Tuesday, July 15, 2008 

All Plastic Surgeons Claim That They Strive for "Natural" Results

Ultimately, Plastic Surgery Questions For Your Doctor will probably make your choice base upon emotional or subconscious reasons, but these are at least some of the things that you should be thinking about:

Websites are only websites, but there is a profound difference between them, both in style and in content. I am surprised how well these differences actually correspond to the different personalities of the hosting plastic surgeons.

Look at the photographs. A broken clock is right twice a day, so everyone should have some good photos. Is the lighting and camera angle consistent in all the photos? In breast augmentation, are they showing you all three views on each patient at the same interval from surgery (even a bad result has at least one good angle at one point after surgery!)

We will arrange for you to speak with some of our patients - this can be very helpful.
Shop price only if you absolutely have to. Liposuction one thing to shop price Plastic Surgery In Los Angeles buying a car; you'll get the same car no matter which dealer you get it from. But your experience will be totally different with each doctor - from the preoperative visits to the actual surgery, all the way through your postoperative course. No two doctors will be the same. Figure out who your first choice is, and then see if you can make it work financially. You won't be able to make a decision just from the internet - you will need to go on consults, probably more than one, or enough until you feel comfortable with a doctor. One doctor will emerge as your preference.

Do not dwell too much on which The History Of Plastic Surgery procedure the doctor is going to do, e.g. composite facelift v. deep plane facelift - the difference between your result will be more of a difference in Liposuction or aesthetic between the doctors than it will be due to a difference in technique.

You might not be a doctor, but you should have the ability to realize who is making sense. Do not choose a plastic surgeon overly confident, eager, or aggressive - but nor should you choose someone overly negative. There is somewhere a balance between hearing about risks and complications and hearing about the positives of surgery, and you should find a surgeon that explains things in a way that sounds realistic.

Dave Stringham is the President of LookingYourBest.com an online resource for plastic surgery.

Find plastic surgeons throughout the United States that are board certified like Dr. Steven Teitelbaum - a plastic surgeon in Santa Monica

"Nip/Tuck" will come to an end after the plastic surgery drama's sixth season wraps in early 2011, cable channel FX said Tuesday.

 

Botox, Surgical Decompression and Migraine Headache Relief

The treatment of migraine headache patients by Botox injections has been shown to be effective in specific patients who have identifiable triggers of Peeling supraorbital and supratrochlear, zygomaticotemporal, greater occipital, and septal trigeminal nerves. The temporary relief from Botox has led to Chinlift concept that relieving pressure on the nerves by muscle resection (surgical decompression) can subsequently be effective and may provide Go For Nose Surgery Beverly Hills more long-term solution to the migraine problem. Since Botox relaxes muscles around the nerve, the concept of nerve decompression through muscle resection is a logical transition. The use of Botox then becomes a qualifier to determine if nerve decompression is likely to be successful.

Surgical decompression of migraines, pioneered by plastic surgeon Dr. Guyuron in Cleveland, has shown that a high percentage of carefully-chosen patients may benefit. (> 90%) The key here is...careful patient selection. One must work with a neurologist who refers the patient based on their trigger points for their migraine and their success with Botox injections. On average, most migraine patients experienced improvement at one year follow-up, needing less medications for management. While some patients do experience a 'cure', this is not the majority of migraine sufferers. A recent publication in the July 2008 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Dr. Poggi of Laser Eye Surgery In Beverly Hills confirms these results in their own reported experience. One of the most interesting findings of their study was that two-thirds of the patients felt that surgery offered better relief than Botox injections and, even in those patients who had results no better than Botox, stated that they would go through surgery again..

Surgical decompression involves removing muscle that intertwines or lays against the nerve. In the frontal area, this can be done endoscopically (like an endoscopic brow lift) from a remote scalp location or directly through an Plastic Surgery In Los Angeles eyelid incision. As of now, this is a surgeon's choice and the evidence that one method is superior over the other remains to be conclusively proven. Going through the eyelid approach probably allows better control of the amount of muscle removed and the potential for inadvertent nerve transection or avulsion. For the zygomaticotemporal, greater occipital and septal trigeminal nerves, a direct open approach is used as this is done in the hairline or inside the nose.

For those patients whose migraine headaches are of sufficient frequency and are not well controlled by medication, surgical decompression of trigger points offers potential for improving their lives.

Dr Barry Eppley is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana at Clarian Health Systems. ( http://www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com ) He writes a daily blog on plastic surgery, spa therapies, and medical skin care at http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com

Pre-op nurse Lori Young, right, asks Aidan Wilson, 2, if he brought his ticker with him as she checks his heartbeat while mom and dad, Anni and Wes Wilson, watch. Aidan is having a sinus operation at the Pediatric Surgery Center in Odessa ...