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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I just had to blog (still new at this) about the show today. It was one of those times when I got to see my patient for the first time since surgery, live, right in front of our studio audience. It is both exciting and terrifying. It's like Forrest Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates ..." A few things can go wrong after we apply the bandage and before we see our...

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We just aired a segment about the Buccal (pronounced: buckle) Fat Procedure on Friday's show. I have been doing the procedure since the early '90s. At the time, my practice was in New York City, and the models came in one after another. The "Waif Look" was in at the time. The only problem for these young women was to look thin enough in the face, their bodies had to become too thin. Being too thin...

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If you have clicked on my blog, it means you have seen our show The Doctors. The other three docs and I are very pleased you have visited our site. It just goes to show that our audience is hungry — no starving — for the real deal in medical information. There are a lot of reasons for that. Today's world is a combination of too much and not enough information! Doctors sometimes feel resistant...

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