Are you like most? Do you love to look at all the beauty ads in magazines. We all want to use that shampoo and get thick shiny hair just like the model that has never used the product in her life. Or have my wrinkles fade away in 30 days from a moisturizer made mostly …
Skin Care Products must haves Wow, between all the commercials, magazine advertisements & make up counters, it's difficult to know what skin care products are going to be the best product for me. We are all different but there are 3 main essential products that will help promote healthy, younger skin. 1. Physician Strength Retinol: This …
The lead story published in USA Today on 9/14/11 dramatically highlights the risks and dangers associated with cosmetic procedures being performed by persons not properly qualified to do so. Written by Jayne O'Donnell, it detailed the lack of oversight on who is performing cosmetic surgery in America, and the often amazing lack of training by …
This time of year, one of the most commonly asked breast augmentation questions we get at our St. Louis plastic surgery practice is when is it safe to get back into a swimming pool or go to the beach after getting breast implants? How soon can you swim after breast surgery? Although swimming should be …
Our mini facelift procedure is a true facelift quite similar to a full facelift, but less invasive, with a faster recover and without the need for General Anesthesia. The mini facelift procedure usually can be performed in 2 hours under local anesthetic without the need, and added risk, of General anesthetic. Most procedures discussed on …
We have all heard it. “This FDA Approved treatment….” But what does “FDA Approved” really mean? Are all FDA Approvals the same or is there a difference between them? First, there are big differences amongst the types of FDA Approvals. There are really two types of FDA Approvals for medical devices. There is the 501(k) …
There is a lot of buzz in the plastic surgery world about the new ABC show, “Bridalplasty”, where the brides-to-be compete to have plastic surgery procedures performed on themselves before the big day. While it appears that most of the contestants will get some of their desired procedures done, only the winner gets all of …
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. …
Ok, first I will admit, this is a very biased blog report but then again, it should be since we-the surgeons of St. Louis Cosmetic Surgery- have been using pre-operative sizing before breast augmentation for over ten years and this study just told us what we already knew. Patients who undergo pre-operative sizing before breast …
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 …