As a follow-up to the blog on how we relate to babies, Nancy Etcoff in her book, Survival of the Prettiest, argues that men are more attracted to blonde women than to darker haired women, whereas women are attracted to the polar opposite, i.e., a darker-shaded male. ...
I love stories because in a story I am able to convey a lot and make it memorable for a person. I remember a couple of stories that involved the Transport Security Authority (TSA) at the airport. I had one lady in whom I had done many facial fillers to make her face...
One of the biggest concerns that I have from prospective patients is that they not look weird, the fear stemming from seeing unnatural celebrities that are frightening to them in magazines and on television. The question I get all the time is “If celebrity X has all...
Survival of the Prettiest Part 2: Â 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 Prettiest, argues that men are more attracted to blonde women than to darker haired women, whereas women are...
Knowing Yourself and Your Plastic Surgeon:Â Clasping Your Hands and Determining If You Are Right-Brained or Left-Brained My Allergan business-development representative conducted a wonderful leadership seminar in my office that gave my staff a rousing and thoughtful...
Getting Past Revision Plastic Surgery One of the toughest things that I have to deal with is a patient who is dissatisfied either with my work or with another surgeon’s work. I have many individuals who come to me with a sullen demeanor about what another physician...
In my effort to find the best filler experience for an individual, I am constantly evolving my injection filler methods and the preferred products that I use to accomplish those goals. In the past, I was a big advocate of Restylane injectable fillers but of late have...
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 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...
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...
