Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. . .

Face Lift

As people grow older, the skin of the face begins to wrinkle and sag, with the help of gravity and time. Exposure to the sun, genetic influences and other factors can contribute to the effects of aging. A facelift can correct these conditions and give people a more youthful appearance. This procedure involves the tightening of facial and neck skin and muscles, as well as the removal of excess skin. Facelift incisions are placed in areas where they are minimally visible. The objective is to elevate the underlying structures and redrape the skin on the face in order to give a more youthful, healthy and rested appearance.

Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty (surgery to reshape the nose) can change the size of your nose (smaller or bigger), take off a hump, change the shape of the tip, narrow the span of the nostrils, or change the angle between your nose and your upper lip. It may also correct a birth defect or injury, or help relieve some breathing problems by straitening the septum. There are so many possible ways to change the appearance of the nose that it's important that you have a specific idea of what you would like corrected.

In general, the nose takes its shape from the cartilage and bony framework that underlies the skin. This delicate relationship between these structures is what is altered during the reshaping process. Incisions are very well hidden inside the nose, and occasionally, a small incision is made in the shadow line under the nose. By removing, adding, or changing the position of the cartilages, bones and soft tissue, your desired nose shape can be achieved.

Blepharoplasty

Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) is a procedure that restores a more youthful, well-rested, and vibrant appearance to the eyes by redistributing fat bags and removing excess skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids, puffy bags above and below your eyes, redundant upper eyelid skin, and hanging lower lid skin, all features that can give you the appearance of being older and more tired than you feel, and may even interfere with your vision. While it can add an upper eyelid crease to Asian eyes, it will not erase evidence of your ethnic or racial heritage. Blepharoplasty can be done alone, or in conjunction with other cosmetic procedures such as a facelift or a browlift, and the incisions are very difficult to see because they are hidden in your natural creases. Both men and women benefit greatly from this procedure and achieve good results with nearly invisible scars.

Otoplasty

Otoplasty is performed to set back a person's ear which are basically too prominent. These are normally performed on children, although it is not uncommon for adults to have this procedure. The minimum age is 5 years. The recovery period for both children and adults is 5-7 days.

Botox®

It seems like everybody is talking about BOTOX® cosmetic, the highly effective, non-surgical procedure that can dramatically reduce your toughest wrinkle. BOTOX® is used on the upper portion of the face and targets the wrinkles on the forehead, between the eyebrows' and the crow's feet. One ten-minute treatment, a few tiny injections, can reduce wrinkles that took years to form. BOTOX® is a natural purified protein produced by a bacterium that works by relaxing the muscles that cause wrinkles. BOTOX® is FDA approved and minimally invasive with no downtime or recovery. BOTOX® treatments typically last between 3-6 months.

Collagen

Collagen is part of the natural support structure of the skin. After the age of 30, collagen decreases at a rate of about 1% per year. However, sun exposure over one's lifetime dramatically affects collagen and is responsible for most of the loss of elasticity and fullness of the skin which occurs with aging. Collagen replacement therapy replenishes the skin's collagen layer, smoothing lines, wrinkles and scars, and adding definition to lip borders from the inside out.