Category: Plastic Surgeon
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Mommy Makeover Diaries: Michelle’s “After” Story
After waiting for years to have her procedure (and three kids later), Michelle is finally through and on the road to recovery. While her first couple of nights were a little rough (pain medication made her groggy, and she didn’t want to do much), every day got a little better after that. She got up,…
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Labiaplasty: What is it, and why is it suddenly trendy?
Here at St. Louis Cosmetic Surgery, we notice that trends in plastic surgery often come and go, but one trend in particular has a lot of women (quietly) asking the question: can I change how I look down there? There is no question that labiaplasty, the surgical improvement of female labia, is quickly becoming a…
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Mommy Makeover Diaries: The Agonizing Wait
My mommy partner-in-crime, Michelle, is through the other side: she’s officially three weeks past her surgery. She came into the office yesterday for a follow-up visit, and while she was here we took some photos for this blog and chatted a bit about her whole surgical experience, so I can write it up later. She…
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After an unhappy experience elsewhere, can breast augmentations be fixed?
At St. Louis Cosmetic Surgery, we are often asked to perform revisions on breast augmentations done elsewhere. Patients may desire a revision for many reasons, and our goal is to help each one achieve the results they wanted from the very beginning. Many women come in wanting a revision due to unhappiness with the size…
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Saying “No” is the Hardest Thing to Do and It Can “Bite You” Too!
Every parent knows the feeling. You would really like to say “Yes”; it would be easier but you know it is just not the right thing to do. You say “No” and deal with the backlash hoping that at some point later in their lives your child will understand that they are better for it.…
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Lifestyle Lift, Recently Fined
According to ABC News, Lifestyle Lift, a plastic surgery franchise was recently fined $300,000 in New York State by Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General. Apparently they were using employees to post fake reviews on line at different websites and message boards to promote their company. They advertise a one hour facelift under local anesthesia. The cost…
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Is It Safe to get “Ship-Shape” When You’re on a Ship?
Cruise lines seem to have some things in common with plastic surgeons. They used to be considered a luxury for only the very rich but now are accessible for almost every economic category. Cosmetic plastic surgery used to be thought of as only for the very rich but now is accessible and available for most…
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Pain Pumps
The plastic surgeons at St. Louis Cosmetic Surgery have been using pain pumps in certain types of surgical procedures for almost 8 years to provide our patients with optimal pain management during their recovery after surgery. We started doing so after reading studies in the orthopedic medical literature that demonstrated that patients who had undergone…