Everywhere Good taste with clothing means that the items one wears are in harmony, possess style, cut well, and made of good material. Good cosmetic facial surgery is very similar. The products (materials) one uses can determine the outcome...
Hollywood’s Pillow Face is a Problem
Hollywood’s Pillow Face is a Problem As many of you know, I love facial volumization in which lost soft tissue of the face from aging is restored using fat grafting and/or injectable fillers. The word that has dominated the media is a “pillow face” to describe this...
The Happiness Hypothesis and Plastic Surgery
The Happiness Hypothesis and Plastic Surgery A great book that I read last year was Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis in which the author outlines many parameters for happiness. One of his points in the book is that great happiness that can last for years...
Saving A Friend: When Maybe You Should Tell Someone You Had Plastic Surgery
Saving A Friend: When Maybe You Should Tell Someone You Had Plastic Surgery I had a patient of mine in whom I had done facial fillers and Botox treatments over a period of two years. In a word, she looked fabulous. At 47 years of age she looked like she was in her...
The Two-Finger Rule
The Two-Finger Rule Almost every day a patient comes to me holding up the sides of her face and asking, “Can you do this for me?” The answer almost invariably is no, and I would like to take this blog to have you understand why that is. I like to call this the...
Dr. Sam Lam Interviewed by Medical Spa MD For His Entrepreneurial Work and Facial Cosmetic Surgery Expertise
Dr. Sam Lam Interviewed by Medical Spa MD For His Entrepreneurial Work and Facial Cosmetic Surgery Expertise Dr. Sam Lam was recently interviewed by Medical Spa MD, an online community comprised of over 5,000 physicians and medical providers actively engaged in the...
Understanding the Brow as a Balloon: The Role of Fat Grafting to the Brow
Understanding the Brow as a Balloon: The Role of Fat Grafting to the Brow One of the most confusing things that I do is to inflate a brow/upper eyelid with fat or filler when someone instinctively thinks that her brow is already too heavy and sagging. If someone...