Posted in Breast Procedures
To Lift or Not to Lift—Your Breasts A significant number of women find that their breasts change over time. Aging, pregnancy, and weight loss can have dramatic effects on the integrity of your breast tissue, which impacts the perky, attractive qualities that most women desire in their appearance. If your breasts seem to lack the […]
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Posted in Face Procedures
Facial aging can occur in two distinct areas of the face: the lower third along the jawline and the upper two-thirds that includes the eyes and forehead. In the past, the upper portion of the face was treated as different parts. You may have wrinkles along the forehead, wrinkles between the brows, drooping brows, or […]
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Posted in Fat Transfer
Non-surgical dermal fillers are becoming increasingly popular, with over six million treatments performed in the past year alone. Women and men are choosing injectable fillers to conveniently achieve a variety of results that include smoothed wrinkles, sculpted faces, and enhanced lips. However, for many, injectables aren’t the cost-effective, long-lasting treatment they truly need. Patients often […]
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Posted in Breast Procedures
There are several traditional approaches to creating incisions for breast augmentation. Many surgeons will perform the procedure using either inframammary incisions placed along the inframammary folds or transaxillary incisions within the armpits. The drawbacks to these techniques are either unsightly scarring in the case of an inframammary incision or limitation on implant placement with the […]
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Posted in Face Procedures
Men and women who are experiencing unwanted facial aging may choose to seek out a facelift to restore their youthful appearance. However, the downfall of many surgeons’ facelift techniques is that they treat the face in sections rather than as a whole. To combat divisional procedures that only address select areas of the face, Dr. […]
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Posted in Face Procedures
When looking to rejuvenate their facial appearance, the most important element that the majority of facelift patients desire is natural-looking results. You want to look your best, and obvious signs of a facelift don’t help you achieve that. Whether it is avoiding a “wind tunnel” appearance or visible scars, patients want results that you can’t tell […]
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Posted in Fat Transfer
For decades, people have been asking why can’t fat from their tummy, hips, or thighs just be moved to somewhere else on their body. It is a cruel trick of nature that we easily develop fat in areas we don’t want it and struggle to achieve attractive volume in others. Luckily, Dr. Kao is a […]
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Posted in Face Procedures
I don’t mean to pick on Rene Zellweger, but this is a very common problem in cosmetic eyelid surgery. She was born with beautiful hooded Scandinavian eyes and gorgeous arched eyebrows to frame those eyes. As she aged, there was loss of volume in her brow and forehead/temple areas. This resulted in a loss of […]
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