Face Lift
 In time,
gravity, sun exposure, and the stresses of daily life take
their toll on our faces: deep creases appear beside the mouth,
the jawline slackens, and folds and fat deposits appear on the
neck. Facelifts counteract these problems by removing fat and
tightening skin and muscles, giving your face a fresher,
youthful look. After surgery, some patients appear 10-15 years
younger.
The procedure
can be combined with a browlift, eyelid surgery or nose
reshaping for more dramatic results. Incisions are placed in
inconspicuous places such as behind the hairline and in the
natural folds and of the face and ears. The scars will fade
with time. A facelift lasts forever, but you continue to age.
Years later, your face will continue to look better than if
you never had the procedure.
Eyelid
Surgery (Blepharoplasty)
Blepharoplasty can rejuvenate puffy,
sagging or tired-looking eyes by removing excess fat, skin and
muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. It may be performed
for cosmetic reasons or to improve sight by lifting droopy
eyelids out of the patient's field of vision. Blepharoplasty
can be combined with BOTOX® treatments to raise the eyebrows
or reduce the appearance of wrinkles, crow's feet or dark
circles under the eyes.
The procedure is usually performed in an
office with local anesthesia and lasts 45 minutes to a few
hours depending on how much work is done. Incisions are made
along the eyelids in inconspicuous places (in the creases of
the upper and lower eyelids). The surgeon removes excess
tissue through these incisions and then stitches them closed
with fine sutures. In the case that no skin needs to be
removed, the surgeon will likely perform a transconjunctival
blepharoplasty, where the incision is made inside the lower
eyelid and there are no visible scars. Stitches are removed after three to four
days and most patients return to work in ten to fourteen days.
Contact lenses may not be worn for two weeks.
Forehead Lift (Browlift)
 Browlifts can
revitalize drooping or lined foreheads, helping you to look
less angry, sad or tired. Using either traditional or
minimally invasive (endoscopic) methods, the muscles above the
eyes are altered to smooth lines and raise the eyebrows for a
more youthful appearance. The procedure is often combined with
other operations such as blepharoplasty and facelifts to
improve the look of the eyes and other areas of the
face.
In a traditional
browlift the surgeon makes a coronal (headphone-shaped)
incision behind the hairline, stretching between the ears and
across the top of the forehead. In a minimally invasive
(endoscopic) browlift the surgeon makes three to five short
incisions; then an endoscope -- a slim instrument with a
camera on the end -- is placed in one incision while the
surgeon works through the other incisions.
Rhinoplasty
 One of
the most common plastic surgery procedures, rhinoplasty is
performed to reshape, reduce or augment a person's nose,
remove a hump, narrow nostril width, change the angle between
the nose and the mouth, or to correct injury, birth defects,
or other problems that affect breathing. Rhinoplasty is
usually an outpatient procedure performed under either local
or general anesthesia and lasts one to two hours.
Rhinoplasty is usually an
outpatient procedure with our patients returning home on the
day of surgery.
Chin
Lift
Chin surgery, also known as
mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to enhance the chin with
the placement of a implant.
Chin surgery, also known as
mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to reshape the chin
either by enhancement with an implant or reduction surgery on
the bone. Many times a plastic surgeon may recommend chin
surgery to a patient having nose surgery in order to achieve
facial proportion, as the size of the chin may magnify or
minimize the perceived size of the nose. Chin surgery helps
provide a harmonious balance to your facial features so that
you feel better about the way you look.
Lip
Enhancement
Full and vivacious lips have always been
recognized as aesthetically important features. Some of us,
however, are born with thin, ill-defined lips, or our lips
lose their fullness with age. But the appearance of our lips
is now within our control. Fine lines and wrinkles, thin lips
and a drooping corner of the mouth are all areas that can be
aided with injectable fillers. The market is ever changing,
with new products appearing rapidly. Care is individualized to
provide a safe and effective treatment option.
Otoplasty
 Ear surgery is
typically performed to set prominent ears back closer to the
head, or to reduce the size of large ears. Surgery may be
helpful for “lop ear," "cupped ear" and "shell ear,†large or
stretched earlobes, and lobes with large creases and wrinkles.
Surgeons are also able to construct new ears for patients who
are missing them due to injury or other causes. The operation
can be performed on children as young as four years of age
when the ears are fully grown, in order to minimize teasing in
school. The procedure lasts from two to three hours and may be
performed in a hospital, office-based facility or an
outpatient surgery center under general or local
anesthesia.
Scar
Revision
Scar revision is performed to reduce the
appearance of scars caused by injury or previous surgery.
Scars are by definition permanent, but surgery can narrow,
fade and otherwise reduce the appearance of severe or
unattractive scarring, which is especially helpful in areas of
cosmetic importance such as the face and hands. There are many surgical methods of scar
revision, only some of which may be appropriate for a
particular type of scar or its location. These include
surgical excision, skin grafts, flap surgery and Z-plasty
(repositioning a scar so that it aligns with the face and is
less noticeable). The effectiveness of scar reduction depends
on a number of factors, including the nature of the injury,
your body's healing mechanism, the size and depth of the
wound, how much blood supplies the area and the thickness and
color of your skin.
Mohs
Reconstruction
Mohs Micrographic Surgery is a method of
surgically removing skin cancers with microscopic control.
This technique provides the highest cure rates and minimizes
scarring. During the surgery,
the cancerous tissue is surgically removed and a microscope is
used to check the margins and base of the tissue to ensure
that all cancer cells have been excised. With the use of the
microscope, the physicians is able to pin point the areas
which are cancerous and remove only those tissues, enabling
the physician to save as much healthy tissue as possible and
to prevent excessive scarring.
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