Category Archives: Plastic Surgery
What Should You Expect After Having Breast Reconstruction?
Breast reconstruction can help many patients feel more confident about themselves, along with improving the balance and proportions of their bodies. While many patients look forward to their results, they also wonder what the recovery phase will be like after having breast reconstruction surgery and how it may be similar or different to what happens
Which Cosmetic Procedures Should You Have This Spring?
As most surgical and even many non-invasive procedures don’t reveal their results right away, it can take at least a few weeks before a patient sees the full results of their treatment. In most cases, a procedure performed in the springtime means you’ll feel confident about your look by the time summer is here again.
5 Tips for Fixing Your Posture After Plastic Surgery
Ever wondered why everyone stresses the importance of “sitting up straight?” From an early age, parents and teachers tell us that keeping our body in proper alignment is important. Turns out, they’re actually right. Great posture not only makes you look several pounds lighter, creates the illusion of your abs being more sculpted, helps you
What Are the Best Implant Positions for Breast Augmentation?
When you’re having breast augmentation with implants, expect to have numerous discussions with your surgeon about what size, fillings, textures, placements, and incision types will be most suitable for you depending on many factors. Your anatomy, body shape, lifestyle, and aesthetic taste will all be taken into account when making these decisions. Although most people
Modern Tumescent Liposuction: A Cornerstone of Body Contouring
Body contouring in plastic surgery, also known as body sculpting, refers to procedures that are designed to smooth, shape, and get rid of unwanted fat from isolated areas to transform a patient’s body. Although minimally invasive options are available, surgically removing unwanted fat cells from specific areas—such as the lower stomach, hips, and thighs—still produces
Breast Reduction: Can Taking Some Weight From Your Bust Also Take Away Your Back Pain?
When your body alignment and center of gravity change as a result of the strain of developing very large breasts, the shift can lead to chronic discomfort. Pain in the shoulders, upper back, and neck is common among women who have breasts that are size DD or larger, as are other symptoms, such as bra
3 Ways to Care for Your Skin after a Facelift
It takes a while for your face to feel completely normal again after you’ve had a facelift. It’s common to feel a change in texture, numbness, tingling, and tightness of the skin around your incisions—especially in the early stage of recovery. Since you’ll initially have a lot of swelling and bruising from the procedure, it
How to Choose the Right Placement for Breast Implants
Before you make any final decisions about breast implants in St. Louis, there are various factors to take into consideration, such as implant filler material, size, and profile, as well as the type of incisions you’ll have. Many people don’t realize that there are different breast implant placement options available to choose from, including the
Double Chin Reduction Procedure FAQs
Body insecurities: Just about everyone has them—or at least one. Double chins might be otherwise inoffensive pockets of fat that pose no health risk, but if you spend a lot of time looking in the mirror, dread taking selfies, or have endured casual comments about the condition in front of others, the look of “submental
Does Liposuction Leave Scars?
Any form of damage to the skin can produce scars, inflammation, and pigmentation changes, and liposuction is no exception. After an injury—including incisions made during surgery—a natural, biological process kicks off to repair the wounds in the skin by filling them with collagen and fibrous tissue. Resulting scars are inevitable with most types of plastic
