“I don’t want a facelift. I only want a neck lift,” is a desire expressed by an increasing number of patients. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgery, neck lifts increased 6% last year alone. What most patients are complaining about, if they just want a “neck lift,” is...
Face the Future Foundation Humanitarian Surgical Mission to Ulyanovsk, June 2014
Our Face the Future™ Foundation, of which I am President, mounted its second major humanitarian surgical mission of 2014 to Ulyanovsk, Russia in the first week of June, 2014. 13 surgeons and nurses travelled to this city of 600,000, about 600 miles southeast of Moscow. Here the local surgeons and...
Stem Cell Therapy – Fact or Fancy?
Just two days ago I had a patient come into the office to ask questions about rejuvenation procedures she had done “elsewhere.” One of her questions was about stem cell therapy, which she had done recently. It had been promoted to her as “the latest and greatest” treatment, without any...
Lola’s Rhinoplasty
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) Lola, a public health worker, is a single woman in her twenties. She’s tall and slim, with the striking good looks of a...
Mary-Anne’s Middle-Age Makeover
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) Mary-Anne was becoming one of the invisible people and wasn’t happy about it. She decided to do something about it and is quite...
Natasha’s Facelift Journey
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) The emotional road map through cosmetic surgery usually begins somewhere around dissatisfaction and follows a route through uncertainty, fear, courage, and hope, eventually...
My Real Life Rhinoplasty
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) Arpi’s Real Life Rhinoplasty Story We all shrink as we get older. It usually begins in our thirties, a little earlier than you’d...
Facing Your Plastic Surgery Fears
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) No one decides to get plastic surgery on a whim. Going for a surgical solution to a problem with an aging face or...
Dos and Don’ts After Nose Surgery
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog.) Every surgery comes with a list of postoperative dos and don’ts to help patients heal properly and be as comfortable as possible during recovery. Our extensive experience performing rhinoplasty (nose surgery) at Adamson MD...
Tips from Facelift Patients
(Excerpted from Dr. Peter Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog. Names of individuals mentioned have been changed to protect their privacy.) One of the keys to successful surgery is practical information, not just from the office but also from patients who’ve been there. Here...