Prepare your body for summer!Summer is almost here, and most of us could use a body tune-up. I have been doing some things myself, so I thought of 10 things that anyone can do to get a beach-ready body.10. Eat cookies. My fellow doctors on the show and I tried the Smart for Life Cookie Diet. You eat a special cookie that sort of grows larger in your stomach and makes you feel full. So...

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Hello Everyone! One thing that does not come up very often on The Doctors is problems with hands. One thing that a lot of people don't know about me is that I am a hand surgeon as well as a plastic surgeon. In fact, lots of plastic surgeons are! So when it comes to the anatomy, surgery, and aging of the hand, I know what I am talking about. Hands are obviously very functional, but...

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Hello Blogophiles!That's someone who likes blogging - as do I, when time allows! We did a show where we used hidden cameras and actors to stage a beauty treatment sting to see just how many shortcuts people take when they think no one is looking! The show was in good fun, but we wanted to point out the dangers of unlicensed people doing skin treatments. Scary!We all know that physicians and surgeons go through years...

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Greetings! In plastic surgery, many surgeons make up new names for old operations. It can be an attempt at marketing or at making the old seem new. Recently, I was asked what we call it when we do liposuction on the anterior (which means "front") axillary (armpit) liposuction. Within the office we call it just that, anterior axillary liposuction. But the public does not know what we mean by that and it occurred to me...

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Hey Blogophiles! We just finished a show about brides-to-be and I performed (onstage - always adds to the pressure) a Mona Lisa Smile procedure. Named after the look of the model in the iconic painting, the Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable images of all time. It speaks of quiet contentment, of mysterious happiness. People have been debating "What was she thinking about?" ever since the paint dried. Patients ask for this look...

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Wow, Bloggers!I blogged awhile back about spider veins and possible treatments, and our Web site lit up! It got me thinking about other things we do in medicine for leg veins. Varicose veins popped (not literally!) to mind.  Right about that time, we had Dr. Joseph Hewitt, an interventional radiologist, on our show. He performed the VenaCure procedure. This new, endovenous (that means from inside the vein) laser sends pulses from inside the vein wall...

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Hi Everyone! My loyal staff told me I haven't shared in a while, but my posts are still popular. I do miss hearing what you have to say about what I have to say, so, here goes!  We did a show about acne of the buttocks and the term Butt-ne was introduced.  Over the years, I have encountered many patients with this problem. Sometimes they had just accepted the outbreaks as a fact about themselves...

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Hello Fellow Bloggers! One of the fun things about working on The Doctors is the information exchange. I know you might think it's about us giving the information and you receiving it, but we doctors are learning every week, too! Plastic surgeon Dr. Bahman Guyuron was on the show today and shared that he noticed that people who had forehead lifts, who coincidentally suffered from migraines, experienced improvement of their migraine symptoms post-surgery. He began...

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We’ve been talking about fat a lot recently, and today we introduced the topic of good fat (brown fat) and bad fat. Typical fat that you see me liposuctioning out is yellow/white, but brown fat is different. Brown fat is darker because of higher levels of dark colored mitochondria, which are the engines that sustain cell activity and energy. As babies, we have more brown fat because we need the increased-energy-burning cells it has in...

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Hello everyone,A good butt is not a fashion flash in the pan. Just watch some old movies and notice the fitted skirts in the '40s, the cowboys in jeans in the '50s, spandex in the '70s and so on. However, obtaining what nature didn't give you is a relatively new thing and today, you don't have to live with a flat backside. Just like most things we do in plastic surgery, we can create what...

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Hi Everyone,   When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. But you cannot argue with results. Inches are inches, and the Zerona removes inches, more than four inches on the "test" case we did for The Doctors. I have to say, I didn't believe it at first either. The Zerona laser simply shines a laser light upon the areas where the fat is to be reduced. The laser biochemically creates a...

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Hello Doc-watchers,I was pretty impressed with the E-Matrix skin care system that our friend from San Diego, Tess Mauricio, demonstrated on our show. It is a way of treating dark spots on dark individuals by using new technology that is NOT A LASER. Don't get me wrong, lasers are great -- I use them every day. But treating darker skin has always been a problem for lasers because lasers like to hone in on color...

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Hi Bloggers, Many people don’t know very much about the thyroid, a small but very powerful gland that affects the entire body. We call the thyroid the Master Gland because it controls the metabolism of the entire body. I started my medical career as an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) surgeon, so I know the thyroid quite well, and I have operated on people’s thyroids many times and for many reasons. When it comes to...

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Hello Everyone, Wow, someone hand me a beach towel! I just finished doing water-assisted liposuction and are my socks soggy!! I’m joking, of course. I’m kidding about the wet socks, but not the fact that there is such a thing as water-assisted liposuction. It's the newest thing, and it really works. We used the BodyJet system, which is promoted as the gentler way to do liposuction. Having used it, I must agree. Compared to traditional...

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Hi Blog-o-philes,I am running out of salutation ideas! People always ask me, "What are some home remedies for crow’s feet?" While I am in the business of fixing this sort of thing, there are certainly some preventative measures you can take. Crow’s feet are created by the flexion of the orbicularis oculi muscle, which is a circular, sphincter-like muscle that surrounds the eye. the muscle protects the eye from brightness and physical contact. For example,...

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Hello Fellow Bloggers, I have decades of experience in plastic surgery.One of the nice things about being in this specialty that long is seeing things come and go, rise and fall, and come in and out of vogue. One change in plastic surgery is, I think, here to stay: the preservation and restoration of facial volume for a younger, healthier and more youthful look.   Enter: the VolumaLift. This term applies to using facial fillers to...

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Hello Blog-o-sphere,Pectoral implants have been getting more attention lately, but the procedure is not often discussed and is nearly absent on plastic surgery Web sites. Many men choose the pectoral implant option, just as many women choose breast implants. A good chest makes men look better 24/7 - with clothes, without clothes and everything in between. Sure, with a dedicated workout and diet program, men can develop similar results, but not everyone wants to dedicate...

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Hello blog readers and writers! My three fellow doctors and I love doing things live in the studio whenever possible. That's why we did a non- surgical chin augmentation with Radiesse (TM) in this show. See the procedure here! It adds a measure of fun to hear and see a live audience response to both the procedure happening and what we call the "reveal".  Most of the time our patient and audience are seeing the...

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Hi everyone,  We have done lips on the show before, but we broke new ground by doing a procedure with the new Perma Facial implants by SurgiSil. Lip augmentation is one of the most common plastic surgery procedures. Let's face it: fuller, healthier, younger lips have been in style since Marilyn Monroe and are not going out of style anytime soon. We do the procedure on men and women alike, but the temporary results of...

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Hello everyone,I'd like to share my take on StomaphyX surgery: It is the next logical step in the progression of GI tract alteration. Procedures get less invasive and more direct as time goes by, and here is how gastric surgeries have developed:Thirty years ago, gastric bypass for health reasons required an open laparotomy, which is a cut from stem to stern, and the stomach and small intestine were altered. The problem was that the surgery...

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