Nose
What is a nose lift?
Nose Lift, also known as rhinoplasty, is a type of cosmetic surgery that is used to improve the appearance of a person's nose. It is also frequently called a "nose job." This is done singly or in combination with other procedures like alar base trimming.
What is Alar Base Trimming?
It is a surgery of the nose that narrows the wide flaring and large opening of the nasal nostrils.
What are the benefits one could get from these procedures?
This is done for cosmetic reasons- to improve the shape of the nasal tip, for instance. The purpose of this procedure is to enhance your looks and to maintain or improve your ability to breathe through your nose. If you believe the tip of your nose is too rounded or flat, the fullness can be reduced by removing a cartilage from the inside of the nose. Projection can be extended by using cartilage from the ear or nasal septum grafted to the nose tip. Nasal tip surgery allows you to have a narrower nose with a better defined tip.
Chin
What is chin augmentation?
Chin augmentation using surgical implants can modify the underlying structure of the face, providing better balance to the facial features. Chin implants are made in various shapes and sizes and they are made out of both solid and semi-solid materials.
What are the benefits one could get from these procedures?
Frequently, these implants will aid to endow with a more harmonious symmetry to your face and features so that you feel better about the way you look. Also, chin implants may help toughen a jaw line or bring the chin or cheekbones into balance with the rest of the face.
Facial implants can enhance your appearance and bolster your self esteem. If you are looking for improvement, not perfection, in your appearance and are realistic in your expectations, you may find that a chin implant is the right choice for you.
What is lip dimple/ cheek dimple surgery?
The surgical procedure used to create dimples involves simulating the natural way a dimple is formed, by forming a connection between the skin and the cheek muscle, such that when the muscle contracts, it pulls the skin inwards to form a dimple.
Eyes
What is an eye bag removal?
The eyes can make people age more than any other feature they possess. As people get older, many develop lower eye bags and hooding of the upper eyelid and this can then make them look tired and old. Blepharoplasty (also known as eye bag removal) is a cosmetic plastic surgical procedure that aims to reshape the upper eyelid or lower eyelid through the removal and/or relocating of excess tissue as well as by reinforcement of proximate muscles and tendons.
What are the benefits one could get from these procedures?
Blepharoplasty is done to improve the appearance of drooping upper eyelids and puffy lower "bags". When the upper eyelid changes are severe, blepharoplasty may sometimes be carried out to unblock the field of vision impaired by overhanging skin. Blepharoplasty can help to address these problems and help to restore a more youthful and alert appearance.
Face
What is a face lift, neck lift, and temporal lift?
A face lift, also called rhytidectomy, smoothes the loose skin on the face and neck, this tightens underlying tissue and can eliminate excess fat. This procedure will make your face appear firmer and fresher.
A temporal lift, also known as the forehead lift, is a surgical procedure to correct drooping of the forehead skin, eyebrows, and upper eyelids.
What are the benefits one could get from these procedures?
The face and the neck are the parts of the body which are most exposed to the outside elements and therefore are most affected by the ageing process. Wrinkles, lines and loose skin on the face and neck are a result of time and possibly too much exposure to the sun. For those who still feel young at heart, a face and neck lift can reinstate a more rested and youthful look.
In the temporal lift procedure, the process removes or alters the muscles and skin that cause such evident signs of aging as baggy eyebrows, "hooding" eyelids, forehead creases, and frown lines.
Lips
What are Perlane and Restilane?
Perlane and Restilane are dermal fillers which are composed of a crystal clear gel which smooth wrinkles and folds and give contours, and provide lip augmentation. Perlane and Restilane are not extracted from animals and they are perfectly safe to use instantly without pre-testing.
What are Perlane and Retsilane for?
Perlane is used for shaping facial contours, such as cheeks and chin, correcting deep folds, and for volume augmentation of the lips, it is intended for shaping the contours of the face, for the correction of deeper folds and for lip enhancement.
Restilane is used for wrinkle correction and lip enhancements and also for correcting thin superficial lines.
What is Dermative?
DermaLive is a new form of hyaluric gel thick enough to enhance cheekbones, fill out deep nose-to-mouth lines and inverted scars or make a weak chin look more pronounced.
What is the purpose of Dermative?
Dermalive is recommended to fill deep wrinkles such as deep smile lines, deep creases around the nose and mouth, frown creases, lip outlines, and/or depressed scars. It is a long-term wrinkle reduction product designed to fill wrinkles and skin defects.
What is lip augmentation?
Due to age and other factors, many people have lost volume in their lips, leaving them aged and wrinkled. Lip augmentation can augment or refurbish afuller shape to your lips and help you get fuller, more luscious lips.
What is lip augmentation for?
Because of lip augmentation, one can achieve a more sensuous look.Lip augmentation could provide more balance to facial features, restore lost volume and shape and boost more their self-confidence in their appearance.
What is lip fat transplant?
Fat transfer, also known as fat grafting or fat injections, is a type of soft tissue filler that may be used to enhance the lips or to fill in lines and creases that may develop as we age and the effects of gravity, smiling, chewing, and squinting. Fat is one of several selections you have to treat these conditions.
What is a heart-shaped Lip Surgery?
Collagen Replacement Therapy is used to define the border of the lip, especially the heart-shaped area of the top lip called the "Cupid's Bow," so the lip has a fashionable, well-defined look. It's a subtle, more natural look than the prominent, plump lips of high fashion models in the late '80s.
Breast
What is Augmentation Mammoplasty?
Breast augmentation, also known as breast enhancement or augmentation mammoplasty, is a type of cosmetic surgery designed to increase size and improve the shape of a woman’s bust. Saline or silicone gel implants are inserted behind each breast, increasing a woman’s breast size.
What is Augmentation Mammoplasty for?
Some women may choose to have breast enhancement surgery after pregnancy to restore volume to their breasts. Women who have undergone mastectomy, in which one or both breasts are removed because of breast cancer, may choose to have breast augmentation to restore a natural appearance. Since the advent of breast augmentation techniques, millions of women have undergone breast enhancement. Augmentation mammoplasty is now one of the most commonly performed cosmetic surgery procedures.
What is a breast lift?
Breast Lift surgery is a group of operations designed to improve breast ptosis ("Droop"). Any of these may or may not be performed with breast augmentation to also improve volume and breast shape.
What is a breast lift for?
A breast lift can be performed at any age, but plastic surgeons usually recommend waiting until breast development has stopped. Pregnancy and breast-feeding may have significant and unpredictable effects on the size and shape of your breasts. Nevertheless, many women decide to undergo breast lift surgery before having children and feel that they can address any subsequent changes later. Since the milk ducts and nipples are left intact, breast lift surgery usually will not affect your ability to breast-feed.
Hair
What is Micro Hair Transplantation?
By a certain stage in the life cycle, a considerable number of people are affected by hair loss, much of which is inherited. Micro-hair transplantation is a state-of-the-art hair transplantation procedure that has replaced "plugs" or larger grafts of hair. Transplantation is a process that needs hundreds of micro-grafts, each of which will hold from one to three hairs mini-grafted from a donor site on the side or back of the head. They are arbitrarily implanted in the bald (or thinning) area so that they will grow in a natural pattern and create an untraceable outcome.
What are the benefits one could get from these procedures?
It restores a natural, more youthful and spirited look, with potentially positive psychological effects, such as a boost in ones confidence. The procedure is less expensive than other hair-loss treatments, when factored over time. The procedure is permanent and once the transplant procedures are finished, there is no need for further surgery.
Skin
What is Skin Peeling?
Skin peeling involves an application of a chemical solution to sun-damaged, unevenly pigmented, and finely wrinkled facial areas. Chemical peels vary according to their specific ingredients and their strength. Depth of peeling action may also depend on factors such as how long solutions remain on the skin and whether they are lightly applied, or more heavily or vigorously applied.
Light Peels
Light peels are often called "lunch hour" peels because they can be done quickly and the recovery time is very short. The chemicals used in these procedures lightly peel the skin, which quickly results in skin that is brighter and smoother. Light peels are often done repeatedly over time because the results are not as dramatic and long lasting as deep peels.
Medium Peels
Medium Peel is used to treat moderate sun damage, fine lines and weathered skin. To achieve the best results, medium peels are usually performed two or more times over a span of weeks or months.
What is progressive light to medium skin peeling do for the skin?
The procedure is meant to diminish imperfections by peeling away the skin’s top layers. It has proven to be a very popular non surgical cosmetic procedure.
What is the Fat transplant procedure?
Autologous fat (ones own fat) transfer is today's number one filling agent for loss of volume and creases on your hands. Fat injections, also called fat transfer or fat transplantation, can correct skin defects such as especially deep facial wrinkles and furrows by using your body's own fat cells. The injections can also recontour your hands. Fat transfer is becoming a popular alternative to injections of synthetic materials such as collagen. Many people dislike the idea of having a foreign substance in their bodies. Plus, fat injections are safer—there is no risk of rejection or allergic reactions, since you are using your body's own cells.
What does fat transplant for aging hands do?
As we age the appearance of creases on our face and arms and hands are inevitable. Even though these creases are part of the normal ageing process and there is nothing we can do to stop it, we can fill out the creases with fat, thus making them decrease or appear less prominent. Since it is the patient's own fat there is no risk of rejection and no possibility of allergic reaction. This procedure is mainly used to produce a more youthful look and for reshaping of the face, hands and other body contours.
Liposuction
What is liposuction?
Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty ("fat modeling") or suction lipectomy ("suction-assisted fat removal") is a cosmetic surgery
operation which removes fat from many different parts of the human body. Areas affected can range from the face, abdomen, thighs,buttocks, neck, arms and elsewhere.
What is liposuction for?
While exercise and dieting may be useful for losing unwanted weight and fat, some fat deposits may not respond to efforts at weight loss. Applying liposuction techniques may be an option in these situations. Liposuction is not a low-effort substitute to exercise and diet. It is a form of body contouring and as oppose from the notion, it is not a weight loss method.
What is liposculpture?
Liposculpture is a refined technique developed from liposuction and it is for both men and women that reduce fat deposits in those areas which do not react well to diet and exercise.
What does liposuction do for the body?
The procedure is meant to diminish imperfections by peeling away the skin’s top layers. It has proven to be a very popular non surgical cosmetic procedure.
What is the Liposculpture procedure?
Liposculpture is a contouring procedure designed specifically to deal with defiant fatty lumps. The areas that are commonly treated are the hips, outer thighs, and abdomen. It is also usually used on areas that entail superior precision, such as the face, neck, arms, calves and ankles.
What is abdominoplasty?
Abdominoplasty, also known as "tummy tuck", is a cosmetic surgery procedure to reshape and firm the abdomen. It includes the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen to be able to tighten the muscle of the abdominal wall. This type of surgery is usually sought by women (who are not considering having any more children) and individuals who have abdominal fat deposits which do not retort well to diet and exercise.
Others
What is Botox Injection?
Botox injection is a temporary non-surgical treatment used to smooth out facial wrinkles, lines and scars. Botox injections block the nerve impulses that cause these facial muscles to contract.
What is Botox Injection for?
Over time, emotional expressions such as smiling, laughing and frowning can cause wrinkles in the skin overlying the facial muscles. BOTOX Cosmetic treatments are used to improve the appearance of worry lines, laugh lines, frown lines, crow’s feet, and other wrinkles associated with an animated face. The procedure relaxes the muscles that cause wrinkles so they do not contract.
Botox can easily be used to effect a reduction in frown lines, forehead wrinkles, and crow's feet. Botox can also elevate the eyebrow area that gives a non-surgical brow lift. In the neck, Botox is very effective in the reduction of horizontal neck lines and in the relaxation of vertical mid neck cords, i.e., thickened bands of the underlying platysma muscle. Botox can also reduce lip lines and enhance lip fullness.
Aesthetic Tattooing of Eyebrows, Upper & Lower Eyelids, Lips, Moles
Formerly, eyebrow tattooing was associated with the very vain or fashionable, but today cosmetic tattooing is a common procedure. Permanent cosmetic eyebrow tattoos might also be a solution for individuals who are blind or have vision problems (such as cataracts) and have no way of assessing how they look. If you are allergic to makeup, tattoos can also allow you to enhance your appearance without suffering a physical reaction.
However, desire to look beautiful on your pillow when you wake up in the morning may be a good enough reason to desire cosmetic tattooing. It spares women the trouble of “putting on their eyebrows” in the morning.