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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Hello Everyone! We mentioned cankles on the show the today and I thought both the term and the procedure could use some further explanation. We plastic surgeons have been doing liposuction on just about all parts of the body since the late seventies. During those years, the surgery has gone through many incarnations, and it's gotten better and better. Now we use smaller and smaller instruments that create less trauma and less recovery time. These...

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Hello all, I just finished an Intraceutical Oxygen Facial on Valerie Bertinelli.  What a sweet woman she is, so positive and enthusiastic – a real "glass-is-half-full" kind of person. I have my share of celebrity clients, and Valerie’s treatment is fairly typical. These on-camera stars need fast results, no down time and a predictable improvement. The oxygen facial is one of the quick turn-around procedures they love. We often combine this therapy with facial acid...

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Hello Friends,There is a lot of interest in the non-surgical treatment for spider veins. In days past, surgery was the only option for larger veins. Smaller veins were electrocuted by hyfrecation. A needle was placed in the vein and electrified for a moment, and the current would shoot down the vein for about one centimeter and replace the vein with scar.Later, sclerotherapy came along, which is the injection of a solution such as hypertonic saline,...

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Hello Mike,I have to resist the impulse to practice medicine over the Internet.  I cannot dispense individual advice directly - especially because I haven’t examined you in person, collected a complete medical history, and so on. However, in general, a “suck tuck” will work if skin elasticity is still satisfactory. A plastic surgeon can only determine that by seeing you. You’ll be happy to hear that I have done it on a few of my...

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Hello Fellow Bloggers…   One of the fun things about being one of "The Doctors" is getting to work with other specialists in plastic surgery.  Think about it: Most surgeons just do their thing, their way.  There isn't much sharing of information or techniques between colleagues because let's face it; we are in competition with one another.   But plastic surgery is a big specialty. There are many procedures within my own specialty that I don't...

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Hello Fellow Bloggers.   We just did a show that included a very pretty lady with breathing problems.  As is always the case, there is a lot of information and important points that don't make it on the air due to time constraints.  I love doing this show because I learn so much from my fellow doctors, but sometimes I wish I could say or show more about things in my "wheelhouse" like noses.  ...

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