Category: Liposuction
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Mommy Makeover Diaries: What to expect during a consultation
People choose to have cosmetic procedures for many reasons. Maybe they’ve always been unhappy with a feature on their body, or maybe they used to love the way they look and suddenly that changed. The reasons are as unique as the people themselves. For one of our mommies, Rhonda, this procedure is the “icing on…
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Introducing the Mommy Makeover Diaries
While being a mother is one of the greatest joys in life, it is also a hard job—one that takes its toll physically, and mentally. Often mothers find it difficult to put themselves first, preferring instead to spend time, money and energy on their children, or significant others, or their careers. But the old saying…
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An Employee’s Tummy Tuck Journey: The Final Result
Often, the first step to plastic surgery, the consultation, is the most difficult for patients to overcome. Once the procedure has been discussed with a trusted surgeon, planning for the surgery happens pretty quickly. Here, our employee shares her hospital experience and her elation at the final results. By the time my surgery date with…
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An Employee’s Tummy Tuck Journey: Time for the Consultation
Last month, we discussed whether it was easier to make the choice to have a procedure if you worked in the plastic surgery business. After careful consideration, our employee moved on to the next phase of the process, the consultation. Even for an employee who’s been in the business for years, this part caused a…
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Working in the Plastic Surgery Field: Does it Make it Easier to Decide to Have a Procedure?
For typical women, the decision to have plastic surgery is a big one, one that requires plenty of research into board certified surgeons, discussions with friends and family, and self-reflection. For a woman who works in the plastic surgery industry, though, it may seem as the the choice would be easy–but it’s just as consuming…
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If You Want Plastic Surgery, It’s Time to Give Up the Cigarettes
The health benefits of quitting smoking are numerous and well documented. Non-smokers live longer, have less risk of cancer, and have fewer instances of heart and lung disease. Despite these well-known statistics, however, many people continue to smoke–but if you’re seriously considering plastic surgery, quitting is a choice you need to make. Aside from the…
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Body Fat and Infection
Not that surgeons really didn’t know this before but there is now a very good study that directly links the percentage of body fat with the risk of a surgical site infection. Most of the earlier studies used Body Mass Index (BMI) as the measure of weight in looking at surgical site infections which are infections…
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Back Scooping?
You never know what a news agency will pick up. Recently the NYDailyNews.com published an article on Heidi Montag and “back scooping.” “Back Scooping” actually refers to a procedure that we have done for years as part of our liposuction procedures. Several years ago, low hipped fashions came in style for women. Unfortunately, most women’s bodies were…