Archive for April, 2015
The Ten Biggest Lies in Plastic Surgery – Lie #5
The ‘week-end facelift’ or ‘lunchtime facelift’ are simply gimmicks to get you in the office. You find out that it’s going to take longer than they implied and then the real recovery is even longer again. The facelift procedure that just cut out a little skin was outdated 30 years ago. Anyone who performs this […]
The Ten Biggest Lies in Plastic Surgery: Lie #4
Several manufacturers of aesthetic equipment have come out with machines designed to eliminate fat without surgery and claim that the fat disappears ‘naturally.’ The human body had four ways to eliminate waste. We exhale gases such as carbon dioxide; we cannot breathe out fat. We can sweat out water and salt; we cannot sweat out […]
The Ten Biggest Lies in Plastic Surgery: Lie #3
One of the risks of breast augmentation surgery is capsular contracture. This happens when the scar tissue that forms around the implants either becomes or shrinks so that it compresses the implants, making them hard. The idea behind massaging your breasts is to keep the scar capsule larger than the implants so that the capsule […]