Runner's Face News Story Featured on 33 News Tonight I was featured on 33 News tonight at 9 pm on a segment entitled "Runner's Face" for those hyper athletic individuals who prematurely age due to volume loss. Melinda Arai goes through multiple syringes of fillers to...
Category Archives: Restylane
Leveraging the Hardness of Products in Cosmetic Injectable Fillers
Leveraging the Hardness of Products in Cosmetic Injectable Fillers How hard an injectable product is can be a very good thing or a not so good thing. In any case, I try to use products based on its hardness factors for differing effects on the face. One of the softest...
Use of Microcannulas: A Revolution in My Practice Using Fillers
Use of Microcannulas: A Revolution in My Practice Using Fillers Many of my patients who have been with me for many years have witnessed the revolution in techniques that I have developed for injectable fillers. Early on I started with rudimentary needle injections. ...
The Liquid Facelift Debunked
The Liquid Facelift Debunked A term that has become the bane of my existence is the “liquid facelift” due to a recent appearance on Dr. Oz that has caused quite a media stir. Although I perform a huge volume of facial fillers and fat grafting in my practice, it is...
Fillers versus Fat: Shifting Sand Concept
Fillers Versus Fat: Shifting Sand Concept Many of my patients try to weigh the merits of fat grafting versus fillers since they both seem to be equally beneficial to fill in the hollows of an aging face. However, I would disagree. For younger faces still replete...
Megan Fox Lip Surgery
Megan Fox’s Lips In general, I am not opposed to a more aggressive policy with lip augmentation for women in their late teenage to early twenties. A full set of lips can actually look natural in this narrow window of time. However, even by the late twenties when the...
Injectable Rhinoplasty: When, Why and Why Not
Injectable Rhinoplasty: When, Why and Why Not With the desire for non-invasive techniques today, many patients are turning to injectable rhinoplasty to make themselves feel better about their nose shape without undergoing surgical rhinoplasty. However, is this a good...
Managing Fine Lines Around the Mouth
Managing Fine Lines Around the Mouth Fine lines around the mouth is perhaps the most important and at the same time least important topic for a written blog on facial plastic surgery. Why is that the case? Because almost every woman young and old is bothered to some...
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 1: Graft Growth
Fat Grafting Using a Hair Transplant Model for Understanding Part 1: Graft Growth Looking at my fat grafting results I was puzzled initially as to why I saw results continue to improve in patients somewhere between 6 months to 2 years after a procedure. Being a very...
Lip Enhancement Testimony
My first experience with Restylane® was awful, painful and lasted a very short time not as told!!! I screamed everytime the needle went in. I have never had a painless dental block until now. This was truly painless and I hate needles. I did not feel a thing. This was...