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Fast food facelifts

March 3, 2008

I have had a number of patients, friends and family of friends ask me about the Lifestyle lift. This is a company with very enticing advertising and superb before and after photos. I have a few problems with this approach. According to the Hippocratic oath, medicine is supposed to start with a doctor-patient relationship. Before [...]

Relax and fill your face

November 27, 2007

Over the past two decades facial rejuvenation has made a large paradigm shift. As facial plastic surgeons, we used to do two things to the face: peels or dermabrasion for skin color and texture, and facelifts to surgically lift sagging faces. Now we do more commonplace things: Fill theFace. Enter Botox®; Botox®  has been used for [...]

What I did on my summer vacation

September 27, 2007

Remember the “old days” when this was an annual composition that you wrote in school every September? Well, I am going to revive this tradition. 
 
My summer started off with a few medical seminars. Boring? Not really. I actually enjoy speaking at meetings and teaching. Giving a lecture to doctors in my own specialty keeps [...]