Nose Job with a Filler!
If you’ve been in an accident, broken your nose and now have a “scoop” or divot, you may be looking to get a nose job. Until now, any changes to your nose required nose surgery – technically called a rhinoplasty. But with the advent of fillers like Belotero, Juvederm or Restylane, you can get your […]
Massive Weight Loss in San Francisco
Today, I had the pleasure of discussing Body Contouring with a group of patients that have undergone or will undergo surgery to allow for massive weight loss. We met at the James Flood Building on Market Street in San Francisco on a beautiful Saturday morning. These patients attended because they wanted to know what they […]
Fillers Don’t Have to Hurt!
I attended a lecture this evening for the dermatologists and plastic surgeons in the area on the topic of fillers. Fillers, as you may or may not know, are injections used to enhance a variety of areas in the face that contribute to the appearance of facial aging. Fillers were originally used to just fill […]
Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons Can Learn a Lot from Hair Salons!
At first glance, you may think that cosmetic plastic surgeons and hair salons are only related in that both are businesses dedicated to beauty but when it comes to customer outreach, hair salons “got it going on!” Customer Relationship Management or CRM is a growing industry. Salesforce.com is a company most responsible for making CRM […]
Split Earlobe Repair
Did your nephew pull your earring through your earlobe?! Do you wear dangling earrings so much so that it has stretched the piercing too large? Well, it doesn’t have to be a permanent problem. A split earlobe repair is the answer. While most men wouldn’t understand the difficulty of finding a pierced earring that doesn’t […]
Lip Implants vs Lip Fillers
If you’re considering “plumping” up your lips, you now have a choice in how you do this. I previously wrote about lip injections with Juvederm or similar type of filler. As I mentioned in that post, the benefits of lip injections is lower cost and the results are temporary if you’re not happy. But the downside […]
The Permanent Smile
Below is a fascinating technique (note: fascinating does not suggest good or bad, morally justifiable or reprehensible…it just means, well, fascinating) to turn up the corners of the mouth if someone has a naturally downturned smile and thus, give them a permanent smile. If you have a naturally downturned mouth, it could give other the […]
Price Transparency: Hiding Behind the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
For those of you that read this blog, you know by now that BuildMyBod, the host of this blog, represents price transparency in the world of cosmetic surgery. Want to know how much cosmetic surgery will cost before going in for a lengthy consultation with your plastic surgeon? You come to BuildMyBod to find your […]
Juvederm Voluma – The Latest Volumizer!
If you’re a man or woman that has noticed reduced volume in the parentheses lines of the face or dark circles under the eyes, you may want to read this. If you’ve ever had a filler such as Juvederm, Belotero, Restylane or Radiesse, you may also want to read this. Allergan, the makers of Juvederm […]
Portrait of a Cardiac Pioneer
The NY Times recently published a very interesting article about Dr. Helen Taussig and her infamous portrait…well maybe not infamous, because until now, I don’t think anyone was aware of the portrait commissioned by the doctors that worked and studied under her. Fifty years ago, Jamie Wyeth, son of the famous artist Andrew Wyeth, painted […]
Trending: Zookeepers Performing Cosmetic Surgery on Zoo Animals?!
I write articles for my blog about three times a week and luckily, so far, I always find inspiration from a patient I’ve met or an article I’ve read. And this morning was no different. I was reading through my email and came across an e-newsletter that contained various articles related to my field – […]
Foreign Doctors Are Good People Like You and Me!
As a recent NY Times article points out, there are many doctors in this country that could help alleviate the current primary care doctor shortage but because they were trained in a foreign country, their credentials aren’t universally accepted by state medical boards in the US and they may be unable to pass the licensing […]