Cosmetic Surgery

The purpose of Cosmetic Surgery Guide is to allow you to understand what’s happening to your skin and facial shape and provide you with choices of therapies to provide either temporary or more permanent corrections.

Cosmetic Surgery Procedures:

Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck)
Abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck") is one of many procedures designed to assist in body sculpturing or contouring and address hanging skin folds seen with normal age or after weight loss or pregnancy...
As with many other body contouring procedures, abdominoplasty surgery is not designed to replace healthy lifestyle choices such as an appropriate diet and exercise, which have a more profound effect on weight loss and overall health. Regrettably, weight loss may accentuate the already marked skin laxity and folds.

Brow Lift (Forehead Lift)
The brow lift is a rejuvenating surgical procedure aimed at restoring a more youthful appearance to the brow, forehead and indirectly the upper eyelids. Patients seeking brow lifts usually have sagging brows and forehead skin. Typically this causes the patients eyes to look tired and upper lids to look heavy. They also notice deeper horizontal wrinkles in the forehead, made worse by repeated attempts to elevate the brow and often uncorrected by Botox®...

Dermabrasion
Dermabrasion is one of three commonly used office-based surgical skin resurfacing and rejuvenation procedures. The technique takes its origin from ancient Egypt in 1500 B.C. where healers used a form of sandpaper to even out scars. Today the technique has seen over 3500 years of evolution.
Dermabrasion mechanically removes the most superficial layers of the skin and allows your skins normal healing properties to rejuvenate the skin itself. It is designed to reduce...

Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty)
Eyelid surgery or "blepharoplasty" is a method of restoring a more youthful appearance to the eyes. The eyes themselves are seen as the most expressive feature of the face and often function to transmit our inner feelings. Blepharoplasty procedures correct wrinkles, puffy bags, and heaviness of the lids leaving patients with more open eyes and a youthful, and energized look.
The process of natural aging causes changes in the eyes that can make a person look tired or worn-out. Heavily wrinkled eye skin may...

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