Swelling or bruising is usually minimal – but be prepared! Don’t schedule your procedure the day of your big meeting presentation or the night before your job interview. Murphy’s Law will guarantee that you get a bruise with that kind of pressure. Filler treatments are performed using very small needles and although the injection process is…

Every year, plastic surgery gets just a little bit better. Quicker, easier, more sophisticated procedures with results that are more and more natural, for almost every part of the body. Surgery gets more and more “minimally invasive” obviating the need for more extensive procedures and long, involved recoveries. In fact, many surgical procedures have already…

Bruising should not be an issue – but it may be. Botox® treatments are done using a very tiny needle with typically little if any swelling or bruising as a side effect. But taking Motrin, Advil, Alleve, ibuprofen or aspirin beforehand – even 6 or 7 days beforehand – will increase your chances for having…

Perhaps you have experienced firsthand the interesting tax the State of New Jersey has placed on cosmetic procedures. New Jersey Plastic Surgeons and their patients know all too well that this 6% tax applies to things like Botox® treatments, liposuction procedures, and face lifts. Were you aware that this tax also applies to things like…

Are you looking for that flatter, tighterlooking lower abdomen? You’re not alone – cosmetic procedures to get the lower abdomen shaped and sculpted are always among patients’ most popular requests. But which procedure is best and will work the best – for you? There seem to be so many choices and options. Researching them all…

1. To improve confidence, decrease “self-consciousness”–Perhaps, for example, one sees their nose as large or conspicuous and a long-term “confidence underminer”. Whether true or not, whether perceived as such by others or not, if one believes this to be true, it is true. And like a nagging little bug, it is constantly there. Once “fixed”, the…

For those under the age of 35, Botox® may be the ultimate secret to staving off the effects of aging and keeping a younger look for many years. The secret is all in the way Botox® works. Botox® actually attacks the true cause of most facial wrinkles– small tiny muscles just under the facial skin…

Plastic surgeons know that many of their prospective patients will have deep-seated emotional issues tied-in to their concerns about their appearance. It is very important that these issues are considered and understood by both doctor and patient alike. Psychological factors weigh in on goals, expectations, and recovery issues– even the advisability itself of actually proceeding…

Could it be? Liposuction– soon to be a thing of the past? Liposuction has persisted as one of the most popular and satisfying procedures in all of plastic surgery. Year after year since it origins some 25 years ago, the refinements making it even better came: more sophisticated and smaller instruments, the tumescent/local anesthetic technique,…

What is all the buzz in the plastic surgery community about these strange things that you may have heard about called “stem cells”? Exciting research within just the past 3- 4 years has intensified as we’ve learned that the real “fountain of youth” may have actually been discovered in the power of these cells. The…