Filler is a great option to fill out the apples of your cheeks, which can become gaunt with weight loss or overtime with aging. Flatness in that area can also be a genetic trait, but we all agree that volume makes us look younger. The apples of your cheeks are located between the cheekbone and …
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Filler can be used to temporarily lift the corners of a downturned mouth by providing support to the lip corners. If there is also sagging of the skin in that area, a better way to accomplish this is through a surgical procedure called a corner lip lift where we make an incision at the corners …
Filler is a great non-invasive way to smooth out a pointy chin. It works quite well to augment the chin and give you a more attractive profile. A well-projected chin shows strength in a male face and gives a woman that much-coveted snatched jawline as depicted on many Instagram posts. I often say, in my …
The length of time that bruising and swelling lasts after a nose job varies. Since rhinoplasty involves cutting inside the nose to adjust its infrastructure, it causes minor trauma. This trauma is what causes bruising and swelling. To create a smaller and more defined nose, we cut the cartilages and sometimes some bone, and in …
The time it takes to recover from rhinoplasty surgery depends on the individual patient. I can give you some parameters that will help you determine where you fall in the range of recovery times. How painful is this rhinoplasty recovery? Rhinoplasty is not one of the more painful surgeries. Most of my patients stop taking …
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A dorsal hump nose can be genetic or can be caused by trauma to the nose. Having a straight and aquiline profile is something most people desire, which is what causes many patients to seek rhinoplasty to remove the hump. What causes the hump? If you look at your parents and one or both have …
Lip fillers should be injected into the red part of the lip, which includes the vermillion border. This is the border around our lips between the white skin and red lips. Injecting there perks up the lips and defines them. Properly placed filler should not migrate to outside this border and should not create an …
There are a few different solutions for getting rid of hooded eyelids. The most effective is surgery to lift the brow. Some people just naturally have hooded eyelids while for others it’s caused by aging. Many patients come in because they want to look more refreshed and feel their hooded eyes make them look tired …
Botox can be used around the mouth to diminish wrinkling and make that area look more youthful. Most people come in because their mouth and perioral area looks aged due to thinning lips and/or for women the appearance of vertical radial lines around the mouth. Some people call these lines smokers’ lines, but they can …
A primary rhinoplasty takes about an hour to complete. If it’s a revision rhinoplasty, it can take about an hour and a half to two hours, due to having to harvest some cartilage from the rib or elsewhere. Rhinoplasty is a superficial surgery where we sculpt the bone and the cartilage in the nose to …