Weighing in on Weight Loss
Before performing Plastic Surgery, I have always recommended that a patient be at their best or optimal weight both to decrease surgical risks and to improve the outcome. As a medical professional, I have seen first-hand how an increased BMI can have damaging...
Skin School: Winter Skin Care Tips
By Lisa Allen DO Winter can be brutal to our skin, so if there was ever a season to up your skin-care game, it’s now. During the colder weather, our skin quickly dries out and becomes irritated. It gets dry, flaky and can sometimes even crack, but with some simple...
Filler Results Lasting Years Not Months
It can be mind-boggling to sort your way through all the different names of the injectable dermal fillers, what they promise to deliver, how long they will last and how they will make you look. The good news is…there are lots of choices. The bad news is…there are...
Getting To The Bottom Of Buttock Augmentation
Fortunately, fashions change. Shoulder pads and big hair went in and out of the 80’s quickly…thank goodness! This rate of “fashionable” change in today’s culture is certainly influenced by television, movies and social media. Even the Kardashians butted their way...
Cellulite…Treating the Appearance!
Everybody in Texas knows what damage a hailstorm can do to your roof, but I get lots of questions from my patients about how the hail damage got in their thighs! Cellulite- the name sounds like a frightening medical condition…but it is really nothing more than...
Facelift: Looking better…not botched!
Nobody wants to be the Hollywood facelift disaster where they turn a pretty good-looking person into someone their own Mother does not recognize. The good news is you can easily avoid this by taking a few simple steps: #1 Find a board certified plastic surgeon who...
Taking a load off your shoulders: Breast Reduction
Breast reduction candidates are often some of my happiest patients. They present for their appointment with complaints of pain in their back, neck & shoulders, deep grooves from bra straps, skin irritation beneath breasts, and limitation of activities due to...
Breast Implant Maintenance
Beauty requires maintenance. Having grown up with four sisters I know this to be a fact! I often wondered why they call the chemicals that made their hair curly a “permanent”, when it only lasted 3 months. Back in the early 1980’s breast augmentation surgery...
The Eyes Have It
Eyelid Lift or Blepharoplasty Tired of holding your eyebrows up to put on eye shadow or do you need a fresher look to remain competitive on the job? You are not alone. Poets describe the eyes as the window to the soul, but nobody waxes eloquent about the extra long...
Are Those Real?
Swimsuit season is almost here…at least it is for those of us in Texas. It is never too early to start thinking about your summer vacation to the beach, spending weekends at the lake or taking the kids poolside. The racks at the department stores are filling up...
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