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What Happens To The Belly Button After A Tummy Tuck?

Patients sometimes seem confused about what happens to the belly button after a full or standard tummy tuck. The fate of the belly button depends on the type of tummy tuck performed. Some tummy tucks don’t impact the belly button, while others require more intensive work. In this post, we’ll explain what you can expect. Belly Button After Mini Tummy Tuck In a mini tummy tuck, a wedge of skin is taken out of the lower abdomen. The belly button remains in place, it may be pulled a little but stays for the most part as it started. Belly Button… Read More

How Small Can A Breast Reduction Go?

Before discussing how small a breast reduction can go, I first want to comment on breast reduction surgery itself. Breast reduction is perhaps one of the most gratifying operations that I perform for my patients. It is fascinating to me how long people wait before they choose to go ahead with it. Obviously, I know how scary it can be to consider any surgery, yet, breast reduction can be life-changing. I can never promise to resolve back, neck or shoulder pain in a patient through breast reduction, but I cannot tell you how many people have improved their symptoms or… Read More

Brachioplasty Or Arm Liposuction?

Brachioplasty or arm liposuction, which is right for you? And what do you need to consider?

Tummy Tuck Troubles? How We Keep Patients Happy

A tummy tuck requires an aesthetic eye, aesthetic surgical judgment, but perhaps most importantly, clear and common sense communication.

Where Are The Thigh Lifts?

There are tons of liposuctions, tummy tucks, facelifts, rhinoplasties, and more. But the thigh lifts are often few and far between. Why is that?

Tummy Tuck vs Liposuction: Which is right for me?

Patients are often confused about the difference between a tummy tuck and liposuction. Both improve the appearance of the abdomen, but which is right for you?

A Patient’s Guide To: After A Breast Reduction

Whether you’re planning to get the surgery or you’re still on the fence, you’ll need to know what to expect after a breast reduction.

A Patient’s Guide To Breast Implants

There are so many breast implant options available and factors to consider so this blog aims to provide any potential patients with a full guide to breast implants.

How To Achieve A Natural Breast Augmentation

The majority of women having breast enhancement surgery today are asking for a natural result as opposed to a decade ago when bigger was in. But how is a natural look achieved?

Everything You Need To Know About Mommy Makeover Recovery

In this post, we explain everything potential patients need to know about recovering from a mommy makeover, including post procedure details, instructions and tips.

A Patient’s Guide To: Tummy Tuck Recovery

This blog aims to provide patients with a complete guide on recovering from a tummy tuck, including tips and aftercare details.

Belly Button After Tummy Tuck: Will it Always Look Like This?

Learn more about the role of the belly button in a tummy tuck.

A Closer Look at Cosmetic Surgery Abroad

Whether it is Colombia, Mexico, or the Dominican Republic, traveling across borders for surgery is known as “medical tourism”. As a practising physician and surgeon, I just don’t get it. 

Breast Lift vs Implants: Pros and Cons of Both Procedures

It is common for me to see patients who are not sure whether they need a breast lift or a breast implant, or perhaps both. In fact, many do not truly understand the differences between the two.

Fleur De Lis Tummy Tuck: Anatomy of a Procedure

A fleur de lis tummy tuck is a type of plastic surgery you may never have heard of. It may be something you will never need, but for a large percentage of my patients, particularly patients who have lost a great deal of weight, it is at least something that they should be made aware of. The usual tummy tuck pulls lax abdominal skin downwards. This is fine for the average postpartum mom who has gone up and down in weight with pregnancy. But we are lucky that this works for most patients because it is not how weight loss… Read More

Instagram’s New Plastic Surgery Policy: A Plastic Surgeon’s Take

Instagram recently announced that age restrictions would now apply to posts related to diet and cosmetic surgery. Find out more about this here.

Capsular Contracture: All You Need to Know

Capsular contracture is a complication that can affect women after breast augmentation or reconstruction surgery. Numbers will vary from study to study, but overall it may affect as many as one in ten patients.

Liposuction: Nothing To Do With Fat, Everything to Do With Skin

In any surgical procedure, setting realistic expectations for the patient is vital. Here is what liposuction does and doesn’t do for you.

Achieving Your New Year’s Resolution: Diet, Exercise and Liposuction

Given the holiday months are often about vacation, rest, and relaxation, most people find it hard to keep up with the workout routine. Having two holidays back to back that result in people eating a lot of eating and sweets it is no wonder why losing weight is always on top of the resolution list year after year. The fact of the matter is that if we don’t see results quickly with diet and exercise we tend to give up and wait till next year. The year passes, and all of a sudden it’s a new decade with no discernable weight loss… Read More

Misapplied Botox: Dispelling the Rumors

Botox procedures seem to be subject to an unusually large number of myths and rumors, some untrue while others are outlandish.