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...
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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...
Facial Fillers in New & Different Places
Over the last decade I have been using an increasing amount of facial fillers to rejuvenate aging. There are many reasons for this, including an aging demographic that is in a competitive work environment and retiring later, the recognition by doctors of the importance of replacing tissue loss to aging,...
Did You Know This About BOTOX COSMETIC®?
Almost everyone knows about the use of BOTOX COSMETIC® injections, and other neuromodulators such as DYSPORT® and XEOMIN®, for the treatment of the “11” lines in the central forehead, crow’s feet, forehead wrinkles and saggy eyebrows. But there are numerous other ways this drug can be used and interesting bits...
“Do You Think I Look Younger and Prettier?”
Perceived Age Reversal and Improved Attractiveness after Aging Face Surgery Recently I was the senior author on a peer-reviewed publication that received a lot of attention in the international media. We had articles in or interviews with The New York Times, The Today Show and The Huffington Post. We think...
The Operating Room Black Box and You
For some patients desiring elective facial rejuvenation surgery, one of the biggest worries about going ahead is the fear of anaesthesia. Fortunately, many of our cases can be performed under local anaesthesia with sedation, and the technologies today for general anaesthesia are extremely safe and reliable. For example, you may...
“Time-out”… in the Operating Room
Everyone who follows sports teams knows about the “time-outs.” Sometimes a team calls one at an important juncture in the game to strategize, or recover from a poor stretch of play. Or, sometimes it can just be for commercials! At The Cumberland Clinic where I perform surgery, we also have...
Why Patients Select Their Hospitals and Clinics
McKinsey and Company, the international consulting firm, has done a research study on how patients select the hospitals they want to go to. There were some interesting findings. You might think that the hospital’s clinical reputation, proximity to the patient and their doctor’s advice would be most important. However, the...