Everyone who has looked into the mirror and felt they were getting older (and didn’t like it!) realizes that much of our aging comes from sagging tissues (think upper eyelids and neck) and loss of tissue volume (think eye and cheek hollows and thin lips). The lifting procedures, like eyelid...
Archives: December 2013
What’s Up? (Your Nose!) Simple Remedy to Unclogging Your Nose in Winter
Even though it is not allergy season, many people find their nasal breathing gets more difficult and they have much more crusting in their nose during the winter months. There are actually good reasons why this occurs, and some simple remedies. First, a word about how your nose works for...
Changing the Face of the Future
There are hundreds of thousands of children around the world, many in under-developed countries or in under-privileged social situations, who suffer from facial deformities. These may be congenital, such as the common cleft lip and palate (about one in 500 births), or more uncommon such as microtia (absent ears) or...
Big Ears, Big Problems: Children and Otoplasty
The condition of protruding ears is one that has attracted many epithets – bat, elephant, donkey, dumbo, butterfly, lop, flop and jug ears to name but a few. There was a day when these terms may have been used somewhat humorously, or considered only as a teasing term. Today we...