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Apr
I rarely perform a neck lift alone. As people age, their neck skin becomes lax, sometimes along with fat accumulation and muscle laxity. There can also be vertical banding from tight platysma muscles. However, the sagging neck often doesn't occur in the absence of fac...
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Apr
The fox eye is a very stylized eye that looks very fox-like. During this surgery, the corner of the eye, the canthus, is lifted up along with the lateral brow. Many people have their own definition for the euphemistic term of fox eye, with some considering it a lateral brow lift...
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Apr
Before we discuss the most effective treatment for a double chin, it's important to first define the term. A double chin is a euphemistic term. Patients who come in with this problem don’t really have two chins. Instead there’s a chin, and then there’s a n...
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Apr
The idea of a natural facelift is really an oxymoron, isn't it? A facelift isn’t natural at all. The real question on most people’s minds is which face lift appears the most natural.The facelift is a procedure where we lift up the skin, the soft tissue and the...
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Apr
There are various treatments for marionette lines that depend on the severity of the lines. The term marionette lines is a euphemistic term, because marionettes, like puppets, have these folds that emanate from the corner of the mouth and extend downward where the ligaments attac...
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Apr
As a general rule, I don't do liposuction along the jawline. The fullness that patients see on their jawbone is not fat, it’s descended tissue. On rare occasions, it’s the buccal fat pad that prolapses downward, and we really can’t liposuction that. Instea...
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Apr
With the advent of fillers we can reshape the nose without surgery. Traditionally, rhinoplasty was done through surgery alone, where we changed the structure of the cartilage and bone to give the nose a new shape. Most patients come in with areas of their nose that they want adju...
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Apr
If a brow lift is done well, and not overdone, it can fix hooded eyes by lifting the thicker skin of the eyebrow off of the thinner skin of the eyelid. However, if you have eyelid hooding, the brow lift will not address that. Hooded eyes are the result of the eyebrow droopin...
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Apr
We do a brow lift through a combination of incisions that are made at the back of the scalp or on the lateral temporal forehead. Previously, the gold standard in brow lifts was to make an incision all the way across the top of the head. The results were great, but patients had it...
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Apr
This question is really about how to best rejuvenate the eyes and make them appear more youthful. I prefer lifting the lateral brow endoscopically with a couple of small incisions. I can also accomplish this with a single small temporal incision. And rarely, we can use an old cor...
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